Barnes and Noble Nook gets reviewed, JooJoo gets confused
It's an over-promise / under-deliver sorta day in technology, first with FusionGarage, the partner company in the over-hyped CrunchPad, taking the reigns and unveiling the JooJoo, a $500 tablet computer designed for surfing the web... and that's it. Obviously, we're a tad skeptical on the device, but we haven't seen it yet in person, so maybe it'll blow us away once we do. Or not.
On the other side of the coin, that is products that actually exist, Barnes and Noble's Nook ebook reader isn't totally baked either, with reports that the software is laggy, and doesn't work without bugs. Micheal Gartenberg, our guest from Interpret, says he's sick of being the paying customer for beta testing products, but still hopes to see something interesting from the device.
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Nook, Kindle, Sony readers compared: Holiday e-book picks
One of the categories we've been fawning over for the entire year is e-readers. Their lovely e-ink displays are so easy on the eyes that with the holidays approaching, we wanted to pick the perfect unit. To do that, Eric Sandine, Iyaz Akhtar and myself strike up a convo about the ones that we're most excited about, and the ones we're least likely to pick up. The downside? Some of them still haven't officially hit the streets, or aren't available because they're sold out. The upside? We're still going to talk about our favs, in hopes we'll get some sort of holiday IOU, or the like.
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