MWC 2010: Why is Notion Ink's Adam an iPad Killer?

Adam and eve are not even in the scene! But the Apple has is already in the tree, ripe and eatable! By the time Adam plan to eat the forbidden apple, there will be hundreds of trees full of Apples! and Adam just crumbles with thinking he has sinned! But so many out there talking about Adam's Sin!

Plus and this is a BIG plus for the Adam - it has NO ecosystem. I think that I will rush right our and buy one and watch nothing on it. Nothing is great it occupies most of my time. I just cannot think of what I did before I had nothing to do. Perhaps I'll but one for each of my family!

is this an Indian company? And Techtree has not even mentioned it??

This is exactly what I wanted so consider one sold. I'm buying one. Comparing anything with Apple brings out the fanboys and gets media attention, but it's a pointless exercise. Apple doesn't really care for consumers outside its small geographical fan base. Their products are expensive and not meant for the 'common man'. There is huge market and need for ebook readers that are open and cost effective for college students in developing countries. If you start comparing yourself with Apple which produces designer computing products for a niche segment in advanced countries, you're chasing the wrong ball. The real competition for Notion will be offerings from the likes of HP and Samsung. I'm really happy to see a product like this coming from India and wish you guys all the best! Apple iPad is not going to be launched in India soon and personally I don't care for either iTunes or NYT like content. I can get all the music and books I want.

The pixelqi technology is an innovation indeed, but Manu, you have to be completely BLIND not to see how Multi-Touch technology is the natural evolution of single point touch interfaces. It's not just for zooming in and out with two fingers. It makes typing on the screen possible by being able to hold the shift key while typing capitalized letters. Using three fingers to drag an entire graphic object to another location as opposed to using two fingers to zoom in and out or directional panning of the canvas. It makes gaming possible with some games requiring that you use two or even three fingers for specific actions and tasks. Multi-touch enables a world of potential for intuitive application control. We've only brushed the tip of the iceberg thus far, being that the technology is still only a few years old. The lack of Multi-touch is huge.

Yeah...but it's not an Apple! No doubt there'll be many tablet computers arriving now, but none will be as good as the iPad. Just like iPod spourned many mp3 competitors- none were as good as iPod! The iPad will be the best tablet available. Why? because Apple just gets it right- they make the software AND hardware, and there products are easy and great fun to use. They're track record of consistently excellent products has earned Apple my (and millions of other peoples!) loyalty. Best of luck to this company with their new tablet. But I won't be buying it.. Why? Because it not an Apple!

1) The Adam will have multitouch support. It supports it in the hardware, and Android can support multitouch in the software. 2) Pixel Qi vs IPS: This is actually a clear winner for the Adam. Backlit or self lit panels, such as any LCD panel (TN, PVA, IPS, etc) or OLED screen actually causes eye strain while reading. Being able to turn off the backlight on the Pixel Qi screen makes it a far superior reading device. As for color accuracy, etc, yes, IPS panels are superior. But the average consumer won't notice much of a difference from a TN panel and an IPS panel. IPS panels are also significantly more expensive than their TN and PVA brothers. I care about extreme color accuracy on my workstation monitor for when I'm in Photoshop - not when I'm surfing the web at Chili's while waiting for my food, or while I'm riding the subway. 3) As for a lack of an ecosystem - The Adam runs Android, which has a large app store and community of its own. Most of the "big" apps - Things like Pandora, Shazam, turn by turn navigation, Facebook, IM clients, etc, all exist in the Android Market. It is small in comparison to the App store, but much of what exists in the app store is "junk". With the ability to run Chromium coming, and nvidia working closely with the Linux community to get a linux distro working on the ARM based Tegra 2, the Adam will be one of the most open and developer friendly tablets on the market. 4) As for the Apple A4 - It's simply a Cortex A9 multicore chip with a 3rd party GPU solution. The Tegra is also a Cortex A9 multicore chip, but it uses their own GPU solution. Notion Ink has a product to be proud of, and there's every eason to believe they can compete with Apple for a fair portion of the market, assuming it can be advertised and marketed properly.

Wow Adam Excellent Features compared to apple, so might Adam will eats-away The Apple

This is crap, first of all Adam tablet not in the market, no one outside ever used it, the title of the article sounds like a big failure sure for this yet to see device. Be clear on what you're going to write before making such immature titles.

Nobody is killing anybody. Stop with the hype until the thing is actually released and used by people who did not work on it. And what kind of rubbish is $327-$800 range. Are they going to just give you the case for $327? If it's going to cost $800 with all the features that are being advertised, then it is DOA.

800 $ for a pixel QI screen : way too expensive

I can't tell if this article is a troll or not. Framing the debate as being about features entirely misses the appeal of the iPad. The Zune has more features than the iPod; according to this logic, they should have close to the same market share. In reality, that's not even close to the case. The appeal of the iPad is that it isn't a computer. Computers are terrible, frightening contraptions that only geeks understand. Don't believe me? Ask grandma about recompiling their OS or how to remove a rootkit. Average users don't care about that crap, and Apple is capitalizing on this while everyone else worries about copying but not being too radical. To compete in this economy, you have to differentiate yourself from your competitors or do what your competition does, better, and convincingly enough that users will switch. Thus far, neither seems to be the case. Finally, no one cares about Flash unless you play games. It's a passing fad for user interfaces and streaming video. Remember Java video players?

How about the apps? I believe one differentiator the iPhone scores over the competetion is the App store. Would this be applicable for iPad too? If so, letting users world-over come up with their own apps and providing a store for those apps would be a sure winner for Adam. Love you guys.. Wishing you good luck.

ADAM looks very exciting and its Indian company so I'm goan buy this as it has more features. And i want wish good luck to Notion Ink company keep inovating

Apple, apple, apple. Too much of it everywhere. Well, first, let me admire Steve Jobs for his incredible vision in bringing something new. But being in the technology, nothing just raises my eye brow except their marketing strategy. What is so special about an ipod? Sony had thought about music on move in 80's, when you and me were still kids. Silicon was shrinking everytime, and putting a music player into small memory chip isnt great invention. Its a clear cut r&d, and a new idea infact. I appreciate apple for new way of music listening. Iphone came next. What is so special about it? Motorola invented communications in 80's. We had so many phones already in market. Apple mixed phone + their video player. A great idea again. But do many of apple die hard fans here know which OS apple runs? The footprint of that OS in apple Iphone is almost 700MB ! Thats a huge silicon area. Do you know who is paying for it? You. Apple is not giving that memory area for free. With such a huge OS footprint, anyone can have a lousy graphics. They didnt do it in say 3 MB kernel like a Linux (Android) + 50MB filesystem. Next iPod. whats so special about it? Amazon had kindle. Again Steve jobs saw his phone and music market is stabilising. He has to show growth to his share holders. He created this product, which for people like me is useless. We need a laptop, as it has computing power, and I code. I need a compiler on my handheld always. Whatever products Apple may bring out, they are all NICE TO HAVE ideas. They are infact luxuries. They are not solving the problems of common man in anyways. The day they come up with gadget to rescue a human life in crisis, I will appreciate them. Else whats use of such luxuries when you are dying?

I am very proud to have a product like Adams to challenge the steve job's Ipad . Its all matter about the quality. Not based on which company produce. still awating for lot of new products.

I see some rediculous comments from the readers. Give a break. iPad is just an oversized iTouch. We should accept that in 2010 you can't support multi touch then how can anyone rate you as the best gadget maker. It is nice to see someone coming up with sensible stuff. No offense meant but I think Mr. Jobs might loose on the 'pad' bet

A product does not sell only on features agreed. But it cannot survive only on quality. Look at the Apple IPOD. It did not have FM Radio, voice recorder and camera in it till each and every device was having. If the Adam can be just a slight bit significant on quality, i am sure Apple will get a run for its money. Tell me how many of people out there would like to connect their IPOD to IPAD and transfer the music or watch your videios on the large screen using HDMI. And just think that for IPAD you need to shell our $160 more and miss them.

Are they flipping mad? The Adam has NO multi-touch! It's like making fruit punch without sugar! I don't want to even try using a touch based tablet without the natural convenience of being able to use all my fingers. The lack of an IPS screen?!? These two things aren't just minor absences, these are two things that DRASTICALLY changes the entire experience! Of course I'm going to stick with an iPad.

Those who cry about multi touch and IPS screen , PLEASE just go and buy an IPad , no one is stopping you. Just dont brag about it as if everyones life depended on it. By the way did you guys check out the camera on this thing, it has a 3 Mp SWIVELING camera, and also the Trackpad is on the bottom !!! Also do you know it has 3 USB ports, now ask why?? cos you can plug in a USB mouse and key board if needed. Then there is Ubuntu on it and also a HDMI port. Am sold already. To think all this could have been conjured up by an Indian company gets me more excited and I bet it would be damn cheaper the the %$#$Pad :P Please see the original video (I think at Economic times) or the article at gizmodo before you pass a judgement.

Techtree please fix the comments sytem. I just lost a comment and where in God's name is the formatting?

For the apple fans crying foul over the lack of an IPS screen all I can say is that how many of you have actually seen an IPS panel? And how many of you do not know about the problems that apple quality control is not able to well.. control? More importantly, read up about the PixelQi display technology. It combines e-ink with the common display technologies and makes it convenient for both reading and using it for day-to-day computing. A wonder innovation by itself, the ipad isn't in the same league at all. About the multitouch part.. LOL! Its a gimmick and if you are serious about your work (zooming into photos is not the biggest priority of any serious person) then you'll be served in vastly better fashion by this device. Finally, this information should have been provided by the one posting this bit of news. Another fail by techtree. You missed out on explaining the worthiness of the most important feature on this device, the Pixeqi technology.

i think its should be ubuntu and not ubunty

A tablet is just about ease of use. WIthout multi-touch Adam won't be easy and fun to use and can't beat iPad.

Dude its Ubuntu..Not ubunty...

cool

its really coooooool ..its specification are really very very nice and the multi os support ,i just loved it. i am just thinking, that it could come according to my pocket . the 15000-20000 its ok......