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Break from Eden UI – The Hardware

Posted in Uncategorized by Rohan Shravan on December 24, 2010

Hello All,

This video is a break from Eden UI and shows some of the Hardware features along with the 180 degree port placement. Key hardware features are as below:

  • HDMI Out – Adam on the Vimeo site and playing a video (Flash). Sound is also sent along with video signals (disabled in the posted video). You can also see, Adam powering USB speakers (it can charge all your phones as well). We also switched OFF the screen while the video was playing (I remember this was a question in the comments some time ago).
  • False Digitizer – We show Adam being used as a false digitizer (sending touch signals via wi-fi) for Blender on Windows. It is as accurate as you can get on your touch-pad, just that it’s a 10 inch one! I would suggest you use a stylus for these kind of works. It also acts like a keyboard (used few short cuts here like r (for rotate), s (for scale), etc. for Blender)
  • Adam has stereo speakers ( 1 watt into 2) and they are located on either sides of the device unlike others (in fact all tablets) where speakers are clubbed together (this makes stereo speakers work as mono, and you can’t feel the 3D nature of sound).
  • You can easily connect your wireless mouse and keyboards as you have seen in earlier videos, and is not repeated here. (Someone questioned, can they connect their USB modems and run internet! The answer is yes, if the drivers are available for Android, so you need to check with your service provider)
  • You can take a look at the light silver section (decorative bars) and it’s design, which are easily replaceable and helps in color customizations.
  • Adam looks more male and industrial than other softer tablets out there.

Here is the video (with non-production quality disclaimer).

With Warm Regards

Rohan Shravan

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  1. Prasad Pinn said, on December 27, 2010 at 21:05

    I have digitzed content that I always carry with me including BD. Do you think Adam will play 1080P and what are it’s capabilities of using as Media player?

  2. eric said, on December 26, 2010 at 22:07

    Really hard to follow what’s going on at the bottom of the screen in the ‘false digitizer’ section.

  3. earthzero said, on December 26, 2010 at 20:53

    I know that I was one of those who asked about the ability to view the full OS experience via HDMI. Looks great! Even better than I expected. Can’t wait for CES when we will have a view of both types of screens and perhaps a sample of how the on-board, stereo speakers sound.

    I hope you guys are taking the DLNA client application suggestion seriously. It would make a huge difference to people to be able to stream content directly to the Adam (with a nice 10 inch interface) from an existing media server on the network rather than have to store content on the Adam’s local storage… Keep up the good work!

    • earthzero said, on December 26, 2010 at 20:59

      I’ll add to this that it would be great for someone to come out with a better media player–something like XBMC or Plex–for Android as well as making a DLNA client. With a powerful Tegra 2 based device like the Adam, it could be the ultimate, low-powered, cloud based device. We could save our local storage for what counts; apps, critical off-line storage and caching (rather than media content) and pull the majority of our content from local networks or the cloud for consumption and manipulation.

  4. michaelames2 said, on December 26, 2010 at 19:49

    Why is there a physical back button on the side and a touch sensitive back button on the top?

  5. Mike said, on December 26, 2010 at 12:18

    Rohan,
    while talking about hardware, can you provide more specifics on the 3G bands used? Just saying 3G HSPA in the tech specs doesn’t tell us if it will work with our carrier of choice (e.g. 850MHz for Telstra in Australia).

  6. Michael Carver said, on December 25, 2010 at 23:11

    One has to take into consideration that the Adam PQ version has an ambient light sensor and the display in the videos is almost certainly “dimmed” due to the ambient light used to shot the videos.

  7. Francois Brutsch said, on December 25, 2010 at 21:56

    When we saw the first Adams produced in China, my heart sank a bit: what I loved with the first renditions (the beautiful “sandwich”, 3 layers of the sides) had disappeared, it was now looking all flat and cheap. With that video I can see it is all back, even better: not only is the intermediate layer ever so slightly recessed, but each plug is nicely encased. Thank you so much for this as well as everything else!

  8. Mike said, on December 25, 2010 at 21:33

    Just great hardware in my opinion…

    one more thing on display: Would you show as a video the viewing angle of qi and lcd. Thanks a lot.

    Oh and is it possible to use the hdmi to have a second desktop instead of clone?

    And merry xmas of course.

  9. tandeh said, on December 25, 2010 at 20:57

    Rohan’s had too much turkey, LOL, he needs a a few extra minutes,

  10. Arhant said, on December 25, 2010 at 20:54

    Where is today’s Christmas special??? Cmon rohan, serve it up!

  11. SAMADHAN RAUT said, on December 25, 2010 at 20:49

    merry christmas to all

  12. SAMADHAN RAUT said, on December 25, 2010 at 20:38

    gesture control, kinetic feature ,visual? Mystery feature!

  13. JavierD said, on December 25, 2010 at 20:11

    Come on Rohan!!! Open the gates for others to place a pre-order – please please please!!!!

    I want one!!!!

  14. Rahim said, on December 25, 2010 at 19:39

    Rohan

    We are hungry..where is our today’s food? :D

    Wishing all NI followers Merry Xmas. May god bless all of you with a brand new Adam within 2 days :)

  15. jayachandran said, on December 25, 2010 at 19:34

    Merry Christmas to you all my friends …

    Have tons fun with friends and family

    waiting for my santa news :) new post :)

  16. Anuj said, on December 25, 2010 at 19:24

    May be I am technologically challenged but,
    1.) How, what was shown in the above video is different from connecting your laptop or desktop to a monitor using HDMI port?
    2.) In the second half, how using Adam as digitizer was different from using an optical mouse?
    Nothing against ADAM but just curious.

    • JavierD said, on December 25, 2010 at 20:14

      1. it’s not different? – It’s a tablet. How many other tablets can do that?
      2. It’s in the ability to use your tablet as a digitizer. Think about it…

    • billreyn1967 said, on December 25, 2010 at 20:17

      1) There is no difference. There is a difference between it and something like th Ipad. It also shows that you don’t need your laptop for it. The Ipad can’t replace your laptop. NI is showing that adam can replace many of those things.

      2) It looks like using it as a touchpad is easier than using a mouse. Since it connects via wifi you also have greater range. It also shows that you can use adam to replace yet another one of your devices.

  17. jared said, on December 25, 2010 at 19:11

    PQ colors are not bad, just not as good.

    This looks good to me:

    “http://www.fastcompany.com/video/pixel-qi-demo”

    • GIJoe said, on December 25, 2010 at 19:25

      exactly Jared!
      Thanks for the link!

      These concerns are founded in lack of not having PQ in action!
      In fact PQ feels more easy on the eye than LCD.

      Besides, the entire reason why I would buy a tablet is its portability.
      For indoor use, I have my 21″ LCD connected to my PC, or my 17″ Laptop to watch movies and such. Also, if I am indoors, I would rather watch my movies on my TV!!

    • karen said, on December 25, 2010 at 19:49

      Thanks for the link, jared.
      It eased my mind a bit.
      Still hope Rahan will offer a video of LCD an PQ running side by side.

  18. lxne said, on December 25, 2010 at 19:02

    Will there be a new preorder for the “family”?
    There are still many that didn’t get a preorder-mail because of system failures.
    I’m still very disappointed about that – because I virtually no chance to order a pixel Qi version.

    Merry Christmas everybody.

    • bramslob said, on December 25, 2010 at 22:00

      +1

  19. FlyingDolphin said, on December 25, 2010 at 18:26

    MErRY CHRIstmas evErybodY!1!!!!!1111

    • Mike said, on December 25, 2010 at 18:44

      Anybody know if a USB memory card reader would work in this, or would you need special drivers? I want to be able to use Compact Flash memory from my DSLR to view and store pictures, and that’s generally the only type memory they use.

      Happy Holidays to all.

  20. ma10wong said, on December 25, 2010 at 17:01

    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the rest! ;-)

  21. Carlo said, on December 25, 2010 at 17:00

    It is true that Pixel Qi impacts the brightness of the LCE screen? Could someone confirm that?


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