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Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet?
- jpwagner 18y agoAn iphone that does not fit in my pocket...where do i sign up?
- DenisM 18y agoSarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Kindly refrain.
- jpwagner 18y agoApparently Oscar Wilde said that. I thought puns were the lowest form of wit. I also just read that wit is the highest form of sarcasm. Does that make puns a high form of sarcasm?
- nomoresecrets 18y agoPuns may be bad, but poems are verse.
- ibsulon 18y agoIpod Touch without the music built in... even better! Actually, I'd prefer this to a netbook, especially if it isn't locked down.
- chime 18y agoEven at $300, I would buy 10 of these for my company. Touch-screen + WiFi + Browser = ability for me to get rid of every single bulky PC on our assembly line. If it has USB, then I can hook up a barcode scanner and completely change how our process works. Right now, it is such a hassle to setup a PC with touch-screen and deal with maintenance etc. Good touch-screen LCDs cost $300 at least and it's a pain to deal with the drivers. Netbooks are good but I don't need a keyboard and don't want to deal with a full-fledged OS. Tablets are perfect but so expensive and a hassle to lock-down. Given all the time in the world, I'm sure most of us could rig up something under $500 similar to what the Crunchpad tablet aims to be. But I'd rather get a stable/solid system that I can easily buy more of when needed. crossing fingers
- noonespecial 18y agoI was kind of hoping the picwing guys would get it together and I could use smartframes for this kind of thing. They seemed closer to a real product.
- jerf 18y agoIf the topmost port in the fourth picture of http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/techcrunch-tablet-update-prototype-b/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/techcrunch-tablet-updat... is not a USB port, I don't know what it is. Since a barcode scanner is basically a keyboard, you almost certainly don't even need any extra support from them. I think you're in luck. (Also, I don't want to make a separate post: That link also says "we were aiming for $200, it looks like $299 is more realistic".)
- sjs382 18y agoI'm also crossing my fingers. This would make my startup MUCH more easy to get going.
- noodle 18y agoregardless of arrington's involvement, i really like this idea and really would like to see it have at least some success. it could only mean good things for the direction of netbooks.
- jacoblyles 18y agoLooks like the world's biggest iPhone.
- hotpockets 18y agoI am going to buy one just to use it as a huge novelty phone gag.
- lsb 18y agoIt looks so slick, and then picture 4 is the power adapter with a guy holding a soda can in his crotch at the top of the frame. What's amazing about Apple (from whom they seem to have taken packaging design cues) is not an initial sheen of beauty, but that they keep the beauty going throughout the experience.
- rms 18y agoWhere are they getting the touch screens?
- wmf 18y agoDoes it matter? Aren't they a commodity?
- rms 18y agoA year ago when this was conceived, no, not really, but it looks like the price has indeed come down sufficiently to make this viable. http://interstore.com/product/139-1460/348348-001+LCD+KIT+R/348348-001_-_HP_TC1000_and_TC1100_10.4_XGA_1024x768_Laptop_Touchscreen_LCD_Module_Kit_Complete_Refurbished.html?ref=base http://interstore.com/product/139-1460/348348-001+LCD+KIT+R/... is one I found.
- icey 18y agoIf this thing is real, I'm going to be buying more than a few of them.
- merrick33 18y agoso where exactly is the address to his posterous account? I only knew of the techcrunch.posterous.com account.
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- dchest 18y agoPhotos were there (at techcrunch.posterous.com), but it seems like he removed them.
- jrnkntl 18y agoAs stated in the comments over there: it's a mockup. And I'm pretty sure it is, been a while since an update on the crunchpads and all of a sudden they're in production? Nahhh, don't think so.
- st3fan 18y agoI'll believe it when I have one in my hands :-)
- nanexcool 18y agoIf the $200 price tag is real, I see myself putting one of these babies in my bathroom in front of the toilet, another one in my kitchen. Imagine one in your living room hooked up to your media center/TV/etc.
- icey 18y agoI'll hang one in my garage for when I'm out working on something... At 200 bucks, if it gets a little motor oil on the screen, I'm not going to worry about it too much.
- andr 18y agohttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/techcrunch-tablet-update-prototype-b/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/techcrunch-tablet-updat... Info on an earlier prototype + video. 3 months ago the software was pretty workable and the had the hardware, albeit thicker than it should've been. So it seems perfectly plausible that it's ready now.
- patrickg-zill 18y agoThey should add two white knobs along the bottom ... and an accelerometer that allows you to hold it over your head and shake it to put it into screensaver mode ...
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- catone 18y agoTechCrunch would never respect a company asking them to take down leaked photos... and these weren't leaked, they were published publicly. By which I mean: Can someone who has local copies of these put them up somewhere? (Dustin?) I'd be interested to see them. Also, not sure what the netbook comment in the post really means. It was pretty evident how big netbooks were going to be after the first Eee PC went for sale, which was late 2007. But that doesn't really matter, since Arrington's tablet isn't really anything like a netbook (at least, not as they're traditionally defined now). We're going to start to see a lot of cheap, touchscreen tablet PCs running Linux and Android (and maybe Windows 7), though, over the next couple of years.
- wave 18y agoIt is nicely designed. Here is what it looks like: http://zee.posterous.com/did-arrington-actually-pull-off-the-crunchpad http://zee.posterous.com/did-arrington-actually-pull-off-the...
- dcurtis 18y agoIf I was going to launch something like this, I'd want to keep it secret until it was ready for market. Arrington obviously made a mistake by posting the photos, and it ruined the surprise. I took them down to be nice. TechCrunch has never done me harm. But I put them back up because they seem to have propagated everywhere now.
- jonursenbach 18y agoNo he leaked them on purpose to drive up interest in the project. What we're all doing right now is exactly what he wants.
- jrnkntl 18y agoWow, the pictures are already taken off.
- erlanger 18y agoReminds me of the original iBook...antiquated design.
- jacoblyles 18y agoI would buy one if I could take hand-written notes on it. That's the ability that I most envy my friends with tablets for.
- noaharc 18y agoI think it is astounding that Arrington (and everyone else on the team -- I'm sure there are many) was able to pull this off. A lot of people have bones to pick with him, and he can certainly be a little brusque (speaking as a former TechCrunch intern), but he is one incredibly capable guy -- a consistently excellent writer, bitingly funny commentator, and, apparently, a mean product designer/manager. I almost wish TechCrunch didn't take up so much of his time -- there's probably a lot more he could be doing.
- ktharavaad 18y agoI want one.
- shimi 18y agoWhat's the difference between that and a Windows Tablet (apart from the price)?
- simonk 18y agoBesides it running on Linux not a whole lot. But its $200 that was the whole point.
- blasdel 18y agoCapacitive touchscreen! I was pleasantly surprised, I thought it would be resistive. Almost all Windows Tablets have inductive digitizers, where you can only use a special stylus (like a Wacom), but you get angle/distance/pressure information. Most new Tablet PCs also cost 6-10 times more, and have awful battery life because they are overpowered.
- vaksel 18y agoI actually own crunchpad.com, wonder if I should do anything with it
- netcan 18y agoredirected it to the blog post?
- vaksel 18y agoalready doing that
- veteran 18y agonot if you want to make some money out of it..you need to justify you own domain because your have business tied to it and nothing to do with their brand..and then only you can hold it/may be later sell it..careful, arrington is from domain industry so it is tough party on other end ..so be smart in how you handle.. (assuming you want money..) if not then it is pretty easy just send email
- kirse 18y agoI'd agree with this guy. WIPO is ridiculously quick to snipe away your domain name and give it to someone with a trademark if you don't have a legitimate business or use for the name. I would highly recommend creating at least some fake company or intention out of the page so you can say you wanted the domain for something else. With a name like "Crunch-Pad" I'd suggest making it a simple Web 2.0 to-do list like pat.io. At least that way you could let them buy it off you if they were interested.
- vaksel 18y agowell a) I registered the domain about 6 months before Techcrunch started calling the thing crunchpad, so they don't really have any claim to the name. In fact it wasn't them who came up with the name itself in the first place, it was one of the comments. b) Plenty of companies make the same mistake of failing to register a domain name. If Apple didn't sue over something like iPhone and Dell over Adamo, I doubt there is much of a leg to stand on. + There is no trademark yet for crunchpad Funnily enough, that story was posted on Techcrunch only a few weeks ago: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/28/dell-belatedly-buys-adamocom-domain-for-its-hot-notebook/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/28/dell-belatedly-buys-ada... c) I don't really plan to bend Arrington over the barrel on this. But I think it'll play better if he contacts me, instead of me just emailing out of the blue offering the domain. Since we all know how unlikely it is to get a response from Techcrunch
- mattmaroon 18y agoNow I just have to figure out how to waterproof it so I can read The Economist in the tub.
- BRadmin 18y agoCrunchGear post about it: "Leaks are always hardest when they hit home." http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/09/crunchtablet-hits-the-net-a-little-early/ http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/09/crunchtablet-hits-the-n...
- rjurney 18y agoFor $200 a pop I can tile one wall of my office with them for $16,000. That sounded smart before I typed it.