Armour Home and chumby® today announced that the two companies will work in cooperation to bring the critically acclaimed chumby device to Europe. Armour will distribute chumby in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Glenn McClelland, Armour Home’s Managing Director commented:
“The chumby device is a truly innovative product that is deservedly enjoying growing success in North America, Japan, and Australia, and I’m completely confident we can mirror that success here in the UK and across Europe.”
Stephen L. Tomlin, CEO and founder of chumby, added: “We were approached by a number of UK distributors, but Armour’s reputation and established relationships in the appropriate channels to market made them the stand out choice.”
About the size of a grapefruit, chumby is one of the most versatile and lifestyle-friendly internet enabled devices on the market today. It takes your favourite parts of the internet and delivers them to you in a familiar, always on, always-fresh format. Chumby boasts a large and growing base of content, including the latest news, weather, stock quotes, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, thousands of streaming internet radio stations as well as the ability to share photos, widgets and e-cards with family and friends. The catalogue of over 1,200 widgets include ‘Facebook Status,’ enabling you update your own Facebook status and view and comment on your friends’ status messages, and ‘Twitter’, which keeps you up to date with the latest tweets from people you are following on Twitter.
Chumby provides a window into your internet life that lives outside your desktop, so content has a place to play away from your everyday world of documents and spreadsheets. Just plug in your chumby, connect to your wireless network and use your computer to create a line-up of favourites from over 1,200 widgets in 30 different categories, with new ones arriving all the time.
Chumby measures about 13 cm wide, 10 cm tall, and 8 cm deep, comes in a soft casing and in a variety of colours including: black, varsity blue, latte and pearl. In addition, chumby owners may express their personality by decorating their devices with the included chumby charms (additional charms are available to purchase at www.chumby.com) or their own “bling.”
