JooJoo runs a custom OS created by Fusion Garage, which means it’s unlikely to have the cool apps from independent developers that made the iPhone a hit or juiced the PC ecosystem.
How custom is it if it runs Flash? Gnash is not powerful enough to recompile across platforms and play video off of Hulu. And I don't think they have the binary-translation technology to convert the flash-player binary, or even flash swf/flv files, to their own binary format (if they did, they wouldn't be in the gadget manufacturing business; they would be entitled to double digits in Adobe's shares/market-share.)
So, Wired, what Linux or Windows Mobile based OS is JooJoo really running? You couldn't get your hands on the device just long enough to find out? Tried about:config or similar tricks? How about finger-printing the hell out of it with nmap until you arrive at a ballpark?
They are probably just running a browser directly on the framebuffer (no X) on a Linux kernel. It seems a lot can pass for a "custom OS" these days. "Custom app launcher" seems more appropriate.
freebsd can also run flash pretty well too, so it might be bsd based too... I haven't tried hulu on my system yet, but most flash sites work pretty well so I'd be surprised if hulu doesn't work.
How custom is it if it runs Flash? Gnash is not powerful enough to recompile across platforms and play video off of Hulu. And I don't think they have the binary-translation technology to convert the flash-player binary, or even flash swf/flv files, to their own binary format (if they did, they wouldn't be in the gadget manufacturing business; they would be entitled to double digits in Adobe's shares/market-share.)
So, Wired, what Linux or Windows Mobile based OS is JooJoo really running? You couldn't get your hands on the device just long enough to find out? Tried about:config or similar tricks? How about finger-printing the hell out of it with nmap until you arrive at a ballpark?