gottabemobile.com - 16 days ago
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crunchpad Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Mike Arrington’s CrunchPad tablet may have run into delays due to cost problems. One story we heard from a few people on a recent trip to California is that the CrunchPad is supposedly being delayed — perhaps indefinitely — by increasing ...
businessinsider.com - 17 days ago
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CrunchPad hamstrung by unexpectedly high production costs?
SlashGear —
... the actual price would be more like $399 based on tips from suppliers.
Other rumors have suggested that the project is on hold until Google Chrome OS – which will be very web-centric – is available, rather than using a custom Linux OS and UI as originally intended. It’s early in November still, so we could still see a launch pre-holidays; whether it’s the same affordable device many of us were looking forward to remains to be seen.
[via GottaBeMobile] ...
‘In Other News…’ November 8th
UMPCPortal —
Here’s the weekly rundown of items that we posted to the middle column on UMPCPortal, our ‘Other News’ section. It’s all good UMPC and MID-related stuff that, in most cases, we didn’t write about as a main news item. ...
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