Week-End Special – Part VI
Dear All,
Last week passed like a day!
First an announcement:
- Voting has been closed and you have selected your winner! Notion Ink will go with you choice. Notion Ink will get in touch with all the top 10, because we have something special for all of them! Will post the results on Monday (need to take permissions from the Winner that we can use it commercially)
Here is a short video on the 1080P performance and Full Volume (it’s really loud, so keep your volumes low)
You will find audio and video out of sync cos of software conversion from MOV format to MP4.
Lets talk about the UI little bit.
The Aqua (Aero, Glass and Gloss)
We feel they all are one. At Notion Ink, we are definitely not in love with Gloss. Here are the current generation icons and styling:
(iTunes, WMP, Playbook, Samsung Galaxy and then Android in order).
You can see that Android was already little low on gloss for their icon sets and we are further away from it.
The Browser
We faced a very serious issue of how to handle the tabs. (Those who have or see other Android Tablets around, do check how the tabs work on their browsers and they would know!) Tabs are essential, without them we will die! That’s multi-tasking as well! There was also an issue of how to NOT BLOCK the screen and not force the user to “go hit menu and then “tabs opened” then select the one you want. That’s not Notion Ink style.
We wanted speed. Speed of switching, closing, opening the closed tab, and closing all in multiple and that through our thick fingers. This is what we have come up with:
Internally we keep on fighting to push one system or the other. One team would think theirs is the best idea and other the same. But the best results and options comes from our very special Usability Team which will test all the feature, measure the reactions and easy and then report which path to go!
The Panels
These images will first be previewed by those who get the EAP and the SDK access. To make the UI development seamless and easy, we have converted our ideation into guidelines. Here is an example:
The more on how to design seamless interaction will get covered in the “UI Blog” which we mentioned.
There is still a lot of restriction (from patent lawyers and investors) on what I can reveal and what I can’t and I have to agree to their stand. I am waiting eagerly with you to get the Power Table Up so we all can check our usages.
With Warm Regards
Rohan Shravan
Wow, I really can’t wait to get my hands on the Notion Ink Adam Tablet!!!
That tab-switching feature is one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a long while!
honestly i really like the tabs! nice job thinking outside the box
If the quality of this youtube video, and the quality of the audio sync is any indicative of the quality of your product, then I’d rather wait for a Honeycomb Terga 2 tablet from a big company.
i’m currently using the HTC Hero with the latest update on it. I like how the home screen uses the multi touch function to get from the home screen to all 5 screens by doing the minimising thingy with two fingers. That way we can pick which screen we want to look at. This could be another option for going to a new tab quickly.
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I’ve been drooling and salivating over an year to buy ‘adam’. Studiously avoided ipad & others and been saving up my money to buy adam. Guys, the launch is long over due. Dont kill us with all this suspense and tension.
hello Notion Ink , i read your blog , be a nice blog and greatly. Great for me. a lot of and content. i going to often to read and review your site.
Hi,
I was great supporter of Notion ink but unfortunately we are lagging behind continuously(in terms of launching the product).
We are already miles behind.we have to be more aggresive(it is truth).
May be by the time we will launch this product ,a new era of interfaces will come up which makes current product outdated.
Abhay Kumar
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It would be really nice to see a gesture for selecting a tab as well as being able to touch it directly. Perhaps to press on the semicircle and drag another finger up and down to scroll through selections of a tab. Release would open that tab.
You mean like this kind of GUI?
http://www.firstelse.com/#/Touch/ThesPlay
It not power if people are complaining. it could be maybe 100 people posting 2-3 times a day.
This comment may be displaced or outdated but I think notion ink should consider.
Tabled usage in company : displace, replace et new place.
The though is to help company IT integration
You should consider providing multiple VPN clients and remote desktop system.
You can see some explanations here : http://www.itrnews.com/images/2010/2010-11-03-3-Tablette1.jpg
My thought is based on
Ted Schadler’s article I think this one http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/how_ipads_enter_workforce/q/id/57970/t/2
It was described here in french http://www.itrmanager.com/articles/111505/bataille-tablettes.html
Hope this will help you goiing through
whether rohan gives any info or not.. this blog gets around 200 to 300 comments everyday..
power of NI
Another thing is for me services like Netflix and Hulu+ definitely play a role in my tablet decision. Do you guys think there’s any chance of these being available on adam?
Sure!.. it will. NI intends to provide maximum entertainment through this ADAM platform. It is designed for such, “Home Thetre Experience”. The speakers are specifically given special attention to, for this cause. And so, sure NI would like to give this boy(adam) maximum excecise & play his limits.
Thus, NI would definately like to have these services available on their devices.
Can notion ink even do ANYthing by the deadline!
1. no logo
2. no final specifications
3. we still dont know whether FCC as approved the product.
4. no release date
is this thing even going to come? have u ever seen something take so long to develop.
it is exactly a vaporware!
have u ever seen something take so long to develop
You mean somethink like DukeNukem Forever?
NO. I haven’t seen it. But nobody has. (but i hope to see ADAM!)
have u ever seen something take so long to develop?
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i think they are going for the whole, no news then suddenly bam its avaliable! I very much doubt we will hear much news before the product is actually availiable. In the interest of money no communication for as far whats going on it well lets be honest typical. Im 90% sure the product will become avaliable at some point. Before christmas, judging on how little anyone knows its a 50/50 shot. Cant wait to here that “Bam its available”, Rohan those are your exact words to use… Over and out
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Hi toegther,
It was announced, thet the the EAP should start on Nov. 3rd. Today it’s Nov. 4th and I can see anywhere an update or information about EAP.
Does anyone from you have news about the EAP ??
they are going to decide and notify the developers by 10th. so wait……..