We got a flurry of news regarding the CrunchPad, er the JooJoo tablet. It finally hit the FCC to show of what it’s made of. It has a non-removable battery and will carry the older Atom N270 CPU but paired with a NVIDIA Ion for graphics capabilities.

Aside from WiFi, the tablet also has a 3G modem in it which means it might come in two versions like the iPad – one with 3G and one without. It also confirms that the JooJoo will have a measly 4GB of internal storage.

Further digging revealed that the tablet runs on Windows Vista in some test setup photos though how the 4GB storage will take such a bloated OS is beyond me. You won’t see this in the production model though, as it will run Linux but the company behind the tablet, Fusion Garage, was kind enough to share some screenshots of its new user interface.

It now has a grid of icons on top of a user-customizable wallpaper. New features include two-finger scrolling and single-finger panning, two keyboard modes for both one-handed and touch-typing use. The chassis of the JooJoo has been changed from black to champagne. We have more pics below.

source wireless goodness, Engadget

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Back in July of last year, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch proposed that a “dead simple Web tablet” be built for about $200 so he can surf the Web and do other lightweight tasks like send instant messages and make quick calls with Skype on the go. Fast forward to April 2009 and this concept for a cheap mobile Internet device looks like it’s closer to becoming a reality than most people are willing to think. While some might say that the TechCrunch Tablet (a.k.a. the “CrunchPad”) is nothing but vaporware that will never see the light of day, these photos (along with several others) prove otherwise.

Pictured above is a new prototype of the CrunchPad that touts a 12-inch capacitive screen, Intel Atom processor, a custom WebKit-based browser and pretty much all of the specs that were first considered at the product’s conception. Michael Arrington is careful to note that they are still not ready to launch this device and they can’t put the pin on a price point, but whenever they’re ready, I think we just might see another revolution in the computer industry. Or maybe not. Either way, this seems like an interesting product, and I can’t wait to try it out.

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