14 DAY TRIAL // TabCo is a relatively new company on the tablet market, one that spent the past months offering teasers about its upcoming slate, and it looks like it finally came out into the open, with information about both itself and its invention.
It is not overly common for a company to fade into the annals of obscurity only to reemerge with a different name and renewed force.
Then again, it not not overly uncommon for something like this to happen, as made fairly clear by a certain Fusion Garage.
The last we hard of the company was last year, when it said it was preparing the JooJoo 2, one with a new OS, among other things.
After that, not much was heard anymore, though a new company did emerge, TabCo by name and with the Grid 10 tablet to promote.
Now, the company has come clean in regards to its identity and what it expects the Grid to have that will appeal to prospective customers.
It is no secret that the JooJoo was not exactly the brightest star on the slate market, having suffered harsh criticism.
Company leader Chandra Rathakrishnan, thus, decided to reform the company under a new name and do the same to the tablet, to give it fair odds at recognition.
Based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip), the Grid 10 has a display with a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels, HD as it were.
There is also a 1.3 megapixel webcam, a microSD slot (to add storage over the built-in 16 GB) and the Grid Shop Fusion Garage-specific app store, which will open up to applications soon.
Fortunately, Android apps will be supported as well, what with the Grid OS being based on the Android kernel.
Set to ship via Amazon starting on September 15, it will bear a price of $499, no different form that of most other such products. WiFi will be present, along with, for an extra $100, 3G.