The Fusion Garage Grid 10 tablet wasn’t exactly a success with critics… or with anyone else. The company went out of business earlier this year. But Engadget Chinese reports that Taiwanese device maker Compal is giving the hardware new life and calling it the Compal Smart Pad PBJ40. The move makes some sense, since the Grid 10’s […]
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Fusion Garage goes belly up, owes creditors $40 million
When we last checked in on Fusion Garage, Brad had declared the company only mostly dead. Today, however, it appears as though it’s time to put on the toe tag and zip up the bag: Fusion Garage is done. On January 20th, the company’s creditors will be sitting down with representatives from PricewaterhouseCoopers and taking […]
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Fusion Garage is only mostly dead
Fusion Garage may have lost its PR team, its lawyers, and for a brief period earlier this week its website. But the company’s not quite dead yet. The makers of the Grid10 and ill-fated JooJoo tablets are seeking additional funding to stay afloat. In an interview, founder Chandra Rathakrishnan tells Engadget that: The company has already moved more […]
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Fusion Garage hits more speedbumps, Grid10 tablet may be as dead as the JooJoo
Fusion Garage doesn’t have a great track record of delivering high quality products. Last year the company generated a lot of headlines with its JooJoo tablet (which started out its life as the CrunchPad before the company parted ways with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington). When the tablet finally hit the market it was widely panned […]
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This is what a dissected Fusion Garage Grid 10 tablet looks like
The Fusion Garage Grid 10 is a tablet with a 10 inch display and an unusual operating system that’s based on Google Android. It has a custom home screen, web browser, and suite of applications, but the tablet can run many Android applications. It sells for $299. Fusion Garage introduced the tablet in August, but […]
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Fusion Garage Grid 10 software update coming within 4 weeks
The Fusion Garage Grid 10 is a tablet with a 10 inch display and an unusual operating system called GridOS. Sure, the software is based on Android and it can run most Android applications, but the idea behind GridOS was to offer something different — including support for gesture-based navigation, a highly customizable home screen […]
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Fusion Garage Grid10 tablet reviewed, found wanting
The Grid 10 is the second tablet from Fusion Garage… the company behind the ill-fated JooJoo. But while the JooJoo had a unique browser-based operating system and no support for third party apps, the Grid 10 is a 10 inch tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and an operating system based on […]
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Fusion Garage Grid 10 tablet price drops to $299 (down from $499)
The first tablet from Fusion Garage running the new GridOS software was scheduled to start shipping this week. But just a few days before launch the company has knocked about $200 off the price tag and the ship date has been pushed a few weeks until October 1st. Now you can pre-order a Grid 10 […]
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Fusion Garage Grid 10 tablet up for pre-order
The Fusion Garage Grid 10 tablet is expected to ship on September 15th, but it’s already up for pre-order from the Fusion Garage website or from Amazon.com. The 10 inch tablet has a starting price of $499 for a WiFi-only model or $599 for a model with WiFi and 3G. The Grid 10 is an […]
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Fusion Garage unveils the Grid 10 tablet, makes android look hard
Fusion Garage made a name for itself with the JooJoo tablet, a disappointing tablet that launched in 2010. Now the company is back with a new tablet called the Grid 10 and a smartphone called the Grid 4 — and they run a new Android-based operating system called GridOS. The Grid 10 goes up for […]