More on the images you saw!
Dear All
Little updates:
- Logo: We were waiting for the Winners to send back the signed agreements back and we are processing them on our front now. Result on next week-end special.
- EAP registrations have been closed. In total 6800+ entries and around 70 have already been selected. We need to talk to each one of them so its little tiring process. But on 10th, all the selected ones will be informed (this is a festive week in India, so did some prior arrangements that this goes on time). We received entries from a lot of different kinds of groups, like Police Departments, Nuclear Reactor firms, Kindergartens, Space Organizations, Universities, Doctors and a lot more people working in extremely exciting fields (nuclear science!).
- FCC: We are on time for this and you could hold devices in your hands on or before Christmas (and as hinted earlier, if we miss Christmas, then CES or New Year). Pre-booking will start in early December (if the case id prior). Already received FCC for the chargers!
- Countries: Through online booking you can order in most of the countries, thanks to our logistics partners!
- Strength: Notion Ink’s head counts increased by 15% in last month.
- Android Version: Its 2.2. But expect upgrades as soon as its out there!
- Blog Hits: Total number of hits till October = 0.56 X Total number of hits in October! Thanks everyone!
Now the post!
Last week I posted few images which you all have seen, and few people in the comments have rightly pointed out that there was more in those images. For examples look at the image on right:
On the right side of this image you see a small vertical section. This is where the your songs are minimized, when you are not viewing the music panel. This is the thick state mode (which collapses to a smaller edge) where you are interacting with this edge (like forwarding, changing song, pausing, reading lyrics, etc)
One can customize this notification area to any application, and you can have them on left as well, as you can see in the left image with the twitter bird coming out!
Remember this is just the wire-frame and not the final implementation. (And same goes for the browser tabs implementation!)
And on the leaving note: Happy Diwali to everyone!
With Warm Regards
Rohan Shravan
convert them i mean… I am ready for a change. As long as I can still skype with it.
This looks really awesome! Everything I want in a tablet… does it come in Hot Pink?
Will I be able to use all my documents and things from my mac on here?
I didn’t know posting was so important. Looking forward to the pre-order
Thanks for the update Rohan!
Can Pandora run in that right sidebar? It’d be sweet to have it over there with the little thumbs up/down icons for quick adjustments.
Hi Notion Ink.
Will “Adam” be available in Europa? I live in denmark, will “Adam” be available here?
- Lasse
Ditto me
I am looking forward to the release of this. I will not buy anything apple, and have been holding off waiting on this one. Could you please give me an update as soon as I may be able to pre-order one, or as soon as it is released? Thank you so much for any help.—-Jason
Dear Rohan,
Big fan / anticpator of the Adam. Very excited to hear about the progress, and my question is about the “December pre-order” that everyone is talking about.
So…*where* will you be able to do this? On this site? Amazon? Somewhere else?
Best,
Brian
Read about this a while back in some magazine and glad I caught this before possible preorder.
With the investor problem, it seems reasonable that this will actually be released soon as a sort of 1.5 version. I think I will get in on the preorder if I can. It looks so much better than the other tablets out there and I wouldn’t even consider buying those.
What is the 16/32/64 gig storage even, some sort of SSD?
Ok, here is some news on Gingerbread,
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-android-gingerbread-days.html
Rohan, given this news.. is it safe to assume that you will either have an update by CES 2011 if adam is not out by then ?
Hope NI would have been able to get more info than what is floating around in media..
Good Luck!! and waiting for pre-order dates
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-Murali
P.S. Borders also arranged for preorders for the Cruz!!
Arioch,
The reason Amazon should ditch the Kindle is because it is trash. The new Android, Windows Phone 7, iOS, and WebOS tablets will make it obsolete if it isn’t already. Amazon knows this and is rumored to be developing a new tablet. They should stop trying to develop something (most likely a mirasol – Qualcomm) based unit that will be inferior to the Adam.
that would happen sooner or later
but probaby “later” than “sooner”
Amazon and OEMs put some money into developing of Kindle (i mean last model) and they 1st need to sell enpough of them to justify development, and only then start selling another tablets.
Perhaps Amazon would go for it in a year, to the *next* xmas.
But not for now. And in a year would be too late for Adam.
I think either Borders or Barnes and noble would be good choices. Both have primary interest in selling ebooks and each use tablets other than their own. Borders uses the Cruz reader/tablet and B&N uses the Pandigital
I don’t know, I think waiting so long may be the fatal nail in the Notion Ink’s coffin. Especially if they miss Christmas. At the beginning of the year there was just an iPad. Now a lot of the competitors are coming out of the woodwork and being ready to converge on Christmas. Even in my case, previously I was interested in the Notion Ink and wanted to buy that. But I will probably get an HP 2133 Mini for Christmas.
Ultimately a lot of people who are interested would wait after the product comes out to try to see if it is as good as the hype or not, waiting for reviews and stuff. Even if it comes out a day before Christmas, those people won’t buy. If it came out in November, then there would be a month to see if it is any good, and if it was they would buy it for Christmas or tell others they want it. But ultimately if it comes out for Christmas, I probably won’t buy it until well into next year. And at that point I will probably wait to see if Apple refreshes the iPad and what that looks like.
Ultimately I think the investors made some really stupid decisions and that probably they are going to pay for it dearly. If the tablet came out in June or something, then probably by July/August I would have bought, as would many others because there just weren’t that many competitors. Now there are all sorts of Android Tablets to look at. Also as the iPad becomes more mature and gets more Apps, it becomes more desirable as well. Also with Christmas, the most important retail shopping time of the year, coming any tablets that were out for a little while, particularly when people do their christmas shopping (late November/Early December) have a huge advantage….
In any case hope the company doesn’t go bankrupt, because next Christmas 2011 I may look into the Notion Ink. But if the iPad refresh is that much better, maybe not….
Chris has it right on. You would do better to even release a limited supply to a wide variety of retail outlets. Learn from the Wii. A great product with limited supply will create buzz and free marketing. Buzz and marketing will create more interest from investor, media outlets, retail outlets, and content providers. It will also give many of us a reason to hold out for a product in the future. That being said you must and I repeat must meet you production promises. If you say it will be available on Nov. xth then make sure that you at least sell 10 that day even if you have to sell them to Slashgear, TomsHardware, PCMag, Cnet, and engadget. The only way you are going to overcome Apple is with a lot of buzz and delivery that consumers can count on. Then maybe you can just join forces with Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, or Walmart and really kick Apples rear. Good luck.
@BDA123
And who would receive the first 10? I tell you, I’m beginning to worry about Saint Steve. I’m sure he will try to buy the first 50 units.
But I have faith in Rohan. He will make sure his faithful fans here will have the opportunity to hold it first!
@Chris
I’m sure you love the Adam’s proyect as much as anyone here, bu I disagree with your view of the whole history of Adam.
Honestly, I tried to follow your reasoning, but there was a point where I just couldn’t stay with it.
Your view is just too negative. Sure we all would like to see Adam ASAP, but do you really believe NI can just listen to your barrage of nihilistic attitude, and say: “Hey, he is correct, let’s just trow it out there”
They will not do that because they can’t. As simple as that.
By the way, whn you say: “fatal nail in the Notion Ink’s coffin”, I immediately thought: “The Adam is already in a coffin”, which of course is not true.
Hi Rohan,
If the speaker are loud-enough, how about a simple remote with basic functionality. play/pause/vloume-up-down/next/previous?
Almost every modern celluar phone has this functionality, via bluetooth
For example rather old Sony K550i has.
If Adam would have good enough blue-tooth stack, supporting other side of that bt profile, , that might be enough
First,
Happy Diwali, Rohan !
As I’m from Hungary I had had to check on wiki what is this ‘festive’ celebrity you wrote about. Last time when I was teenager was read about Indian gods ( http://muzeumantikvarium.axio.hu/images/item_image/original/3923.jpg ).
After I chased the details of pre-booking – as I was redirected here from another site, where it was written -, but I was so exciting : my eyes skated over that sentence in your post. Probably as I expected more , he-he.
Like the future gold-diggers at shores of Alaska in 19th century – to be landed for seekin’ their luck – I feel so eagerly awaits the date when I can be sure my ordeing is beeing processed.
a custumer of Hungary
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or a hungry customer (please feed us
Hi,
I don`t know where to ask, so I`ll try this blog. Are you planning to include some PDF Reader (some port of Foxit Reader will be nice – you can insert notes/coments into your PDF)? It is very important for me, because I would like to use Adam for reviewing of papers.
Android has lots of PDF readers, not sure about notes/comments.