Comments on: Will Notion Ink’s Adam Be the iPad for Geeks?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:38:08 +0000

What I'm really curious to know is Kevin's and James's personal opinion of the Adam and the iPad vs Adam debate before the new gadget giddiness of having the iPad takes over and fogs things up a bit tomorrow.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:56:45 +0000

To be blunt, The Adam (and similar upcoming devices to follow) will be the iPad for intelligent people. I know it's popular to bash the iPad, but in all seriousness, this simply runs circles around it, at half the price.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:03:54 +0000

Android is an open source version of linux with an app store that isn't cesored by its makers....sooo yea...

By: Gujar

Gujar — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:24:38 +0000

It is starting at $325 which is even better. Not everyone engages in daylight robbery like Apple does. I would certainly buy one or two.

By: SARGE

SARGE — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:54:29 +0000

If it has writing recognition and also has the ability to read books espically college course books I could defintely see this out doing the IPad

By: Ziyad Dadabhoy

Ziyad Dadabhoy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:50:14 +0000

If Adam is running on Android i don't think that will be a problem especially after watching the video shown. Adam knows its market is tech enthusiasts who want something better than what Apple is offering and so they chose Android: an open source software which will allow people to build many apps. Plus we saw that gesture program and i think Adam will release their own API because they will have a custom UI and that will further enable development.

By: Chris Davies

Chris Davies — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:37:33 +0000

We spoke with Notion Ink about this and they confirmed that, in just the past day or two, they'd been green-lighted by Adobe for Flash support on the Adam.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:27:25 +0000

I feel the major stumbling block to the Adam is it's lack of developer tools mothers can use to write applications. Apple has never had the best set of hardware and UI features but the simplicity of their UI and developer tools has I feel helped fuel their rapid entry into this highly competitive market.

I see this continuing with the iPad.

The German's are hoping to deliver Dalvik Turbo but native code vs byte code hasn't been what is holding back Assassin's Creed II Discovery and other titles from coming to Android.

I am curious why Apple didn't go with Pixel Qi's display though. Everything I've read and seen seems to support it being high quality and low power. I'm thinking Pixel Qi's idea of "production quantities" and Apple's needs didn't match up.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:09:08 +0000

Oh, and Adam will have Flash, too.

Are we sure about that? Last I saw, Adobe had just announced that only Android 2.1 devices will get Flash 10.1, and I've yet to hear solid confirmation that any Android tablets will even be running 2.0.

I think that ultimately access to the Android Market and other Google apps will be a bigger determinant of the success/failure of Android tablets than the presence/absence of Flash.

By: Chris Davies

Chris Davies — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:31:09 +0000

Thanks for the link, Kevin. I agree that we don't know enough about Apple's A4 chipset to draw any firm conclusions as yet. However, out of the box the Adam is going to soundly trounce the iPad when it comes to media performance - you'll get 576p at most from Apple's tablet, using the optional component cables, whereas the Notion Ink machine has HDMI for full 1080p HD.

Oh, and Adam will have Flash, too :)