The JooJoo Diaries: Day 4

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for—drumroll please—it's time for another instalment from our series of articles about the Fusion Garage JooJoo.

Day 4: Surf's Up?

Dear JooJoo diary,

Today, things really got interesting, as it was time to test JooJoo's web surfing abilities. And as this is to be the tablet's main selling point, it was a very, very important moment. In fact, without its Wi-Fi connection, dear JooJoo would be nothing, nothing I tell you, as its USB port doesn't support data transfer. JooJoo doesn't like films or music, just surfing.

The homescreen is covered with pretty little icons. Don't be fooled though, these are direct links to websites rather than applications. You'll find easy-access icons for Facebook, Twitter, CNN, Hulu, Pandora, Amazon, Wordpress, GMail, The Weather Channel, Yahoo!, BBC News, FlickR and YouTube. Some of these sites are only available to US residents though, and I couldn't, for example, get any further than the homepage of the excellent video streaming site Hulu.com.



You can't make your own icon-style links either, although Fusion Garage assures us it'll teach JooJoo how to do this soon. There is, however, a bookmark system for marking pages you've already visited in the JooJoo browser: just slide your finger down the left of the screen to access it. By tapping the JooJoo bar (which pops up at the top when you slide your finger down the screen), a keyboard and a search tool appear, where you can enter a URL or search via Google, Wiki or Yahoo Search.



Pages are quick to load, even with a weak Wi-Fi signal (as was the case in our video). JooJoo is certainly as good as The Other Tablet in this field, maybe even better for some sites. Web page multitasking is possible too, as you can have several pages open at once. You move from one page to the next in a spin-round carousel menu with all pages remaining active. That's practical for surfing to music with Deezer running in the background, for example. This tablet is also compatible with Flash, but I'll tell you more about that tomorrow.

Tomorrow, in the grand finale of the JooJoo diaries, I'll be telling all about multimedia.

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> The JooJoo Diaries: Day 3

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