Armour Home chums-up with Chumby

Armour Home has inked a deal to distribute an internet-enabled device called Chumby throughout the UK and much of Europe.

About the size of a grapefruit, the £139.95 Chumby presents online content such as news, weather, stock quotes, celebrity gossip, podcasts, music, 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 Facebook status and view and comment on friends’ status messages, and ‘Twitter,’ which keeps users up to date with the latest tweets from people they are following on Twitter.

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.”

Armour Home will take Chumby to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.