Notion Ink's Adam tablet - Are you planning to get one?

[propellen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGUKHDBoTEc

[asiafish]

No.

[t140568]

I've been watching NotionInk very closely for the last year and a half hoping that they would eventually release the Adam. I even submitted logos for a competition they had awhile ago. Once I received my Barnes&Noble NookColor for Christmas, I completely lost interest in the Adam. My NC is insanely cheap for an Android tablet (once given root privileges) and, especially for one that has decent hardware. The Adam held my interest mostly because of the PixelQi screen, but it's price tag is a bit steep for me. Still a nice piece of hardware though.

[Temetka]

++ for the Nook Color.

It is here now.

It is available now, in stores.

It is well designed, easy to use and easy to hold.

The iPad is too heavy and too big. The Galaxy is too thick, and too too heavy. I want an e-reader that runs a full fledged OS in a device around 1/4" thick and looks good. Most of the other tablets I have seen are either clunky, expensive, made out of crap components and in general are good examples of what not to do.

The Nook get most of what I want in a portable device just right. I would love both forward and rear facing cameras so I can use it as a pseudo microscope to take pictures of things, or to take pictures of my friends and families. I don't web chat with anyone, so a camera facing me is well, useless.

As far as the OS is concerned, slap a *NIX variant of some sort on there so I can root the device and we are good. I love Windows 7 and think its awesome. I do not want it on my tablets. I want it on my laptop and desktop, nowhere else (servers included).

The adam tablet is vaporware until I can go to Staples and buy it. If it's more than $300 then they have missed the mark. You want to out iPad the iPad? Produce a device that is good enough and at a price that is affordable to someone making $12 and hour and you have a device that will outsell the iPad by a large margin. The iPad's main thing holding it int he market now is it's ability to connect to the iTunes store. I don't care if you hate Apple, or love them, but you have to give them credit for the iTunes store.

What the non iPad market needs is a similar store used by the other competitors. No I don't mean a Samsung store, a Google Store, a B&N store and so on. What I mean is that there should be the iTunes store and 1 or 2 major competitors for it. If you want to make the devs happy, create a tool that can write apps for both iOS and Android and watch the dollars flow in quicker than Amateur night at the local watering hole.

So will I buy an Adam? No. Why? Too clunky. Poor choice of components (minus the screen), TBA pricing (which usually means more than $300) and its too thick. This is 2011 people, not 1997. Gimme thin. Gimme power. Gimme freedom. Gimme cheap (price wise, not component wise) and I will buy 1 for each member of my immediate family.

[automobus]

Gimme thin. Gimme power. Gimme freedom. Gimme cheap

Power and cheap do not mix, unless in tremendous quantity. Freedom and cheap can mix, but it does not usually result in "thin". Anyway, you made me remember a comment by acerbic on GottaBeMobile.

It's just extremely frustrating and amazing that in today's America you gotta gripe, beg and plead for a chance to give your money to somebody, anybody for a product you desire.
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It just seems that if one is tentatively introduced and it turns out to be 0.57" thick instead of the divine diamond standard 0.50", some navel lint of an iFad licker starts yipping "chunkyfail! chunkyfail!" and the gutless wimps kill the project.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2010/06/22 ... tablet-pc/