About a month ago we got a chance to play a new tablet device called the Grid10. It’s built by Fusion Garage, the same guys who made the colossal failure known as the JooJoo. When it was announced, we were lead to believe that it would ship during the middle of September for $500. That’s now changed. Fusion Garage now claims the Grid10 will come out in October, and they’ve also lobbed $200 off the price tag for some odd reason … probably because they recognize no one is going go buy their device when it’s priced exactly the same as Apple’s iPad, or because they saw the amazing success the HP TouchPad had when it got cheaper. To be perfectly honest, we have huge doubts that the Grid10 will even ship, and if it does, then it’s going to be in quantities so minuscule that you’ll have a better chance of being struck by lightning than seeing one in the wild.
The bigger problem here is companies who frequently fail to meet publicly stated deadlines. We’ve seen this recently with Verizon Wireless, who finally introduced the Droid Bionic after first showing it off in January of this year. In the 8 months between showing the Bionic to the press and then offering it consumers, Verizon changed the physical design, the guts of the device, and who knows what else. It’s an awesome phone, don’t get us wrong, but we can’t understand why companies repeatedly do this to themselves. Nokia used to do this on a regular basis, but they’re getting much better now. And of course the golden standard is Apple, who never talks about a product unless they’re going to ship it less than a month later. The only exception to that is of course the iPhone and iPad.
Anyway, if you’re seriously considering picking up a Grid10, let us know who your drug dealer is, because he has some amazing sh*t.