Notion Ink Adam Hands on at CES 2011

http://www.netbooknews.com While stopping by the Pixel Qi booth at CES 2011 we were pleasantly surprised to run into the Notion Ink team. We scored some a walk through by Rohan Shravan and a bit of hands on time our self. The Notion Ink Adam as been one of the most anticipated tablets of CES since we saw it behind glass at last years CES. Its sporting a dual core with a NVIDIA Tegra 250 chip, 1GB of ram, the low power consumption Pixel Qi screen, a 3.2 MP auto focus swivel camera, mini HDMI and even a mini USB port! What keeps the tablet looking special is Notion Ink's custom software. Eden, the multitasking UI, splits the screen into three panes, and intelligently uses the dual-core NVIDIA processor to balance power and battery life. For instance, the CPU shows up as a single core in the Android "About" page; Eden won't activate the second core if there's still capacity in the first core.

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Science & Technology

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• notion ink adam
• android tablet
• nvidia tegra 2

[ShynePoe33]

the indian guy is real cool

[IndivisiblePrinciple]

@mnguyea Actually statistics show that people dont buy devices just b/c they are pure android. And dont get me wrong, all these big company custom UIs ruine devices but EDEN is the only one that actually ADDS to pure Android instead of impairs it. As far as the XOOM, the only thing it has going for it is that Google chose it to showcase the pure OS. Hardware wise it is pretty generic. But NI has said they will upgrade to 3.0 when it is available. When 3.0 comes ADAM will use the Android Market

[ecm86]

Bravo.. Looks awesome.. This guy rocks. This guy may be onto something that could bridge the gap between dedicated ebook readers and tablets.. Hope he sells a ton and improves on this model further with another gen. I would love to see one of these and play with it.

[minthead12]

where can i order one!?

[BromeliadBrendan]

Lots of reviews look at specs, performance and place importance on how much the thing can do - who cares? The reason I am buying one of these is to support this guys dream. Imagine designing and marketing your own pc and competing with the big brands? What a thrill!

Go Rohan!

[WWoodyW]

looks pretty nice. I don't care too much for the form factor. Bezels kind of big and body isn't uniform. For $375 for the cheapest model it looks like a good deal. Considering it, but I kinda want to wait till i hear more about pricing on xoom wifi only, acer, and asus tabs

[thelegendarypaki]

@mnguyea besides what InvisiblePrinciple already mentioned, we don't know when Xoom will launch, while notion Ink has already sold their first batch of Adams.  What sets Adam apart or me is the pixelQi display (for ebooks). I am buying one as soon as they make them available again.

[iLuVeHeNdRiX]

the guy put in a bomb in their thats why is he telling him its really cool cuz he wants him to buy it lol

[shannonpeg]

I think the standard look of android is dull. HTC does a great job with its sense UI. Notion ink has done the same,when honeycombe is available all I want from it is the market so the apps work correctly on a 10 inch device. Can't wait to get mine in the next few weeks hopefully fingers crossed lol

[nobodyshearing]

the ui ruins it all

[iamcanadian2222]

Glad to see you guys actually got hands-on and provided some feedback on the weight / grip.