Fusion Garage Grid 10

This is pretty simple: although Fusion Garage is to be commended for developing a novel new operating system with a slew of interesting and innovative UI features — something few other companies have ever done — the Grid10 as an integrated package of hardware and software simply doesn’t measure up. The display alone is so poor as to utterly ruin the user experience, and Grid OS lacks the level of polish, stability, and performance it needs to compete against iOS and Honeycomb. (And it certainly doesn’t have the price tag to match up with the Amazon Kindle Fire.) That said, it’s clear Fusion Garage (and its mysterious investors) are committed to developing a serious tablet competitor — we’ll see what another year brings.

Read original review at The Verge.

Though innovative, Fusion Garage's Grid10 tablet ultimately is severely held back by the user interface of its GridOS. This complex, inefficient UI, with its ridiculously unnecessary two-finger swipe navigation, is clunky to use, performs sluggishly, and feels unfinished. There is potential here, but not enough warrant recommending this tablet.Also, the Grid10 has terribly spotty Wi-Fi connection rates and an insultingly low-quality camera, and is really uncomfortable to hold. The fact that Fusion Garage is charging $300 for this tablet is offensive. There are much better ways to spend $300 on a tablet.

Read original review at Cnet.

Let’s put aside the software/performance issues for a second. If that wasn’t holding the Grid10 back, would I recommend it to anyone? It’s only $299 — $200 less than the iPad and most Android Honeycomb tablets — nicely designed, has a high resolution display, a nice user interface, and will run many popular apps. Despite these pros, I’m don’t see a big advantage over Android tablets here. The Grid10 doesn’t do much that the tablet next door can’t. And it has enough drawbacks to give me serious pause. I can’t see it doing well amongst mainstream users, though hard core enthusiasts and tinkerers will probably like fooling around with it. It’s the type of tablet that can shine if you put enough effort into it. Most consumers don’t want effort, they want easy.

Read original review at GottaBeMobile.