There and back again!

Hello All,

Adam has already reached some of its owners. While our friends in US and Europe might have to wait bit more since we are awaiting CE and FCC approvals (passed all the tests), I thought I should give more details on Adam. Posted below are some of the images taken from Adam. Camera quality is really very good, and if you are into photography, Adam might come in handy. The swivel nature would allow you to scan documents as well and auto-focus function will help in that a lot! But beware, Adam is a big device when compared to a camera, and you’ll have to hold Adam with more stability. Those (like me) who are a fan of macro mode, would simply love Adam. One thing which you can notice is, Adam does not have flash. IMHO, flash is only useful in 5% of the cases. You use flash when light is low, and end up with glares and washed out regions. So make sure you have good lighting around when you use any camera (I hope those will photography experience will comment on this and we can learn more on this new topic).


FCC and CE. Though for a company doing business IN the respective countries can’t sell product without these certifications, global business does not have any such restrictions, and over all these contradiction makes things confusing. For example, as a customer you can buy a product without these certifications online. We will opt for the safer side and wait for the final confirmation and then ship it to you (little more patience please 🙂 ).
At CES we all learnt about Honeycomb. At Notion Ink we were aware of this project and could guess what modules were being improved, and made Eden so things are compatible. As such there are no official (as per our record and few online sources) there are no hardware restrictions, and when Honeycomb is available, we will send updates as soon as possible. For Motorola to have access to Honeycomb, NVidia first MUST have access to make it stable on Tegra and resolve any issue. They give to us OEMs what is called, a BSP (Board Support package) and then only OEMs can work on it. As of now Honeycomb is a work in progress, and would take little more time than we think for its public availability (for an instance, Android took almost 18 months to become stable on various Tablet platforms).
Eden requires lot more than traditional Android elements. For example, even simple things like 3 leaves requiring Keyboard focus, does not exist in Android. These are ‘view’ features and this is exactly what is getting a lot of improvement on Honeycomb (along with a lot more things). We are expecting a lot of graphic improvements. For instance, on the Panel system you can see that the animation though is fast is not smooth. Reason is, that the parameters chosen were for a small screen, where you 5% movement is only 0.125 inch (say), but on a tablet it’s around 0.5inch.
Times ahead are far more interesting because Notion Ink is just not software, it stands for design, for new hardware and for innovation. And if Google is doing innovation on Software front, what would Notion Ink be doing on other fronts?? 🙂

(I just arrived, off to some rest now!)

With Warm Regards

Rohan Shravan

1,489 thoughts on “There and back again!”

  10. Hey Rohan!
    Just finished seeing all the videos of adam on CES. Stellar!!
    I cannot boast enough, how good adam looks now!! Tremendous job and Eden looks so polished.
    Can’t wait to see more of QuickOffice on adam.
    Keep up the good work.
    Did you get any information on when next batch of Pixel Qi screens will be available to NI?

  15. Welcome home, and congratulations! You made a great impression at CES and hopefully will continue to turn heads well into the future.

  20. Did you get any information on when next batch of Pixel Qi screens will be available to NI customers? Yaar it reminds me of VESPA XE !

  23. Reached who? I haven’t seen mine! Nor the update of the preorder status!

  24. Good to have back with us Rohan!
    Dying to read your impressions on CES and hear some news about the next possibility for ordering Adams.

  26. Good news on the reconfirmation that all test have been passed for the U.S. and Europe. Can’t wait to get my Adam! By the way, the photos look great, and I think the swivel camera is another product differentiation feature that can be exploited in marketing. Show the flexibility of it in use (classroom settings, video conferences, scanning documents, etc.) compared to a fixed front and back camera. No comparison with usability.

    Keep up the posts.

    MP

  28. I wonder how long the delay is..days? weeks? And if so the Estimated shipping dates should be changed to reflect that.

  29. All good news. Thanks Rohan.

    However, would you please clarify one thing? Do you already have the FCC and CE numbers printed on the tablets so that they are ready to ship or do you still have to print them on before shipping?

    Thanks again. Adam is awesome! I can’t wait!!!

  31. Bravo Rohan!…It seemed like ther ewas uncertainty in the air and I am glad that you cleared it up without anyone having to speculate. Leaving nothing to chance is what makes the Adam special and your foresight and honesty is what amazes me… I wish you al lthe best in the comming months…Don’t stress too much and get some rest.. From what I can gather the positives outway the negatives at this point ans while issues will always arise it is how you handle it that counts.

    Thanks for being open and forthcoming

  32. Glad you found your way home. Hope you can deliver new Adams really soon. Waiting desperately for the order 😦

  33. Once it is in the hands of a few proud owners, it should shut up some of the wagging tongues at Engadget or shall we say please END GADGET. I was surprised that they got to have an interview with Rohan.

  35. So who really has one and where are the videos, pictures, etc.?

    As for picture quality, I touched on that in the last blog post. You need good light, otherwise, don’t count on great quality. That being said, flashes on the devices like cell phone are a waste of time, energy, money. Great decision Rohan! Camera sensors are getting better with noise and in time, these better sensors will be incorporated in these devices. Otherwise expect blur and or noise in low light.

    The outdoor shots look really great.

  36. Rohan, Congratulations!
    Great video of the adam coming out of CES.

    I can’t wait to get my hands on one.

  37. Govind i wasnt really a fan of engadget because of how the treat NI but they been really nice latley and have showen that they are really impressed by NI

  38. top 100 hopefully, deliver me unto my Adam now or ASAP please.
    Well done at CES to all at NI

  40. Gr8 to see +ve reviews on crunch/slash+gear, etc! Though there was hardly any news on the mainstream media compared to last year when it was first known.

    I came to know about Adam on the mainstream just before the CES 2010. Guess since then a lot of players are putting their hats in for Android tablets especially the big ones.

    The interview by Crunchgear guy was a bit lame and cliched.

    I hope the next Pixel Qi batch is announced soon!

  41. Ah so that explains the snapping of the leaves near the edges. Hope that gets fixed then.

    Have a good rest

  42. Congratulations, I can’t wait for mine. As people get their adam’s post photos or give feedback and indicate where you are in the world so we get an idea where they are going. I am patiently waiting here in Australia. 🙂

  43. Congratulations on a successful CES. Can someone at NotionInk update us as to when orders will be taken for the next batch? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

  44. Thanks for keeping us up to date R. Got some great Vids out of the trip!
    P.s. you look so much more C.E.O-ish in this years videos! I think I heard some of the bloggers stutter when interviewing you! 🙂

  45. Gr8…
    Inkers who have received their ADAM can pls come forward and share the excitement.

  46. I think the biggest shock in these news is… Greg was beaten 😐

    Well im glad people are receiving their products , hope they can supply us with some cool videos of the Adam working on, i would love to see more!

  47. I don’t mind waiting for the Adam based on what I’ve seen in the videos so far. I would like to believe that it is going to ship next week, but if I have to wait a week or two that’s fine by me. I have literally sold three Adams without even having the device. They joined the blog so that they would get noification on the next round of pre-orders. There was a comment made in regards to marketing and about the consumer selling the device I believe it is dead on. When we go out in public and start doing our thing people are going to come up to us and ask what is it? I was thinking that maybe Notion Ink could setup a point system setup where if you get people to use your link to buy an Adam you would earn points towards a free app or something? Did anyone notice that Rohan was holding an Adam tablet cover in one of the videos?

  48. Gee do I really care about FCC, not really just another crocked Government facility, oh hmm, I will however wait patiently, take deep breath and enjoy the ADAM when she arrives,” Jai Guru Dat’

  49. Please re-read the line after the ‘reached’ line in the post. You are one of the friends in US/Europe I suppose? Then you will have to wait. There are others outside US/Europe that ordered the Adam.

  50. technologies are just one side of a coin, but what about marketing, customer support, …?

  51. Yes please come forward but please do not spoil the surprise if you know what the secret function is after receiving the unit.

  52. Oh, I second that sentiment! I’ve already reserved the funds, and simply can’t wait until you receive your CE approval… Let’s hope it’s soon!

  55. I scream, they scream, we all scream for PRE-ORDER II !!!
    great job @ CES. All the best for the future…

  56. As far as stability is concerned… We can be sure… somebody will develop a tripod base for handling the adam…

    RepRap where art thou ?

    “http://reprap.org”

  59. “Adam has already reached some of its owners.”

    Ok, hands up anyone who actually has it now

  60. Also waiting patiently in Australia 🙂
    Hopefully the FCC and CE doesn’t affect us. If not, I could be posting this from Adam in a few days…

  61. For the countries where it is required, markings need to be there. Within a week there will be no distinction but right now there are 2 sets. First a smaller one where we shipped to those where there isn’t any requirement, and next is with labeling. How are you going? 🙂 (Off to some rest now)
    Regards

  62. hats off, Rohan and the NI team – great showing at CES… any idea when the Pixel Qi screens will be restocked so that those of us that ran into tech issues with first pre-order can get on some Adam lovin?…

  63. As someone who wants a device to do actual work and not only consumption of web/video/games, I think what tablets need is a proper textual interface. Touch only works with pictures and overall navigation.

    My main concern is that Adam will not be able to replace my notebook during conferences and meetings because I have to write some longer mails, applications, contracts, papers or whatever during breaks or later at the hotel. And if the tablet is not universally usable, it probably makes more sense to bring only the subnotebook/convertible..

  64. Don’t hold your breath .. the secret feature was already revealed to be an FM receiver in one of the videos.

  65. i am pretty sure somebody in the development world will port the Stanford / Nokia Open Source camera project to android

    “http://fcam.garage.maemo.org/”

  69. First off, glad you traveled back safely. Secondly, congratulations on a very IMPRESSIVE showing at CES 2011! We were all very proud to see Adam do well!

    Just a quick question though – Can the folks who have received their Adams get into the Genesis store using Adam?

  70. @Rohan Will this FCC delay affect those of us who have the Jan 15-22 shipping estimate? Or will all the available Adams ship at one time?

  71. For the power that is exuding from these NIs, buying a PiQi for display and another LCD for input (keyboard, mouse & digitizer)

    I think it will be better to buy two NIs and connect them wirelessly… rather than buying a laptop !!

    For the same price as a laptop, you will in short get a quad core laptop, with 2 GB of RAM and potentially two gateways to the internet…

  75. The pictures look amazingly sharp and clear! And agreed on the flash issue. When the lighting’s that low it’s past time to switch to a higher end digital or DSLR cam if you;re serious, IMHO.

    I thought it was pretty funny .. and not only a little ridiculous .. to see the Xoom get such attention .. especially since it’s unfinished hardware running a video of unfinished software. Hahahahahahahah. The power of a Big Name to grab attention.

    But the substance was at the Notion Ink booth and it was great to see the positive responses! Lookin forward to that next Qi batch availability as daylight read is a big one for us … as well as the additional battery life.

    Cheers .. kudos..congrats!! Eden looks brilliant. You could probably teach Google quite a few things…

  78. I was reading this on the iPad (my dad’s to be specific), and noticed that the images taken from Adam perfectly fit on the iPad screen’s aspect ratio, but that means it obviously won’t fit perfectly on the Adam’s screen aspect ratio 😦 Is this an over site Rohan? or more a restriction of the camera that had to be used to enable the swiveling? In the next generation of Adam, Please remedy this by making the resolution on the camera and screen match each other? Please? I will still be buying Adam for having the first generation of hardware and experiencing Eden. But it will hurt the feeling while viewing taken pictures with-in the Adam picture viewer.

    Any who, God bless you guys,
    Daniel

  79. I do a lot of photography with an SLR camera- the thing that always peeves me is how easy it is to trick an autofocus and get a crappy picture. Is there a manual zoom on Adam’s camera?

  80. Welcome back Rohan! Oh by the way get some rest!

    Also since you started the topic of Camera, I would like to know if there are any customizable settings like ISO. Customizable ISO would allow the camera to be used in different lighting situations although I would not expect a DSLR quality?

    Please answer this when ever you get a chance!

  81. I am also waiting for adam but my shipping date is 15th Jan to 22nd Jan.
    What is the shipping date for Ryan and Marc?

    Ryan and March, In any way theage and other website show good things about Adam?
    I did ask theage tech reporter “Adam Turner” about NotionInk and he was positive about the adam but he is waiting for hands on before posting about adam in theage.com.au.
    Best of luck on adam

  83. Great photos – can’t wait to experiment with my adam. Oh, wait, I didn’t get in the first round of pre-orders. Any news on the next one?

  85. Glad that you made it home safely. Congratulations on your presentations!! Look forward to seeing unboxing images soon from all of you lucky early recipients!!

    Hope that CES was productive for you (behind the scenes 😛 ), and that you will be able to share more good news with those of us who are still waiting, especially for Pixel Qi news….

    Sleep well!!

  86. Thank you Rohan, please enjoy your well-earned rest.
    I look forward to seeing the user reviews in the meantime!!!

  87. To all of NI, congratulations on a very sucsessful CES. I have been talking about Adam at work and with family for a while now. It is amazing now how many people are asking me about it now. I missed out on the first preorder, but I am anxiously awaiting preorder 2. Rohan after you get some rest a update on preorder 2 time frame for pixel Qi would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all of your hard work and your vision.

  89. If the software is open source and we can get a hold of the settings then this would be a good application to get built.

  90. I am really happy it turned out well for NI. Rohan you think we will.be able to order again soon? Who already got theirs??? So we.can bug them to see it 🙂

  94. Did anyone notice that the title to this blog post *happens* to be the same as the title of Bilbo’s tale from Lord of the Rings…

  95. We use C-Tick, but many products have FCC and CE. I am almost certain Australia will be one of the locations that will require certification before it is allowed in.

  96. I am waiting to order many adams of all kinds, hopefully by with MC (even better would be other direct payment methods like bank transfers). Any news on this Rohan?

    This is my 2 cents worth after being at CES.

    After CES, NI got more than enough good press especially for not being officially in CES.

    Anyone who has been in CES will know that it is a HUGE success for a small company product given that there are hundreds of big and small players in this tech zoo called the CES!

    Xoom and Playbook are all good in their own ways..both companies are trying not to sink from the Apple onslaught, which may correct some of their shortcomings in IPAD 2 but IOS still is not as “open” as Android. NI seemed to be not too worried!

    Honeycomb may be great news for all those tablet makers who did not spend enough on their software. For example, Viewsonic might gain a lot from the honeycomb if it can be upgraded to honeycomb without much pain. But they will have to wait for the release.

    Gain for NI would be there too from honeycomb, but Eden may still be better than the stock option of honeycomb for multitasking which some users may prefer. From the demo of Xoom (assuming that it is stock honeycomb) I think Eden is way better for clean transfers from one app to another and to there are many practical uses for having three working apps visible. If I were Google I would license (or make some arrangements with NI) Eden for honeycomb. NI can keep innovating hardware/software of tablets etc.

    Definitely, NO tablets among the many out there are as unique as Adam for the form factor (including the swivel camera), obviously. On the other hand, the form factor makes adam far more easier to use (just try typing using two hands on any current tablets without somehow making them stay slanted); Apple cheats by putting these in slanted mode holders in all their shops (no holder included in the box) making people believe it is easy to use!

    Good to know that the NI team is back to work but I am sure they need a week of rest!

  98. Hey Rohan

    Any word on when the next round of orders will become available? Had that credit card problem with the first round of preorders and am very eager to order one! Slashgear says you guys are the number 1 iPad competitor out there!!

  99. Thanks Phillip. Does that mean FCC and CE certifications suffice the requirements of C-Tick?

  101. I’m doing really well and will be even better once I get my Adam! Thanks for asking. 😀

    So it sounds like it may take a little longer for those of us living in countries that require the labels. Maybe I should move to a different country for a while. 😉

    Yes, go get some much needed and well deserved rest! You have had a very busy week. We really appreciate you keeping us informed and look forward to receiving our Adam tablets them once they can be shipped.

    Though if you wanted to ship me one without a label, I won’t tell the FCC… j/k

  103. Thanks for update, Rohan. You did an excellent job at CES! Now waiting for the second pre-order.

  104. Rohan,

    Can you just confirm that when Honeycomb becomes available, those already using 1st Gen Adams will be able to upgrade their devices? I think you are trying to say that, but it’s still not clear to me. Thanks.
    Jon

  106. Hi Family, I have a question for you techies out there. Verizon just released data on the IPhone 4. It has WiFi Hot Spot capability in the phone enabling up to 5 devices to get WiFi service. Should I not get the 3G Adam and rely on the IPhone or still get the 3G version?
    Thanks in advance.
    Welcome Back Rohan. Job well done. Rest easy.

  107. he says in a weeks time there will be no difference between the two versions shipped so they will have them printed within a week and ship to everyone.

  109. We’ll need some kind of a tripod to take photos.

    Use a flat 10″ table stand attached to the tripod.

    Or claws on three sides to hold the adam.

    LeoP

  110. Maybe this is just a diversion to get people in India their adam tablets a week before the rest of the world. Great way to cover it up Rohan ;P I believe you 😉

  111. And the photos do look really good. I would not have known they were taken with a tablet. I will get a lot of use out of Adam’s camera.

    I’d ask you to put up a video recorded on the the Adam but it will get modified by Google as you upload it. So you would have to host the original video file it on a web server and provide a download link so we can get the raw footage and play it locally on our computers. Thought I’d mention that just in case… Hint Hint 😉

  112. Rohan – please please please, consider opening up sales of the LCD model without waiting for the pixel qi.

  113. I’m waiting patiently to order one of these wonderful tablets. One year so far but getting closer. Well done!

  114. Glad to see you back !! I guess Rohan and NI team is in a better position!! Now that the ash test is almost over..
    Still waiting for Adam to reach me!!

  116. Welcome back the conquering hero/ Just read the Slashgear impression of the CES zoo and I am once mor amazed at how Rohan and the Adam were able to get so much nmedia attention without a booth and free food. It just goes to prove what an amazing persona, personality and product has captured all of our attention. which by itself give our short attention span is reason for amazement. So glad to have you back and look forward to hearing more about your impressions and exxperience.

  118. Just like I thought in the last thread, he would get into his home airport around 3:30 AM but surprised that he would post that early after flying. I see a really big post tomorrow.

  120. Heck yah… I think I would have had enough points already for free Adam 😉

    I think the tablet cover Rohan has is a sleeve for a netbook. Almost any 10″ netbook sleeve or cover would probably fit well.

  121. @Rohan
    We all wanted Greg to review it first. Please ship one w/o label, I think he is happy to receive label later.

  122. Let’s play a game…If you were in Rohan’s position and had at least a 13 hour plane ride, no contact with the outside world, and an Adam in your hand, what would you do? We know he didn’t have to worry about the battery 🙂

  124. I dunno, according to the TV show “outsourced” it would take you a week to get use to the food. Might as well just wait a week at home than in the restroom while your bowels compensate for the change in diet… lol

  125. Thanks so much, get some rest… Looking forward to receive my Adam in due course (and order 3 more!).

  127. I have a Droid X, I can have a Wifi hot spot for 5 devices, that is what I am going to do. No 3G Adam.

  128. Awesome Show Rohan. I wish I could have been there. next year hopefully. Thank you for the update now go take a break and get some rest. We’ll see you and a few days

  131. @Phillip , Ryan and Greg,
    This about CE & C-Tick requirements.
    What about CE marking?
    CE is the European compliance mark and covers a range of requirements including EMC and Electrical Safety. The EMC requirements are more extensive than those in Australia, where only radiated RF and Mains Terminal emission measurements are required. Products simply marked with a CE logo should in theory, but do not necessarily comply with C-Tick requirements. Often a report assessment is required to determine if the applicable AS/NZS standard was used and if the report format contains all of the required information. If a product has a CE marking the importer is still required to hold a compliance folder, fill out a declaration of conformity and affix the C-Tick label to the product. If you are looking to export to Europe you will need to comply with the European EMC and Low Voltage Directives and affix the CE mark.

    More details in “www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/Compliance-Engineering/C-Tick-and-Supplier-Obligations-3318”

  133. wow…………adam rocks ..

    thank you so much for the post rohan. you deserve a good rest .
    i can’t stop dreaming of ordering adam for me

    @family

    time to celebrate this wonderful news from rohan

  135. Is it just me or do the people on this blog seem like a nest of hungry baby birds, mouths open wide, waiting for mommy bird (Rohan) to drop a worm into their mouths…..? Give him a break, and by the way I’m one of the hungry babies.

  136. Question to those who got their adam already if they can break away from the device for a sec to make a post or post on it (i am jealous) I ask: is the mystery feature really an FM radio? have you listened to the radio on it yet?

    Also, if you have an external HD, Does the Adam recognize your external drive if it is formated in FAT32?

    Can you use the adam like a cell phone as many of the video’s have shown the adam with cellphone signal strength bars and a phone app.

    Did all your dreams come true when you rubbed it 3X?

    Can it be blended in a blender?

    Thanks guys!

  137. Under these circumstances, we have to respect both NI as well as FCC / CE…

    If not for the restrictions placed by these organizations… many electronic gadgets could play havoc with our safety…

  138. well – really – if you could give us some dates as to when both the LCD and pixel qi could both be available that would be great. I have not ruled out the pixel qi but I have only a short window where I can buy. As long as I get an adam I will be happy but I will be quite sad if I have to settle for soemthing other than an adam. Please don’t let me get sad…..

  139. To be clear Motorola did a fake introduction.Videos of the interface is not the same as running it.
    It was just a ploy to get attention for a dying Motorola. There was a reason they did it this way and the machines should be read very carefull and then you all understand why Motorola will make this. Hint: be aware of tie-ins…..

  140. For some reason the new post doesn’t show up on the main page of the blog unless I’m logged in. Though, in both cases the entry is listed to the right…

  141. Rohan

    Adam pictures looks awesome.

    Thanks for this post ,I am full of smile now 🙂

  142. As for leaving flash out, THANK YOU. It is so irritating to have a device in which flash is always used. I make a habit to never use flash unless I’m in a really dim situation because I hate glare in photos.

  144. It does, but there is room for a specially designed one for the power supply, some sd cards and usb sticks. a spare battery and a form which accomodates the rounded part of the Adam in a smart way so that you have these accessories above it. It carries best with the rounded part at the low end of course.

    On CES there were interested sleeve makers to which I suggested the above usage of the specifics of the Adam.

  148. @AlbertWertz

    Nice logic .though I live ininsai, nor lucky enough to get a chance to order 🙂 . So you idea is amusing 🙂

    Waiting soooo eagerly for my turn order our adam

  150. I don´t understand the problem. There is a well designed virtual keyboard on adam and the after market already large amount of usb or bluetooth enabled portable keyboards. Maybe I just miss your point?

  151. I ordered Adam for a replacement of my Vaio. I want to work on spreadsheets so I am thinking of a portable keyboard if I feel the need of an actual keyboard.

  154. BTW -does the “week of 11th” you agreed to in the Liliputing interview still hold?

  155. Congratulations Rohan!!!
    I’m also waiting im/patiently in Australia. My shipping date is 15-22 Jan and hope FCC/CE won’t be an issue for us.

  156. Thanks for the update Rohan…Highly appreciated..as always, have 2 questions for you,

    1. Are you shipping to Australia without waiting for FCC or CE certification, with my limited knowledge on this topic, i dont think you need either to sell here

    2. ###Important: Post CES….the internet is a buzz with +ve reaction to ADAM, but most of them have expressed concern for Eden with Honeycomb expected to being “super good”. As you’ve already mentioned, NI is more then Eden but as NotionInk team has spent considerable amount of time on this developing Eden can you clarify if Eden will be scaled down or will honeycomb work as a catalyse to eden’s development?

  157. that is what he said. once NVidea delivers the BSP, NI will push the udpate to the current adam version. it is very clear and so far there are no hardware restrictions for the 1st gen adam to have honeycomb.

  159. Awesome NI team, you guys must be enjoying the videos taken everywhere during CES commending the gr8 job done by you and your colleagues.

    Rohan, thanks for clarifying the doubts on Honeycomb. The leaf concept itself and drag drop from panel to leaf itself changes the whole UI use and experience, and that my friend has already set the Adam in a league apart from all the other tablets in the market. Your last comment on design is very apt, as we see in Adam (and Apple too till Adam becomes common) 😉

  160. Hi Rohan, for pre-order2, pls release more memory variants too. also pls open lcd version even if pqi is not available.

  162. Thank you Rohan! It was a great show at CES.
    You deserve some rest and then give us an update.

    I’d appreciate to see proud owners of adam tablet to post few comments now

  163. The thing to remember us this: you will have to pay an extra charge for that service and data will be limited to 2 or 5 GB depending on your plan with a charge of $10/GB if you go over.

    Personally, I have a rooted (semi-hacked) Android phone. Not only do I not have extra charges for tendering but it is unlimited.

    The other thing to remember is that WiFi tether is a real battery-drain. Probably around 2 hours of steady use, but you can charge the phone from Adam. Also, when tendering you won’t be able to make or answer phone calls because Verizon doesn’t allow simultaneously using voice and data.

    Hope that helped.

  164. Congrats on getting home safely. I hope TSA didn’t give you any trouble.
    Did the ADAMs have any issue with TSA or their screening procedures?
    e.g passed through the x-ray machines or just a visual power on inspection? Didn’t end up being confiscated ;>

  166. I’m having trouble believing people have their adam, yet not one person posted anything substantial…pictures, videos…proof. Maybe his real family got one. I also don’t think he’s lying…so there has to be a reason for the silence.

  167. Walk up and down the isle every so often with my Adam in plain sight for everyone to see and drool over. 😉

  168. People who already got their adam are too busy playing with it that they wont tell us 😐
    open up preorder2 for the rest of us Rohan

  171. Can’t wait for the shipping to be avaible for europe!!!
    When will it be possible to finally place an order again? i can’t wait for my adam to arrive!

  172. My shipping date is also the 15th-22nd of Jan.

    I’m just glad that Adam won’t have to take a detour though Brisbane, since it is under water. That could take quite some time!

  173. There are people who got one. It really exists.
    And for the person who asked if it easy through the airport scanners. I was scared as I forgot to take it out of it´s sleeve and I was asked to come for a real inspection of my stuff…..

    Turned out I had a forgotten tin of coke and I was offered to go back through the machine to drink it 🙂

    So no problems.

  175. Thanks for that info Manjunath. We’ve waited this long, a Little longer won’t hurt us.

    @Greg
    Feel free to come over to Australia. Just avoid the floods and bushfires and it’s actually a very nice place to live 🙂

  176. @jared said, on January 12, 2011 at 07:24
    Many reasons…
    They are probably learning the Adam first (they don’t want to ]rush anything, and be embarrassed). This process can take a long time. Then they will show it to their relatives, then their friends, then they will bring it to their work place. Their boss will probably hijack it for a few days. Then…some will not show it in public. Most people don’t like to publish this kind of stuff. So, only a handful of people will eventually publish within a week. By then I think Greg will get his, and publish the first unwrapping of Adam.

  177. I know it exists. Are you saying you’re 1 of the lucky few that received 1. And you had a chance to fly with that already? if so, please post some pics, we would all really appreciate that, thank you

  178. I’ve got to ask, what exactly is the hold up?

    If I remember correctly;
    “FCC: We shared the information that it is expected in early 20s. Even if it gets delayed, it will be in December, and this is specifically the reason why first Adam will only be shipped on 6th January.”

    This was posted on Dec 10th. I know you can’t push it through the fcc but was there some paperwork that didn’t get filed or something?

    I feel like I’m in the Atlanta airport waiting on a Delta flight.

  179. Thanks for all the info.

    Enjoy your well deserved rest.
    Cant wait to get my hands on my Adam.. counting down the days impatiently.

    Cheers,
    Arun

  180. Absolutely! I have my money burning a hole in my drawer waiting for my chance to purchase on round 2. Please give us an idea of when we can expect to see another round of pre-orders!

  184. congrats on the success of the Adam at CES. Definitely good new for you and for each of us we have ordered the Adam.
    As for the camera not having flash. Yes I agree, the best pictures are taken without a flash unless you own a really good flash. but then these flash’s run in 100’s of $ & I’m not sure can be reproduced on a device like the Adam.
    Having said that, there are times when a small, cell phone flash is useful especially if you can somehow adjust the flash exposure, if you can do something to adjust that then you could potentially have a very powerful macro camera! (macro flash’s don’t need much power, just the right amount of light)
    On a final note… I didn’t know you were a Nikon person : (((( All serious photographers have to use Canon 😀

  185. The Adam has a swivel camera. So you can put the Adam flat on any surface & take photos.

  186. @ Rohan – pics from the camera look great. Just waiting for my Adam in India. A week to go.
    @ Greg – Hope the wait is not too long. For once doesn’t India seem like the place to be :-p ! 🙂

  189. Congrats!!!!! CES was a hit in my opinion and as you put it “dogged persistence” paid off.

    Pics look good. Looking forward to receiving ADAM.

    Suggestion about website:
    1) Please use a bigger resolution so that you have more real estate to put content
    2) Have a feedback form (sidebar or otherwise) for on each page so that anyone can quickly provide feedback
    3) Please put the mystery feature = radio on tech specs
    4) Please host your videos on one site only so that anyone doesn’t need account on multiple services (Right now I need a WP/Youtube/Vimeo to all content and provide comments)
    5) Have a news/announcements/in press section on main website for all announcements. For non technical users visiting blogs is a big no no.

  190. Whats wrong with Nikon. 🙂 I have seen many professionals carry one especially the ones who cover weddings.
    I feel both companies have brought innovation to the table.

  192. Delta flight, lol thats funny.

    With the FCC, any delay is possible. I’m curious if it will still show up (when the FCC clears it) with Y2G or some other ID. Rohan did say he did something to make it harder to find. Unless he meant the confidentiality clause.

  195. +1. Yep that’s a obvious reason. NI wants to hang on for long so they would update asap. Rohan, please have a peaceful sleep and in the next post update about pre-order 2( I think you are waiting for pre-orders 1 to be all delivered and see the response, that would be too late for us 😦 ).

  197. The problem with a flash is that it’s a point source, and usually extremely intense flare (for a regular camera / xenon flash). It’s good between a certain range, depending on how far the subject is and how good the flash is.

    The preferable light source is actually a diffuse light, which is why you see in the movies and model shoots the light source being pointed away into an umbrella-like object. i.e. a lower intensity, spread out light would make picture-taking with flash so much better.

    A small compact camera or phone doesn’t really have the space or battery to have anything larger, so they make do. The Nexus One will automatically decrease it’s light levels to make sure most of the image is not washed out. =)

    Btw, what is the video recorder resolution?

  198. Great job at CES, NI team!

    Would there be any tracking numbers for deliveries? I promise I will not tire out my F5 key and patiently wait in Singapore (No FCC/CE here!)

  199. Wouldn’t I have been traveling (moved home to a different city – no address to order) during the pre-order release with only access to internet via iPhone, I would have enjoyed adam along with you guys.

    I thought pre-order 2 would be available during CES (no announcements too), disappointed with CES totally (Rohan, its just a pre-order 2 disappointment only and not with adam)

  200. Thats an ongoing battle between me and my elder brother.

    I honestly think there is no reason for fight. Nikon is THE camera and lens maker.
    (I think I have heard the name Canon somewhere. :)) )

  203. Aha! I am glad you mentioned it. I had actually written to NI that with Adam II they might consider adding a tripod mount to the chassis. The standard 1/4″ threaded tripod mount socket. Not only can you use it as a photographic or video monitor, you can also use it as a music stand when the e-book reader shows notated music. All sort of video peripherals attach to this very standard socket, so physically mounting Adam in all kinds of field situations becomes very easy. And it would be a simple thing to do! The only question is, do you provide the socket for portrait mode or landscape mode?

  205. Think in terms of bluetooth or usb keyboards. you have the simplicity of a tablet when not at work and full keyboard productivity when you need it.

  206. wow… great news coming from everywhere…
    this new year will definitely belong to NI Adam…
    really waiting badly for Adam lcd+3g…
    get some good rest n all the very best…

  207. i’m pretty shock you’re using a nikon…..

    canon product give better image quality all the way………….disappointed in your Rohan….

    anyway, the truth is, i own the Canon 5D Mark II and if anyone aware, that camera does not have a flash and i rarely use my speedlit attachment. yes flash is rarely used unless you need strong contrast…like night photos, product shots, or even portraits. and plus i prefer to use natural light.

    anyway, not to offend people, but most people i see use point and shot camera always use flash oftentimes ruin the picture. and yes, i dont recommend using Adam as your main camera. unless the mysterious feature is Image Stabilizer ………lol

  208. Android User: You know why Apple products are so shiny.
    Apple User : Why?
    Android User: Because product research shows when you see your own reflection, you can’t help but stop and look at it. Therefore increasing patience.
    Apple User : So the shinier it is, the better it is?
    Android User: You missed the point!

  211. Can’t wait to get my hands on Adam.. Waiting desperately for my pre-order to arrive.. and good to see your post.. days feel really incomplete without reading your new posts..

  212. Glad your home safely Rohan. You did a great job exposing Adam to the public at ces.

    Thank you for your tireless effort and developing Adam a product so many await delivery of with much excitement. Thanks go as well to your team at Notion Ink.

  213. Not if your smart and root your DX like I’ve done to mine and get one of many free wifi tether apps straight from the market. Im doing the exact same thing with my wifi only adam. 🙂

  214. Rohan needs to let us know which countries are receiving it (just to set expectation). I am in India and don’t really know if I am getting mine (although it ships only on the 15th ;-)) or I will have to wait until labelling is done. I know that in India you don’t need any type approval so the devices ought to be shipped here.

    I know that NI sold about 60% of the devices in the US (so we have a lot of anxious folks there) and about 10% in India (this was in one of Rohan’s interviews). He said the rest 30% was in Europe and other countries. From our blog I know of people in Argentina, South Africa, Australia, Chile and Nigeria who has ordered (or so I think). Have any of you guys received the device?

    As for India, I think Ganesh was on the 9th list. Dude, do let us know as soon as you received it. Please!

    Separately, if those in the US aren’t getting their stuff for a week, can you advance my shipping by giving me the devices that they were entitled to? Assuming of couse that India is in the permitted list.

  216. Since my new Adam won’t be arriving until February the next best thing will be seeing posting of photos and videos of new Adams having arrived with their new owners. At first they should be too excited to get anything on camera, but within a few days hopefully things will start to pop up. We will not know all we want about Adam until our particular unit arrives in our hands. Even then many questions will still be asked. Hopefully Notion Ink will come up with a good way to address the new owners inquries.

  217. +100 for the tripod mount socket
    That is an amazing idea. Minor change, major impact. That opens a new perspective in usability!

  219. Here’s the India connection. The original Canon name, after an early model, was Kwanon, based on Kwan Yin, the Chinese (female) version of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. The first lens they made was named Kasyapa, after one of the Buddha’s primary disciples Maha Kashyapa, the only one in the congregation who understood the Buddha’s meaning one morning when, instead of his usual sermon, the Buddha silently held up a lotus. Having understood, Maha Kashyapa smiled. Thus Zen. From the Sanskrit ‘dhyana’, of course, via the Chinese Ch’an.

  222. +1. If honeycomb goes through Tegra Compatibility check then I presume that implies that the Adam becomes compatible with Honeycomb.Thanks for the Heads up Rohan.

  223. This is a pointless conversation. If the user is an Apple exponent then the conversation becomes a religious discussing as they don’t see anything but Apple. =D I have learn’t to just accept Apple users as they will not changes. When I first was confronted with Apple was in Graphic Design. The looks that I got from Apple users when talking graphics and PC’s was increadable. Bottom line my argument to them was who cares. So long as I was able to deliver and the customer paid.
    Discussions about iPad and adam or any other table is not a technology discussion it is a religious one and one to stay away from 🙂

  225. Rohan can you take some photos of the different adam’s with the LCD and the QI screen so we can see the difference?

  226. Cant wait for some user reviews and videos of the adam in owners hands. That what I want to see. Then we can all start calling honeycomb zoom tablets vaporware. He he

  229. It’s not about the spices, or the kind of food. It’s about a different bacterial makeup. The same thing happens in other countries, like Mexico. And just so we’re clear, I’m not saying the food is “dirty”. American food has bacteria in it too, but our intestines are used to it.

    At least, that’s what I understand. Now how did we get onto this subject again?… 🙂

  230. tendering? You had the tendering typo more than once 🙂 … almost making it look like an alternate word for tethering:)

  232. good!
    I expect this device for a long time!
    hope anyone post the open-box video soon!

    good luck for everybody here!

  233. You know what else has become a religious discussion? Economics. Try telling people that immigration doesn’t hurt the economy, you will get some looks that would make a Windows-using graphics designer jealous! 🙂

  234. It’s more than that, the first book that Tolkien published in 1937 was actually called: “The Hobbit or There and Back Again”.
    So, yeah, I, and a bout a gazillion other people also I’m sure, did notice.

  235. That was very interesting. I would like to hear more. But I must admit, I have absolutely no idea what you just said. 🙂

    How does this explain why he uses a Nikon?

  237. I was typing on my phone because we are in the middle of a storm and I didn’t have power. I think that “tendering” is a good new term for tethering. 😛

  239. It is not rohan’s camera… it is the camera used by reviewers from anand tech (no connection to me)

    However, My connection to Il Magnifico’s story is that my son is named Kashyap !!

  241. Yeah, I ordered an AT&T compatible 3G Pixel Qi adam, but I am now thinking about getting a Mifi from Virgin for unlimited data at $40 per month instead of an AT&T plan.

  243. I’m very excited to see this product coming together. Your exclusion of flash on the camera is a good choice, because LED flash doesn’t work all that well. I’ve worked as a photographer for the Technician at NC State University, and never used flash. Flash is only good for ~30 ft, and even then the light is overpowering close to the camera and leaves your background in the dark. What I would use the Adam’s camera for (mostly recording lectures), a flash on that kind of form factor would go unused.

  246. I don’t believe that it’s his camera, hover over the image and look at the tooltip. It says “AnandTech’s review’s Camera” this leads me to believe that AnandTech may be reviewing an Adam soon 😀

  249. I’m actually not too familiar with his views. Personally I tend to lean towards the Monetarist camp, but I haven’t exactly “settled.” I DO think its very funny that the economic model that most accurately describes our current economy is the Keynesian one…

    Mostly I just hate it when people say “If ____ continues, everything will go to crap.”

    Hyper-inflation? Nope. High interest rates? Nope. Foreign countries economically subverting America? Nope. Don’t people get tired of being wrong?

    (and that’s enough econ-babble for one blog post… 🙂 )

  250. *I* got the point. You’re saying Adam isn’t shiny enough. I can fix that, I have a roll of saran-wrap with my Adam’s name on it… 🙂

  251. No he won’t. They will save copies of his pictures and post them on their own site. Then they will discuss it with their readers, and the readers will say “thank you for posting these.”

    It already happened to me, and I’m new in this industry. It’s just how it works.

  252. Well I am actually thinking of buying a mac. I want to work for Google, and well they hate windows. Plus it actually is a marketing technique to make products shiner so it will seem like they are faster. Elevators are really the perfect example.
    Since elevators take a long time to drop passengers off and get back to you customers at a hotel explained. The hotel had analyst come in and try to make the elevators go faster. The analyst concluded their was no way to make the elevators go faster. So instead they concluded they should make the customers more patient. After extensive studies they found placing mirrors outside elevators actually made customers interpret the wait time as shorter.
    Therefore by analytical reasoning Rohan is really showing off the power of his device by making it matte.

  253. Thanks for the post. I hope you get some rest, Rohan.

    The one time flash on my phone has come in handy is for a nighttime portrait snapshot – to light the subject, but showing the lights in the dark background. Will probably continue using my phone or other camera for that. A variety of cameras for a variety of shots. I too have Canon…

  254. GalaxyTab is getting priced competitevly Verizon $499 (no contract), t-mobile $349 (2-yr contract) and att $549. Adam now looks at the same pricing (more on features wise).

    Rohan, can you shut us all on pixel Qi’s video quality (washed out comment from engadget)

  255. I personally hate using flash. It is only useful for very specific shots. But it is still a must to have a complete system.

    Since adam would be rarely used as my camera, I don’t mind. Would love to check the picture quality though.

    Could you post some high resolution pics for us to check, please?

  256. Still not better. Either $500 for less and worse, or $350 for less, worse, and a monthly bill for the next two years. Even if that bill is only $25 (same as some phone data plans), you are paying $950 for the device on TMO. I’d rather have the option to not pay for data service…

    As far as PQ, we have already seen lots of pics and videos. People generally say that there is a *very slight* reduction in color saturation. You have to look closely to even tell, and you get better battery life, plus the option to use it outside.

  257. I am also waiting patiently in Australia for delivery of my adam. Like the others I hope the FCC and CE doesn’t affect us.

    Congratulations to Rohan and the NI team at CES 2011, all the information and the blogs posted were amazing. I have never been in love with an electonic object before but when i discovered this blog when looking to research what tablet I should purchase and the devout and passionate fans and followers of the adam i fell in love with it and the dream of owning one.

    @greg

    I do wish you get yours soon and look forward to your review.

  259. That is so frightening… Are we really such sheep?

    I would be outraged about this, but I keep catching my reflection in the window, and it’s distracting me…
    …….
    ……
    ……
    Wait, what were we talking about?

  260. +1
    I can apply the label myself. Just ship me some glue, and one of those plastic scraper thingies…

    Or email me the number, and I’ll pay to have it laser-engraved on the back, if it’ll mean getting it soon…

  261. Yes I agree. Verizon pricing is good. But I am not personally settling for anything less than adam. Where are pixel Qi videos (I see the one demoing in sunlight). Can you refer me to the pixel Qi version video displaying some vivid colorl video

  262. I would love to have a moleskine folio type of case. Moleskine already makes one for iPad and the Kobo reader.

    “http://www.moleskine.com/about_us/news/moleskine_covers_for_iphone_and_ipad.php”

    It looks slick enough to take with you on an interview. All leather.

  263. “http://androidcommunity.com/notion-ink-honeycomb-delay-explained-along-android-18-month-lines-20110111/”

    Glad to see the drastic increase on the number of Adam fans , a good sign of that is ,
    whenever there is a misguiding info posted on any tech blog abt adam, we immediately counteract and sort things out ! 😀

    “An army is essential to protect a Nation but its the faith and trust that keeps the Nation intact”

  265. yes, please!

    PLEASE give him immediately. He deserves and he will tell others how to get the best out of Adam!

  267. I wouldn’t be surprised if that gap in time had something to do with the rear trackpad debacle or patent issues.

  268. Actually, I just sent them a detailed suggestion for a special Adam case. If you’d like a classy high-quality leather padfolio-style case for Adam, head on over to….

    “http://www.moleskine.com/contact_us.php?lang_id=4&categoria=198”

    And send them a suggestion! Maybe they’ll make one that’s fitted to Adam. Tell them Joshua Price sent you…

  269. marcdimmick:
    > This is a pointless conversation. If the user is an Apple exponent then the conversation becomes a religious

    Oh, blah. Jason told a joke, and a very good one, I think. You sound like the kind of person who pees on campfires when kids are trying to roast marshmallows.

  272. Well said!
    What NI has done with Eden and Genesis is really unique (extremely difficult and time consuming) and even tech commentators seem to have criticized this approach.

    In fact NI will be ahead of others (including Google) and having its own top layer over stock Android, NI will be able to give its customers newer versions much much faster than others (like Motorola, Samsung..). There are many phones out there yet to get Froyo. Even Nexus One (which I have) is yet to get the OTA upgrade of Gingerbread!

  273. I’ve never been to India, but I’ve certainly eaten a lot of street and other dubious food in 3rd-world countries and never had any trouble, nor has anyone else who’s followed my advice, which is:

    (1) Use your nose and only eat where locals eat;
    and (2) take activated charcoal capsules or tablets, available in many (although not all) drugstores near the PeptoBismol, also very commonly available in many countries. I take 2 in the morning, 2 at night, and 2 with especially dubious food (which isn’t common). Don’t take it at the same time as you take medications, since it will adsorb them.

  277. Rohan and team: Welcome back and thanks for the update and picts.

    My hope is that i can annotate the pictures “on-the-fly” directly on the Adam. I do video and video editing. Using the Adam to take a picture and annotate it for scene direction and storyboard alone would make Adam worth it to me. As for picture quality, Adam is more than adequate for most of what I do. When I want excellent pictures I’ll use my DSLR.

    Now I just need to be patient for one to two more weeks. But I can’t wait!! I want my Adam now!

  278. Rohan please fix the aspect ratio of the camera… 4:3 is dead now all the screens including Adam has 16:9 ratio

  281. Rohan,

    Congratulations on your fine efforts at CES! Get some rest and keep us informed of the Pre-Order 2 status!

  283. What cameras have you used that take pictures in 16:9? The only reason that “4:3 is dead” is because the screens in theaters use that aspect ratio. Movies are always shot in 16:9 so they will fit properly on the theater screen. I’ve never seen a normal shooter actually take 16:9 pictures.

  284. Rohan,

    Good that we now know how and what about FCC & CE.
    But what about the mentioned pre-order 2?

  285. or may be he typed it already in flight on a Adam and it got posted after landing and finding a connection 😉

  286. May be Rohan is saying that they are shipped (to those buyers not in US/EU), but those buyers are yet to receive (customs delays) them. So we may have to wait few more days!

  287. I must admit, I am somewhat amused by the image of a gecko wandering around New Delhi, sniffing and eating charcoal.

    On another note, I have actually eaten Iraqi food and had no problems. I was in an Iraqi household, and these two young children kept giving me food. As soon as I ate it, they would appear with more, and stand there to make sure I liked it. It was very good, but after a while I got full, but I couldn’t figure out how to tell them! They were extremely hospitable people.

  288. Welcome back rohan!it feels nice to see adam getting thumbs up from every1,job welldone for u,get rest bro,u totally deserv it!

    I think The honeycomb on adam will b a customised version for the added features as done with eden!pictures taken r nice,can we expect some nice camera apps?

    And dude,what about the discounts for us students?i missed on the preorder1,please let us know when the preorder2 starts!!

    Finally,i remember once u showed us ur patriotic side by the tiranga work on adam!as republic day is on 26th,can u ship it with that colour scheme for us indians?it would b very nice!
    Anyways keep up the gud work,get some rest,we dont wanna see u getting sick with the travelling exahaustion(by any chance u saw the new tv ad for perks chocolate,where the guy faints after his mom reads that long list!that guy frm it looks very much like u!) ok,i’ll stop now.cheers!

  289. People who have their Adams are probably busy playing with it, instead of sharing the good news. =P

  290. that was a gecko comment 😉

    I guess reading comments and analyzing characters unintentionally have become 2nd nature to most of us here.

  292. May be Rohan is saying that adams are shipped (to those buyers not in US/EU), but those buyers are yet to receive (customs delays) them. So we may have to wait few more days!

  294. Since the Motorola Xoom is running a Tegra 2 I assume that means that Nvidia has already had a chance to ensure that honeycomb is stable on the Tegra or at least has already begun so I’m sure we won’t have to wait to long on that. Really can’t wait for Pre-order 2 will there be Mastercard this time? I couldn’t order in the first pre-order because of that. Can’t you start pre-order 2 early for those not in FCC countries?

  300. May be someone already asked this question, but will it be possible to turn off Eden when Honeycomb is installed on the device? While Eden looks fantastic, I would like to experience plain vanilla Honeycomb without having to root the damn thing and installing it separately on Adam or having to buy another tablet. It would simply be great to be able to run Honeycomb once in a while.

  301. hehe! no need to fight but it did get me thinking, what’s the lens on the Adam??? the pictures uploaded by Rohan are quite nice.

    ps: the reason most indian photographers carry Nikon is becuase they’re cheaper and easier to get here, not to say they’re bad camera’s. end of the day photography has so much to do with skill, these camera becomes a bottleneck only if you’re really really good!

  302. May be someone already asked this question, but will it be possible to turn off Eden when Honeycomb is installed on the device? While Eden looks fantastic, I would like to experience plain vanilla Honeycomb without having to root the damn thing and installing it separately on Adam or having to buy another tablet. It would be great to be able to run Honeycomb once in a while

  303. Yeah, I bet he’s dying to get his hands on the tablet. I’m sure most of you would be thrilled to get one without the label (and receive the label later or not), but there is a side you’re not considering – would the customs office release the tablet to you if the device didn’t have the certification on it? I’m positive for my country that I would never get the tablet since I was specifically told the device must have CE certification or else such item would not clear customs. 😦 Sorry for being a bit of a killjoy..

  304. actually you could maybe use the accelerometer to do some compensation! will experiment and see how that turns out…
    5D M II that’s my next camera, but a good flash (bounce flash) is a very useful tool to have in your bag. Its also great when you’re trying to use it as a fill flash! but then, I don’t think the Adam (or any tablet) will ever be able to get that much out of a flash… if they have it, it’ll be a silly little led flash that has two modes, on/off!
    the only real use i can see for it. use it as a flashlight at night 😀

  305. Joshua,
    Both of my Kodak digital cameras shoot 16:9 and also both take HD Video in 16:9.
    They also take 4:3 but since my TV is 16:9 and I use it as my slide projector too, I take all my stuff in that format now.

  306. btw, does anyone know about the SDK??? When is it going to be released?

    @rohan any comments on the SDK?

  307. Why not just sticking a label on the bottom side of the microsdh/SIM trays?
    Wouldn´t that look better and match the attention the CE & FCC deserves? 😉

  308. Agreed. I can hardly keep my desire to buy some gadget in place. If (pre-)orders don’t start soon, I’m afraid I’ll spend a bit of money I have saved up for Adam and in the end miss this round as well 😮

  310. @Rohan, those countries, where labels are not required, you will send the labels as a shipment later or you are sending the Adams with blank spaces where one can fill the numbers once you have them and post in this blog/ official site?

    BTW, take some rest Bro, you need it ! 🙂

  311. A minor coding attribute you may want to consider if its not already implemented – it’d be nice to blow up a leaf to occupy the full display – although this functionality may not always be used, it’d be nice to blow up android apps such as games and various software packages unavailable through Eden so they’re at least as usable as the other android tablets (Xoom and Galaxy for example).

    This is more of a remark when you get android store accessibility up, as I suspect eden apps already provide functionality, but it is a somewhat indispensable feature for market place apps, which adam will eventually have to populate with to start competitive.

  312. hi rohan and all,
    nice to have you back.Just saw the post.Know you r tired ,when u come back from rest please try to answer one question, will we have any big announcements or ofiicial release for our adam?.No dates required rohan just to know whether we have r not.Want to see a big release like Rajani films 🙂 🙂

  313. now these are some seriously great images 😀

    Congrats rohan on your success at CES….. and congrats to your amazing teram at NI…

    each one deserves a big THANK YOU

  315. Clarification:
    Well people, what I meant here was:
    Though I know that NI is sending without labels to countries where it is not a requirement – these people might relocate in future – and it would be handy if they had the CE and FCC numbers on the device. So in effect, it would be my suggestion that NI ships them the labels (after confirming that they can send label(s) to the same shipping address as their Adam).

    or Have labels with blank spaces, where the end customers can later fill in the numbers – using permanent stickers or markers.

  316. But your answer proves my point. Your camera can shoot 4:3. That means that when you snap a picture, the data/light that makes up the top and bottom of the picture is captured. The lens aperture doesn’t change shape, so that means that all pictures are really taken in 4:3, and the top and bottom data is removed.

    Think of a circle (or draw one). This is the shape of the lens. Since the picture is square, draw a box in the circle. This represents the picture that you see. You can draw a box in the 4:3 format, that would cut out a sizable section on the top and bottom of the circle (assuming that the four corners meet the circle).

    Now draw another box, this time in 16:9 format. Less space is cut from the sides, but more is cut from the top and bottom. Either way, the light gathered is always in the same shape, but you can choose how much to record.

    The point is that the aspect ratio isn’t “broken.” The camera is built like all others. The firmware just expects that the user wants a certain format, because that’s what it is set to.

    I’m sure that it could be changed by a third party dev if need be.

    BTW, I’m not a camera expert by any means, I’m just explaining what makes sense to me. If I’m completely wrong and misinformed, do let me know. (It’s like 1 am here, and I’m working on 4 hours of sleep)

  317. @family

    i am so eagerly waiting for a UNBOX video like u all .

    some body please update here 🙂

  321. @ Greg,
    Yup, the photos really look good. Though many here might have better camera phones or digital cameras, having a good cam with you (in Adam), could turn out to be priceless – to capture those special moments, which you might miss otherwise!

  322. I’m also waiting for my Adam. Can anybody tell me, which micro SD card would be the best for Adam? In my search I’ve found many different kinds. Now I don’t know which one to get. I’m planning on a 32 gb. Thanks.

  324. Rohan, what happened to the arrangement of the tabs around the semi-circle? They are all showing as horizontal instead of radial as was shown originally in a previous blog.

  325. as far as legalities go…

    whether you put ubuntu, any other form of linux, a plain vanilla android with honeycomb… it is as good as root… and therefore you loose warranty… until / unless a iPhoneDev equivalient provides the ability to go back…

    however, unlike apple, rohan & team, at this point will not go out of the way, to plug hardware / software loopholes that will help you achieve the same…

    further, they will be running eden on honeycomb pretty soon… faster than Xoom, for sure… as Xoom will be tied to US Phone companies… so their release of updates is generally 2-4 months later than an android release… whereas NI is not tied to nobody !! (speaking my californian)

  326. Rohan
    you have done well by not giving time range for us Europe . I know it us difficult to wait for us – but time goal increases innecessory pressure on notion ink – especially when FCC ce Id not really in your control. We will wait . (Only because you are very good!)
    yours
    shiva

  327. Watch the videos carefully, They are arranged radially, although the arrangement is quite subtle.

  329. These images are spectacular for a 3.2MP camera. It will be ample for most day-to-day activities that may require a camera (like capturing slides, etc). I hope the video recording capability is also stellar. Of course, a professional photographer will have issues with the camera, but then, he will have a professional camera 🙂

    I really hope the labelling issue is sorted out quickly. I am too excited. I cant wait for the next batch of ADAMs to sell out (though on a more serious note, I hope they wont) 🙂

    If anybody has received their ADAMs this is for them: “Stop fawning over it, reply to this post from your ADAM. Share pics, videos. Enjoy and let us watch ( 😦 ) you enjoy..”

  330. “Adam has already reached some of its owners”

    Any idea on when Genesis will open?

    What’s included in the ADAM box (in terms of accessories)?

  331. Slight correction, some cameras come with native 16:9 CCD’s. But my understanding is that these are rare, and that most cameras just take a 16:9 shot out of a 4:3 shot, which can reduce the quality a bit. The point is that Adam is not out of place shooting 4:3 pictures.

  332. Hi Rohan and followers,

    Nice pictures. I’d really like to see some close-up pictures with different color in one frame. I have worked a lot with mobile phones in the past. And it helped me t jdge a camera by making a picture of some colours and compare them to the real thig. Especially red and blue were often not that great on a cellphone camera. These days the chipset and camera are improved but since Adam uses a 3.2M camera I’d like to know how the camera handles contrast and color. And I’d really like to see how a picture looks like when taken at night. Is it possible for you to take a shot of the hotel at night??

    Rohan, you say you anticipated on the little information on Honeycomb to make it possible for Eden. But then you say INVIDIA has to first make it stable on Tegra. So are you involved in the progress of Honeycomb and Nvidia as a OEM? Do you have a BSP for Adam?

  333. does the lcd version of the adam have more vibrant colors than the pixel qi variation.

  334. @ajesh

    while (true)
    {
    ++100000000
    }

    a mega release for our adam . tons of teaser trailers 🙂 every where
    wow then the air will be charged with adam .
    yep, i hope NI planned everything in advance and they are just executing one bye one i think. Long live our adam

  335. Rohan,
    When will EAP2 launch? Any news on that yet?

    Funny, I only figured out to pronounce Pixel Qi as “Pixel Chi” when I was watching the CES videos. By the way I’ve had a blast watching all the reviews and interviews.
    On my desktop I have a google gadget counter counting down towards the delivery of my Adam (worst case scenario 22 januari… right? lol)

    Can’t wait to integrate with Eden with my dev projects. So release the SDK asap!

    Greetz,

    Mike

  336. Upgrading the SDK to Gingerbread might be even more work than upgrading Eden itself, so I suspect that its still in the works.

  338. Rohan, thank you for the update. Hope you had a nice trip and a plesant flight home.
    I’ll keep my fingers crossed for all of us so that the FCC and CE certification will be finalized as soon as possible. I’ll also keep my fingeres crossed that the (pre-)orders will be available again soon 😀

  345. @Sid: Even in India Nikon lens are more costlier than Canon(in the same category). There is no alternative to the Canon 50 mm f/1.8(nifty fifty) which is 99$ in Nikon(which can be used even in Non AF camera). Moreover I totally agree with your last line. It’s the one who is behind the camera matters and not the camera(I follow “Dpreview.com” and many a times see spectacular pics clicked by Canon1000D rather than Canon 550 D).

  346. If there will be an official forum of adam, I would love to see thew pics clicked by your 5D M II as well as the videos of adam 🙂

  351. With such a small area for the sensor itself, you’re going to run into noise issues, and it’s quite evident in the darker areas of the posted pictures (if you click into the pictures).

    That said, if you’re viewing on the adam itself, this won’t be much of an issue. 3.2MP is about 2048*1536, which means that the display – at best – can only display half (1024*600) of the picture. Downsampling a noisy photo will almost always result in a clean picture, which is why they look detailed when resized (the picture inlined into the article).

    I’ll be curious to see how good / bad the video conferencing in a darkened environment will be with just the display’s back light providing the majority of the light source. There may need to be bright white borders around the screen to help light the user’s face up =)

  353. @ Veeraraagavan

    I agree. Although the CE and FCC codes of my devices have never been checked when traveling, I would hate it when they take my Adam from me when I am entering the US or Europe, so getting a label anyway would be absolutely great service.

  354. Appeal to those who have already received theirs:

    Please share your joy with the dear internet.
    Blog post/ Unboxing/ handware hands-on/ software run-through/ hdmi demos/ you know, the works.

    Show us your delighted faces!

  355. Had One more Doubt ,This time regarding External hard disk for a change :). I will also be buying a external HDD of 640 GB(Transcend). It’s available in Both USB 3.0 compatible and USB 2.0 compatible. My question is as far as i know adam’s port are USB 2.0 compatible. Though USB 3.0 is also backward compatible with 2.0 but then will I be able to use the enhanced features of USB 3.0? Like higher speed etc? Or will it only be possible with USB 3.0 ports? Hope NI launches it’s official forum soon where we can discuss these questions much more easily 🙂

  357. +100. If too shy to show yourself in videos, atleast show us the adam only :). I am sure the first video will be a major hit on you tube. So guys and girls this is your chance to come in Lime Light 🙂

  358. USB 3.0 is backward comnpatible to USB 2.0. But using new specs of USB 3.0 you also need the appropriate interface. So easy answer would be: No, the USB 3.0 HDD will behave like a USB 2.0 device overall. The adam will not recognize that it is actually USB 3.0.

  359. @Rohan

    Thanks for the update. It was quite timely because things were going totally out of hand with the sort of comments on FCC/CE and the reasons for the shipping delays. It is always better to comply with whatever the federal regulations call for. We will be doing business both in Europe and America in the future like having our own offices there, so we may as well take the difficult initial step now so that things are bit easier in the future.

    Enjoy your well earned rest. You deserve a break. Nothing like taking a break in the back waters of Kerala with a guitar in one hand and an adam in other.

  363. Question to lucky ppl who received their adam already – Did you people get any tracking information from DHL before?
    It would be beneficial to know for some of us, if they do send tracking info or the status updated to shipped? I have my residence address at which it should be delivered and my workplace is in a different city. So I need to be at home to receive it.

  364. Guys india has changed a lot and will continue to change until it become a great nation.
    Only problem some one might face with the climate condition and and dust. We have different culture and tradition and it will be remarkable exprience for you guys. You guys gona love the urban part of india as you will find it almost similer but the rural area will be a different avenue to explore.
    India is a great country and I welcome you all. A place where you can learn wisdom and spirituality to improve your lifestyle.

  365. Hello Rohan,

    I would very much like to know the timeframe for the next order/pre-order run.

    I would also like to add that the feedback you got at CES was great, and it is nice, and must be very nice for you to know that the product/your baby is THAT good, and raises that many eyebrows 🙂

    Thank you very much for your hard work, now get some sleep and start another order window 😉

  366. @Vyjesh

    Guitar on adam will be nothing like a real guitar 🙂 Rohan being a keen guitarist himself would agree with me I suppose. I have a sneaky feeling that the background score on the Promo video was composed by Rohan as the guitar component of the music is unmissable. I could be wrong. Any diehard music fans with an ear for music, what do you think???

  367. Move to Bangalore… You can get a house near to Notion Ink itself. (Bit expensive real estate though in Bannerghatta Road… but when you go from a better currency rate, it should be ok) That way we all can easily ping you about our questions on Adam. 🙂

  369. Oh but will it support 640gb? I donno. I have a feeling (from earlier mails and posts) that there is a cap on 128gb.

    It should, (unless that restriction is bcoz of android) as long as external power is supplied, I suppose.

  371. Yes indeed. For promotions Guitar application would be good.
    Applications like Continuum Fingerboard or Harpejji musical instruments
    would be wonderful.

    Some one could develop as soon as the SDK is released.

  372. I guess it should support 640GB to be mounted as storage device. It depends on file system of the storage itself. Android does support ext4 and hence I feel 640GB of storage should be no problem at all.
    It’s a different question if you want to install and run apps from the disk. But I guess that’s something you are not trying to achieve here.

  373. Hi all,

    For anyone still interested … I did get to CES, for about two hours on the final day, due to travel delays. Walked, no … RAN, the entire city block from registration to opposite end to the Pixel Q private booth, on the slim hope of seeing an Adam. They were closing down for the day, and initially not very welcoming, but after a bit of conversation, took an extensive amount of time to chat with me about the Pixel Q screens, even going so far as to take their sample (not an Adam; just a small generic “no name” tablet of a very different design) outside to display in full sunlight in both reading mode and full color video. Given that even Pixel Q admits to some small color trade-offs for full sun readability, the video had very good color. I would have NO fears about ordering the Pixel Q screen Adam, had I the opportunity. Hope that info is of some help to those of you who had questions about screens and color.

    They also confirmed talking with NI, and press meetings, but of course, there was no sign of NI, Adam or the team anywhere I was 😦 Didn’t really expect to get that lucky but … Glad to hear they’re back home safe and sound and going back to work to resolve remaining issues and improvements. I’m stuck in Las Vegas for another week; hope to read more Adam good news soon.

    Hi to all old family pals.

  374. Also, the cap on the size with 128GB was with microSDXC I assume and not with external hard disks.

  375. Awesome Idea….

    Imagine something like a gorillapod [“http://joby.com/gorillapod”], the possibilities are endless…

  376. you mean honeycomb?
    but from rohan’s been saying it looks like their SDK’s abstracted away from the android SDK to be able to have quick turn around cycles for new SDK releases. Or maybe I’m just reading too much into the whole Eden’s a dream & they’ve got a long term plan bit!

  377. @raja52

    The main reason why tech commentators criticized Genesis because they were under the impression that Adam would have no access to the Market. As Adam will have access to the Market when Honeycomb arrives, Genesis will only add to the Android standard apps.

    With access to the Market, Genesis offers an attractive layer of icing on the cake and we all know that decorated cakes sell better then standard ones 🙂

  378. with all the funfare in the la la land….we are still waiting for notion ink to open its doors for us to order it in the dark land..

  379. a photograph of this link
    “http://www.rags-int-inc.com/PhotoTechStuff/AcrCalibration/D1X_2248_defalult.jpg”
    will be good to judge the color and contrast reproduction of the camera!

  380. @AlbertWertz

    Indian dishes are delicious, I can strongly recommend you to visit an Indian restaurant in your neighborhood. When I am traveling and want to treat myself, then I search for an Indian restaurant and it is always a success with people that I invite.

  382. Alternative is to partition the external hard disk (portable kind) say 320 gb with ext4 and 320 gb with FAT32. That way you can store things like documents/spreadsheets from Quickoffice onto the FAT32 partition to be read by any PC/Mac. You can store your downloaded apps and videos taken by adam in the Ext4 partition. The Ext4 partition can be read by Android and a Linux OS, like say Ubuntu. You will need to do the partitioning and formatting bit on a PC. I am unsure whether adam will let you do that.

    Also be mindful of the hard disk RPM. The higher RPM kind may require more power from the USB port to spin them. Use power on adam judiciously.

  383. could some of you perhaps do the following:

    click on the second image and resize it to its original size. Then, take a look at the bush on the lower left side of the image (left of the black GMC car) and at the adjacent tree (above the white GMC). Then, take a look at the gray vertical line that separates the sky from the left wall of the building and also at the adjacent windows. And then please tell me what you think.

  384. @ govind
    what is the problem with engadget? its a good site and their review for adam was quite good and they did say that they were very impressed with adam. and yesterday also they let every 1 know what was the real fcc issue and they dint say anything wrong atall.
    its a open blog so there are going to be many people who will like adam and some who wont and its natural . like for example the world is going gaga gaga over the xoom and i personally dint like oit atall i liked the asus range , and acer iconia and playbook more then xoom . so some guys who visit engadget may like adam and may not its ok .
    and anyway most imp is people who have ordered adam like it and enjoy it let the world say what they want to it hardly matters.

    and by the way rohan went tp slashgear and engadget because in his view they are one of the most honest tech sites .

  386. Personally I’ve decided to go with a 16gb class 10 for now -more interested in speed over capacity. I’ve already ordered the WinTec that Greg tested:
    “http://www.notioninkfan.com/2010/12/wintec-filemate-16-gb-class-10.html”

  387. Good question. -Not receiving shipment notice + tracking number would be an annoyance for me for similar reasons you have stated: it would further delay my actually receiving the shipment by a few days…

    According to the order confirmation mail:

    “You will receive your device shipping details as soon as we make the shipment.”

  388. @ wtff

    The image is 2048 x 1536 = 3.145 Megapixel

    You can see a light grid in the sky if you resize it to 1024 x 600 pixel or what do you exactly mean ?

  390. The latest response I received from Preorder support:

    “Greetings from the Notion Ink Support Team!

    We are sorry to inform you that there has been slight delayed in the shipping of the Adams dated 9th January. The team is currently working on this and once we have the information, we should be able to provide you with the tracking number and concerned carrier.

    Thank you for your continued support to Notion Ink!”

    I guess we will receive tracking numbers. It’s still surprising that no one has posted any picture of Adam.

  391. …similar to what I get with PS or Gimp when applying one of the “Artistic” filters at very subtle settings…

  392. @cathy
    That’s so nice of u to share. Thanks for info on pixel Qi screen, i can order one with it.
    hard luck that u couldn’t get to meet NI. It’s ok..u may be lucky next time, with better plans..

    Mohan.

  394. I said almost twelve hours ago that I don’t think people from this blog got their adam. The only way someone got a shipment day of the ninth is if they got a preorder email. Which means they know all about this blog. Maybe some real friends and family got one? I just don’t think all this time would have gone by without a single post. Just my opinion.

  395. Woww ! Great effort 🙂 ! Thanks for sharing your experience ! though I stay right near NI’s office. I thought of not bothering them, in the anticipation that it will not be a welcoming visit !!!

  397. Hi Rohan,
    Its been a blasting week for NI & us, you did a great job to silence the critics. You seems to have different vision and done a great job at CES. We are happy to see the whole world recognise ADAM and your work. We all are proud of you and NI.
    “I hope those with photography experience will comment on this and we can learn more on this new topic”.
    Being an amature photographer still i will say ADAM will do a great job in our day to day photography need. Due to the size factor of tablet it will have pros and cons in terms of photography. I fell Adam will be a great device for photography in certain areas.

    1) Despite being 3.2 mega pixel the optical quality of the lens and image capture chip, compression algorithms seems to blend perfectly, resulting a very good image quality. (I wish Adam has carl zeiss optic).

    2) Due to swivel nature it is more easier than point to shoot digital camera or mobile phone camera. As with Adam we can just swivel the camera and take great shoot even listening a song. Eden does multitasking guys so we enjoy a little more. (I hope we can do that Rohan?)

    3) I was little shocked when rohan said about Macro mode in Adam? I truly love macro shoot and enabling Adam with macro mode with auto focus seems to be a great feature & photography tool.

    4) We will prefer to take more photos by Adam than mobile phone cos it will save the hassle to transfer it to PC/ Adam again. Just click and see it in a bigger screen.

    5) Enabling Macro mode with Auto focus will take care of close object photography. watch the video for details. “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EUQWdeu-5Y”

    6) Great companion for Outdoor bright sunlight shoot with Pixel Qi.

    7) It will be the best device to scan / taking image of any document. Auto focus will take care of that.

    8) Taking public / office picture with no embarrassment as no body can see what the swivel camera is doing. Its a fun tool too.

    For life like imaging and night shoot lets leave it to Nikon. I love Nikon and its the best Digital camera.

    We would love to see the video capture of Adam and i hope Rohan is listening.

    Regards.

  404. Oops !!! “concerned carrier” ??? Bad English

    Notion Ink , if the above mail is true please correct it.

  406. @Cathy, I was wondering if you could make it the CES. I misspelled your name. My bad.
    Had a good trip?

    Daryl.

  407. Well, we could soon see a long queue outside a major store in Bangalore to buy Adam.

  408. Hello, cathy!
    It is incredibly nice of u to share this information, and even nicer for you to go look for them @CES. CES is a very tempting place for gadget lovers- All sorts of gadgets in all shapes and sizes are up for display @CES, and anyone who’s just visiting has a lot to see.

    Glad that you spent a good amt of time at the PixelQi booth. I guess Greg and others who were worried about their PixelQi order will be a little happier by your reassurance. 🙂

    I wish you could get to see ADAM and meet Rohan, of course. But there’s always a next year, I suppose 🙂

  411. I thought so too. But you never know!!! I guess we will know when we get it or at least someone who has already got posts about it.

    For now, it feels like it has been delivered to only those who do not follow this blog. 😉

  415. That was an extremely helpful and candid post, Rohan, thank you. Hard to picture Steve Jobs chatting so openly about the limitations of the current ipad os. In fact, I think you just sold me after several weeks of uncertainty; the information vacuum has been well and truly filled with terrific pics, videos, and blog posts characterized by simplicity and candor.

    I had to buy an Archos 101 because I needed a tablet right away, and its not bad, but my wife will be inheriting it the moment Adam is available once more.

    Slainte

  416. Actually yes. I think we should take that as a compliment. There is no shame in loving and praising a device that we helped build (In some ways). If that constitutes as fanboy-ism, then yes, even Rohan is a fanboy. So is everybody else who stood by NI in disturbing times (a month ago) and in happy times (now). Actually, it is most satisfying to have toed this journey and there is no shame in pronouncing that.

    NotionAddict or not, I am a notioninkfan and these are my fundaazoflife 😉

  419. Yes, and the most expensive!

    I bought a 32GB Kingston micro SDHC Class 4 (50€) and hope it works with Adam…

  420. for now you can have a look at
    “http://www.flickr.com/photos/siddharthkrish/sets/72157612842627483/” these are some pictures taken using either a N80 or a HTC Hero! just show’s that most of these devices take good pictures when the light’s good….

  421. good post indeed

    >> Taking public / office picture with no embarrassment as no body can see what the swivel camera is doing. Its a fun tool too.

    haha, I wonder how many people besides you had that exact same thought already. Myself not being one of them of course 😀

    Another use case ADAM’s configuration could be perfect for is similar to the spycam thing you mentioned and it is one of my main motivation points to buy an ADAM:

    whenever I spent time with my girlfriend’s five year old son, it often so happens that he does or says something that is natural conduct/thinking of a five year old but is just hilarious to a grownup’s mind. It ails me a bit, not to be able to capture these highlights of his. I could chuck out my phone and take a video clip but there are two problems with this:
    For one thing, it takes a really long time to unlock the screen, start up the camera app, switch to video mode and start recording. By the time the video would start, the moment I intended to capture would already have passed. The other problem is that he of course notices me recording him and then stops being natural.

    But equipped with an ADAM I imagine to casually put it down besides me, adjust the swivel cam appropriately, start recording and switch off the screen back-light or swype the camera leaf away from the screen, thus recording inconspicuously.

    Given a perfect video app, I could configure the all-purpose button on ADAM’s right loin to either start/stop the video recording or to insert a timestamp/bookmark into the video stream whenever my girlfriend’s son does something memorable and later preserve only the video regions around the timestamps/bookmarks I inserted.

    I can imagine no other gadget that could do that and is handy enough to be always with me.

  422. anyone who wants to release the unboxing images/vids. I can have you on the front page of “mynotionink.com”… a little advertising never hurt 😉

  423. @Rohan, Just a thought. Like the lucky ones who got their adams because they didn’t need CE or FCC, Is it possible for people in Europe to get it as soon as CE is available. FCC is something that EU really won’t care about. (Assuming you are using two different test firms for them or may be it does not even matter)

  424. I am going to ask my patent lawyer (yes, I have one) to see if this is already patented. If not, I just might let Notion Ink use this idea for Adam II. I am feeling generous.

  426. I am reposting what Greg G said on NotioninkHacks website.

    Greg G
    Post subject: Met Rohan at CESPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:34 am

    I had the good luck to run into Rohan on the floor at CES. He was gracious and seemed to genuinely apprecite my babbling about how excited I was about the Adam (actually ordered 8 for the execs in my company). Seeing the Adam in person was very cool as well! It looks so sleek and well built. All the other tablets at CES looked the same but the Adam really stands out! I also got to go into the Pixel Qi room. They we’re kind enough to show us their screens even though they had a private room and we did not have an appointment. I have to say the screen looks awsome! I know NI is going to make me look good for choosing the Adam for everyone and can’t wait to get my hands on mine!

    (posted on blog too but awaiting moderaion)

    -Greg

  428. @Sid

    Made a copy from your link. In PhotoShop CS4 went to levels and colors now look very good. I’m happy with the adjustment of colors.

    LeoP

  429. Thanks Red and Greg G, I am afraid that all those who have not seen and touched an Adam yet, will be so jealous of those who start posting their first hand-on experiences.

    The different form factor of Adam will indeed be of great appeal when people walk into a store to buy a tablet. That the hand-grip (rubber) feels so good, combined with aggressive pricing and several pre-installed useful apps, will most likely make it an easy sale, not only here with the family, but in every store that has it.

    Gartner predicted over 35 million tablets to be sold in 2011. I wonder how many Adams Notion Ink can produce, but I think that all their batches will be sold out this year 🙂

  432. But when do we get it? It’s looking amazing and I am really getting tired of listening to all the Apple fans at uni flashing their iPad’s all the time…

    I need an Adam with Pixel Qi yesterday!

  433. Hi Stefan,

    I think we have to do it the hard way: It has been said many times that NI – at least at the moment – is just shipping “our” adam from Taiwan or China where it is produced. Therefore shipping fee $50. And add 19 % import sales tax on [price for your adam + $50].

    No chance to pick it up at Media-Markt, Saturn or anywhere else. But Rohan told us that his sales team was busy in Europe so eventually one day .. Perhaps with Eve.

    Best regards, Thomas

  434. Rohan,

    Since Adams are already shipped to Non-EU/USA customers, why don’t you upload manual on NotionInk website? Please take a favourable decision.

    Warm Regards

  435. Wow! I was gone for a while and just got back to see this. I am appreciative of everyone’s support and enthusiasm. It really means a lot to me!!! 😀

    Though I think Rohan’s hands are tied and he will not be able to send my Adam any sooner than the FCC will allow. But if I am wrong and find a nice surprise at my door some time soon, I will be sure to post video and comments for everyone as quickly as possible.

    Based on my pre-order and estimated shipping date I really did think I would be one of the first to receive my Adam, and I had several ideas for videos and reviews that would address specific questions most people have. But now I will wait and see what others post online before I get mine, and then address any remaining questions, etc. I will probably repeat coverage of some topics to give my personal view point, but hope to provide as much new and original information as possible. I mean, how many unboxing videos do we need, right?

    Thanks again everyone. Your comments like this make all the time I spend online chasing Notion Ink news and writing on blogs, etc really worth it! 😉

    @Everyone +1000

  438. Yep, I use the crappy camera on my phone all the time “because I have it with me”. So I’m sure I’ll get even more use from Adam’s camera.

    One unique use is for those of us who have a hard time reading really small print like on circuit boards, etc. I generally don’t have a magnifying glass with me so I take a quick snapshot and then view it on the display and zoom in on it to read the small print. It works well on my small phone so it will be even better on the Adam.

  439. Biswajit saha,

    Good! You can host the first ever adam users conference in the summer of 2012…or maybe the adams birthdate!!!

  440. A couple points:

    It surprises me that Notion Ink doesn’t work more closely with Google.

    I personally have done a good bit of photography. And a flash, despite its shortcomings, would have been a nice addition.

    The post hints that FCC certification may be going slower than anticipated. Why?

  441. I have to admit that I did not know much about India before I found the Notion Ink Adam. I have learned so much over the past year through my friends here on this blog. It has been a wonderful experience and I hope to visit India some day. If most people in India are like the thoseon this blog, then India is got to be a wonderful place to live.

    And I look forward to Indian food too. I still have not tried it yet, but I will soon. Remember the whole “spicy tongue” thing? 😉

    Anyway, it is amazing to see how much Notion Ink and the Adm have already helped us to cross borders and build good relations. It is inspiring to think how all of us can make the world a better place by simply opening our minds, getting rid of prejudice and simply being more accepting of everyone and their different ways of life.

    And it’s good to know I will have friends to visit in India if I do make it there!

  442. @NI familiy, Everyone

    What a difference a single post can do. The mood was sombre for the past few days and now it is upbeat all around. There are times when Rohan becomes silent for days and it resembles a radio blackout that happens whenever the space shuttle orbiter comes back to earth and you are not sure whether they have made it or not. There is this one way transmission from Houston, which frantically tries to get in touch with the orbiter and then finally they come back on the radio saying they made it. You can imagine the sigh of relief that goes all around. I can only think of that analogy right now.

  443. Sorry for the double post. It was not a reply to someone else’s comment.

    @NI family, Everyone

    What a difference a single post can do. The mood was sombre for the past few days and now it is upbeat all around. There are times when Rohan becomes silent for days and it resembles a radio blackout that happens whenever the space shuttle orbiter comes back to earth and you are not sure whether they have made it or not. There is this one way transmission from Houston, which frantically tries to get in touch with the orbiter and then finally they come back on the radio saying they made it. You can imagine the sigh of relief that goes all around. I can only think of that analogy right now.

  444. I promise! As soon as I get mine. But I live in the US and are subject to the delay due to FCC formalities.

  445. I’m surprised to find out that nobody is keen on speculating about Rohan’s second to last sentence:

    “And if Google is doing innovation on Software front, what would Notion Ink be doing on other fronts??”

    Usually this is a real gift for tech bloggers. What do you think will adam 2 be equipped with:

    USB 3.0
    Pixel Qi latest screen
    Flash 16 gb/32 gb
    ? instead of Micro SD
    LTE / 4G

    Or completely different with technical equipment that I have not yet heard about?!?

    Best regards, Thomas

  446. Just keep in mind that I have not tested those cards with the Adam yet. But I expect they will work well.

    I will be updating that post once I have the Adam and get the opportunity to try them (use them to record/play HD video).

  448. @Cathy,

    It is very good to hear from you. I’m jealous of your 2 hours at CES. That is 2 more than most of us got to experience. And thank you so much for using those 2 hours to find out about the Pixel Qi display and especially for sharing your thoughts with us. I feel even more reassured after reading your comments that I made the right decision going with Pixel Qi over LCD. Now I can’t wait to get mine and have a chance to see it myself.

  449. Rohan, Good Morning, I hope that your trip went well and you enjoyed your CES 2011 experience. At your earliest opportunity can you please answer the following questions:

    ***When will the next pre-order or full availability of orders be released?

    ***What’s included in the ADAM box (in terms of accessories?

    Thanks

  450. Currently, that is the only way you can use non-Eden optimized apps, in full screen. So, that functionality will exist right out of the box.

  454. I think it was more of a forward looking statement. I think we have done enough speculation and gotten in different directions. Since the first set of customers have already received their Adams, it might be more prudent to wait to hear from the recipients.

  456. This thread starts with a good question. Is there a possibility of experiencing vanilla Android OS on this tablet? Having an open source OS will give consumers who want to innovate an ability to create customizations. Think about cars and innovative customizations where OEMs realized very late that it is a big market in itself. I am curious to know more on this from Rohan and I support the idea of an option to turn off Eden.

  458. Cradles, card mounts, and other accessories would be nice. I’d like to know what NI has done to reach out to accessories manufacturers?

    NI needs to focus on their current product and accessories. NI needs to stop hinting about Adam 2. The hints and rumors of Adam 2 are aggravating when you pre-ordered a product and don’t even have it yet.

  459. I think he means more how HTC sense works where you can toggle that on and off, which is not “as good as root”

  464. Good Morning Every one,

    @ Rajeev : let people from Preorder1 receive their Adams first and then start thinking about round2 😉

  465. I have a proposal; it would be great to have a kind of Notion Ink certificate of Adam ownership by city, example: You are the number “x” to have and Adam in your city. I’ll carry Adam “floating with proud” and showing my tablet to all my friends!!!

  466. A blogger’s attempt to learn more about Honeycomb at CES “http://armdevices.net/2011/01/06/honeycomb-user-interface-demo/” The guy reaches over and starts trying to launch apps as a Google or Motorola rep is talking about Honeycomb and/or the Xoom. The Adam is still the tablet that I covet the most, but competition is coming. On the low-end you have the recently announced Archos 101 home tablet with a Rockchip dual core processor that has a higher Quadrant score than the Adam and is expected to cost $200. Not as many features as Adam, but a decent tablet for $200 (current Archos 101 internet tablet has received pretty good reviews). On the high-end is the RIM playbook, which simultaneously played 1080p video, 3D ray tracing app, and Quake. The slashgear video showed them jumping between programs/apps with no lag whatsoever. Potential drawbacks are lack of apps and battery life. Right now, one could argue that Adam has no real competition. In 2-3 months, there could be a lot of viable alternatives.

  467. Maybe just paranoid but I find it to be an uncany turn of events not having fcc and ce numbers yet. Its like some other big company/ companies are about to be beat to the table by notion ink with a better product. And now there throughing a there weight around and tying those numbers up with red tape.

    Id bet the stupid xoom tablet already has its numbers.

  468. I heard that concern too somewhere. I plan to test as soon as I have my Adam. I have several USB thumb drives and external hard drives with and without their own power supplies, and ranging between 32 MB all the way up to 2 TB. I will test them all and report my findings… 😉

  469. this wasn’t taken from the adam, i was saying this image should be taken with the adam so we can tell how good the adam’s camera is. unless you’re saying you’ve got the adam 😉

  470. Hi Rohan, hope you get a good rest. When you awake, I have two questions:

    – Will those with the 15th-22nd shipment date also be delayed by the FCC labeling thing, assuming this is finalized prior to the 15th?

    – Have you given any thought to making the leaf interface approach and open source project? I ask this because if you can get the other tablet makers to adop this, most of the apps coming out will also come with a leaf interface. This might also leave NI in the potential position of controlling part of the Android interface approach going forward.

  472. The Archos 101s are around $370 (8GB) and $450 (16GB) on Amazon; at $200 I’d buy them to resell them!!

    The Quadrant scores aren’t necessarily relative, as adam (Eden) has the ability to run on only one core until the app demand is sufficient to utilize the second core. I believe that this was pointed out and discussed before.

    I do agree that there is a lot of competition coming, but I believe the adam stacks up very well. I can’t wait to show mine off!!

    Bob

  473. Thank you for nice updates Rohan:) I can’t wait my Adam anyymore:)
    By the way, I have some updates for you too guys:) Yesterday, I send an email to Notion Ink about tech. specs. and today they replied me (very fast reply, I love their support:)
    Anyways, here is the email:

    Greetings from the Notion Ink Support Team!

    1. Can we plug in headset to Notion Ink Adam? Yes

    2. What is the resolution and fps of video recording of Adam? resolution 640 x 480 and fps of 15 fps.

    3. Can we plug 1TB hard drive to it? We are not too sure if a HD of that size would show up.

    4. Can we disable the ambient light sensor if we want? Yes.

    5. Sniffer shows 1 USB drive even a USB drive doesn’t plugged. However, we have 2 USB port. What if we plug 2 USB flash drive at a time, will it work? Will Sniffer shows both of them? No, it would only work and show 1 device.

    6. Can leaves work in the portrait mode? No

    7. Will Notion Ink come with screen protector or not? Yes, the Adam will come with a screen protector.

    Thank you for your continued support to Notion Ink!

    Warm Regards
    Jon
    Notion Ink Support Team

  475. Hi Rohan,
    thank you for keeping us updated, when will you be able to advise when people like myself unable to join the free order Queue, you will be able to make a firm order. Some update on this would help all of us who are waiting in hope.

  476. it wont be DHL in the USA, im not sure rest of the world. They told me in email that they were unsure who carrier was gonna be in USA

  477. The video resolution and fps is a little low but this is not a video camera right?:) I do care about the other specs. of Notion Ink, and especially its software. So for me, video recording is nothing.
    To be sure about the screen protector made me very happy:)

    Also I asked the headset because I bought Adam with Pixel Qi and Wifi, and now I know that if I plug-in Huawei E1750 to Adam and with an headset, I can use Adam as a phone also:)

  478. that is true and not true at the same time. I have a tablet (pandigital Novel Hacked with market) and many of the apps that I have downloaded run in phone size waisting much of the screen also some try to do both at the same time and just mess up and can’t be used on a tablet at all. I’m sure notioninkhacks will soon have a long list of APK’s that run great on the adem in full screen.

  479. @Sid
    “will be good to judge the color and contrast reproduction of the camera!”

    Sorry

    Read your comment wrong. Thought it said from the camera and not of the camera.

  480. or you can go to the forum at “www.tegra2tablets.com”

    or I can just answer the question for you… you need to go with a higher “class” like a class 10. Most cards you get are class 2 (if the card doesnt say assume class 2). The class is really just the data transfer rate, the higher the class the faster the card can transfer data.

    the real trick is the size/price. You need to decide how much space you need and how much you are willing to spend. Class 10 microSD cards are still expensive so you may settle with a 16gb class 6 or 8.

    IMO, its worth getting a higher class on a smaller card. Def improves performance on my droid…

    more notion ink news at “www.notioninknews.com”

  482. @Veera, The Camera in Adam seems quite impressive with Auto focus & macro shoot capability. It will be a great companion to us.

  483. I’d get the 3.0 interface so that you don’t have to get a new hard drive if you ever get an updated Adam or, for that matter, want to attach the drive to a machine with a 3.0 interface. This is known as “forward thinking” and is a reptile specialty.

  484. I wonder if we use some other file managers like ASTRO or something like that and mount the two devices, then we should be able to access it.
    But I guess for that you need root access and we won’t have root access without making the warranty void. 🙂
    I guess more work for friends at XDA. I already saw they have a forum open for ADAM. I think questions like these can be posted and discussed there.
    “http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=891”

  486. Video capture in one leaves and in other two music player and web browser for demo video will be great.

  488. :). And the difference only 12$ so i will better go with USB 3.0. The only point was that my next purchase will be adam. And not sure of any other gadget until adam 2 :). So USB 3.0 will be useless till then. But I like the forward thinking of Mr. repltile 🙂 .

  489. Good or bad, Quadrant is what everyone uses and refers to. I doubt Adam power management is causing score in the 1800’s, since that is what the Viewsonic G Tablet (also tegra II) gets with stock rom. The latter scores 2400 with mod rom, but could be overclocking. FYI, the Archos 101 are $294 and $348 at B&H Photo Video, but pre-order.

  490. I can’t tell you how excited I am this morning… I received an email from Rohan and in the email message he said:

    ” And there is a special gift in the package which you will receive 🙂 I am personally shipping one to you! 🙂 ”

    Thank you Rohan!!!

    I don’t know anymore than that at this point. But it sure feels like Christmas all over again!

    I’ll keep you posted as I find out more. Also, I want to thank all those that were suggesting to Rohan that he should send me my Adam. It might have been in fun but Rohan may have taken you seriously. I will be sure to try and repay the favor by posting videos and reviews as soon as I get it.

    PS: If you are wondering who I am… I’m the guy walking around with the ridiculously huge grin on my face!

  491. @Rama @FundaazofLife @ Ganesh @Payce @Greg Thanks for your replies .Seems it will be be better to wait for some more clarity. As some fellow mate got a reply from support team that 1TB HDD will not be supported on adam. So there is no clarity on maximum size supported by adam(or may be is it 128Gb). So in case if HDD attached is >128GB will it be detected by adam (only 128 gb part of it) or will not be detected at all?
    Moreover are there devices right now which can work as a bridge between a USB 2.0 port and USB3.0 compatible device so that we can use the fast speed of USB 3.0(though i dont think it will be possible).

  492. So if I want mine shipped to Afghanistan, and use DHL (assuming DHL is the shipping company–hint-hint–)…it could be here in a few days? Im guessing they dont have FCC or CE restrictions…

  493. as far as i can tell from all the video is just press the second button from the top on the left side of the tablet and it should revert to normal android screen

  494. Great Congrats Greg :). Now it will be even more fun to watch your hands on Video .Greg wiith a huge Grin :).

  495. Good For You Greg!!
    I am Happy For You!! Rohan seems to have a Liking For You :-).
    I am thinking he doubled your order!!
    Hey What’s the harm in thinking, and hoping right? 😉
    What have you ordered LCD or Pixel Qi?

  496. @Greg

    That is great news. I understand how you must feeling right now. You are surely over the moon. Looking forward to your unboxing and videos…

  498. One more reply. 🙂 I guess the 128gb part is the limitation on the micro SD front. Because till date thats the maximum commercially available card.
    With respect to 1TB HDD I guess there should not be a problem. The file system does support it. My guess is if there is a limitation that would be a software one by Sniffer. I also saw the comment about 1TB HDD reply from NI support. I guess what they mean is that they have not tested with it. But they don’t deny completely about it.

    In any case it would be best to wait.

  501. but waiting is so hard!
    when do the preorder 1 people receive their stuff? Next week?

  502. Nice idea!!
    But for that, Google would need to work with Ni very closely and somewhere along the line declare Eden as an official Alternative Android UI/Skin. I doubt Google would want to do anything where they need to follow instructions from an external Co. and even perhaps invite NI to join the android platform development.

  504. You may get an extra LCD version along with you Pixel Qi Adam, so that you are also happy and we get to see side by side comparisons and other videos.

    Cant wait for the videos 😀

  506. Congrats Greg. 🙂 May be test device of ADAM 2??? How does that sound?

    Waiting for the videos…

  507. good for you greg. I bet you get the case with a little red ribbon. did he happen to say when it would be shipped, today, tomorrow, next week , next month or just that he was just personally ?

  508. Now, this is some gesture!

    As personal as this blog gets and how NI treats their customers, this could jolly well be a great foundation to build a dedicated and tight community.

    Will be checking notioninkfan.com for unboxing, I really share your excitement!

  510. Congrats Greg! Please let us know what is the special gift in your package if you don’t mind!

    Now from Rohan’s email ” I am personally shipping one to you!” I wonder what that means, shipping starting today?

  511. @wtff, You see every body is going to use the swivel camera for fun stuff, just think how easy to capture your manager taking a nap in office? any more idea guys?

  512. Ccongratulation Greg. Hope to see your adam and your gift very soon in a nice video 😉

  513. “http://tech2.in.com/india/topstuff/tablets-laptops/could-the-adam-wipe-the-floor-with-the-ipad-2/185912/0”

  514. Congratulations Greg ! Probably you get your Adam signed on the backside by Master Rohan himself 😉

  518. @Greg,
    you deserve it! You have been supporting NI for so long, and with so much passion, that it was expected.
    @Rohan
    More than ever we should praise you for your commitment, and faithfulness to the fans on this blog. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  522. Himanshu my friend, even if they have limitations, it is actually very easy to make hard disk of any size work. The only problem I foresee is Sniffer taking a long time indexing the drive. I personally advice you to go for the bigger drives – like the USB 1TB from Seagate with 5 yr warrranty.

    Now, even if they have the Sniffer indexing limit of 128 GB, you can always have multiple 100 GB Extended FAT32 partitions.

    And once they have NTFS support, you can repartition based on the new NTFS support limitation issued @ that time by NI. If I am not wrong, you have started getting USB 3.0 1TB pocket size drives from Seagate and WD, check them out!

    And lastly, though you might not have USB 3.0 support in Adam, and will have the drive working @ USB 2.0 speed with it, you will very well be connecting to other devices in future – which might have USB 3.0 as standard – so no issues, just go ahead if you get a good deal!

  524. Awesome!! You deserve it man!! Im truly happy for you! You have been putting in alot of work for us NI fans as well. Congrats my friend!

  526. @James

    Yes. My desire is infinity , to have wonderful general release if our Adam to the masses . Like a rocking star. 🙂

  527. Would you like to use some different smileys in your wordpress comments? If so, try these… (Be sure to remove the quotes to get them to work)

    🙂 = “:-)”

    😀 = “:-D”

    😦 = “:-(”

    😮 = “:-o”

    😯 = “8-O”

    😕 = “:-?”

    😎 = “8-)”

    😡 = “:-x”

    😛 = “:-P”

    😐 = “:-|”

    😉 = “;-)”

    😆 = “:lol:”

    😳 = “:oops:”

    😥 = “:cry:”

    👿 = “:evil:”

    😈 = “:twisted:”

    🙄 = “:roll:”

    ❗ = “:!:”

    ❓ = “:?:”

    💡 = “:idea:”

    ➡ = “:arrow:”

    :mrgreen: = “:mrgreen:”

  528. Hi greg, great work done for CES, your shortcut link helped tons of people to connect with Adam at CES.

  529. @greg congrats!; and you deserve it.

    thanks rohan for taking care of your fans.

    and here’s article by robert evans on why moto xoom should not be crowned “best in ces” in retrospect to notion ink adam ” hxxp://www.i4u.com/44543/motorolas-xoom-was-not-best-show-ces-2011 ” (replace xx with tt in given link)

  530. If I were to hazard a guess, it could be the red unveiling cloth used at the time of pre-orders. You will get the previlege to officially unveil the product.

  531. Hi gecko, as we all know Adam will upgrade its storage capacity, now i think it might get upgraded to LTE & USB 3.0 too. what do you think?

  532. I always thought there were a few people here who should receive Adam first. I always put Greg on top of that list. Then those who have worked so hard designing web pages for the good of Adam, and then a couple of more who, like Greg, have always been here for Rohan and his dream.
    Right now I’m having a cup of wine this very moment. So, cheers Greg!

  534. OK I just want to know who has their hands on their new adam and where are the unboxing videos!! 8-0

  535. @Biswa,
    yup man, it is gonna be a lot of use to us. I have a 3.2 MP camera in my HTC TYTN II, which I almost never use. But, my only concern is the software part – I hope it is optimized like everything else in Adam for taking a quick picture. I would also like to see a swivel gesture recognition built into the software, like when its on standby and you see something that you need to take a snap of – you should be able to activate the camera application by say swiveling from onse side to another – or just one swivel – so that you can straight go to camera or video modes.

  536. Again, I think this was all discussed before. Adam’s / Eden’s power management is exactly what causes the lower scores, as the other tablets are unable to run on a single core; both cores are always running and provide higher scores during the tests.

    Quadrant, while the current standard, does not take this into consideration. It was mentioned that a newer benchmarking software will hopefully be developed that will be able to take this into account.

    Also discussed was whether there iis the ability to configure the adam to run both cores all the time, or whether that was coded into Eden. I don’t recall any answers to that question / concern. I had a Dell Axim that allowed for this in the power settigs; maybe it will be an option on adam, too.

    Bob

  538. @Zach I still hope that we get an option to run standard Android apps either full screen or in a leaf.

    Telephone apps will not look good if they are stretched out so much while I have several telephone apps (such as translations next to documents) for which it would be really great if i can run them side by side.

  540. Thanks buddy :). The reason to go for 640 gb was (1) It was portable 2.5 inches (2) USB 3.0 compatible. The Transcend Indian Online Store does not have 1 TB USB 3.0 Compatible HDD right now. 1 TB HDD’s rpm is fast but it’s heavier too.
    Posting links for both of them
    “http://www.supertrontranscend.com/product/ItemDetail.asp?ItemID=TS640GSJ25M3”

    And “http://www.supertrontranscend.com/product/ItemDetail.asp?ItemID=TS1TSJ35T”

  544. Thanks for sharing, Cathy.
    My doubt were gone out of the window already, and now you confirmed my decision to order PQ as soon as the possibility occurs.
    And great for you you made it after all, if it was only for two ours, that were two hours well spent!

  545. So. Unless he is flying to China to “personally ship” your adam, it will come straight from India. I highly doubt you will get one off the current production line, but no doubt a final version. If you do get one with the stamp, it will have to ship to India first so he can personally ship it. That would delay things for you and us (videos).

    I think you will be getting one of the ones he already received (probably without the fcc stamp). He can send that to you after the fact. There are clearly ways to ship these to the US without the stamp…after all they did have to send it to the FCC, investors, and bring it to CES.

    The best part is, he can now send it to you today and the best present of all would be if he sent it overnight to you.

    Just a thought.

  546. Hi Cathy. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience. I was waiting for it. At One point i thought u did not make it but you did indeed 🙂

  550. With respect to Cam ..

    1.Can we use it for video chat (Skype, Google talk or some other?). Or any app in the pipeline to get it working in panels?

    thanks
    kumar

  551. greg,
    i think you should do an unboxing video, then give it to me! (not the box!)

    sounds fair right? 😉

    i’ll just let you think it over and you can get back to me on that.
    i think you’ll make the right choice. 🙂

  552. @Greg btw are you planing to call your friends etc ,once you receive your adam to show off/Flaunt your adam 🙂 as you were suggesting some months earlier?

  553. Congrats! I’m very happy for Rohan & Notionink. You did an outstanding job at CES. I’m hopefull that a new round of ordering will becoming soon.

  554. Awesome Greg ! Congrats !

    I was a bit disappointed that your shipment got delayed as I was looking forward to your unboxing video. I too had ordered one PQ/3G version, but will be getting that only w/ the Jan 15-22 shipping lot.

    Now I hope by the time I get mine, I would have gone through your vids several times 🙂

    Cheers,
    Arun

  556. That is very nice of you to say. Thanks!

    Now I just hope I can create enough good videos fast enough to really show my appreciation to you and everyone else. 😉

  557. @jarrod, I would love to host the 1st adam users conference in the summer of 2012 at Banglore. Lets work on it.

  558. Rohan: i am in love ith Adam. Please do whatever necesary to open the preorder2 and please include us.

  559. @Greg:
    You soooo deserve that pad on your shoulders from Rohan!
    Weren’t you dreaming about having two Adams next to eachother for comparison, one with LCD and one with PQ…?
    That would be soooo awesome.

    @Rohan:
    Thank you for recognising all of Greg’s efforts.
    We all appreciate his contributions very much, and this is a cool way to show him that!

  563. I will likely show it to everyone, everywhere. Even if they don’t care to see it!

    I can hardly contain my excitement.

    In fact, after received the email from Rohan and wrote back and thanked him, I then thought to myself that maybe I should not tell anyone. So I wrote again and asked it he wanted me to keep it between him and I or if it was okay to share the news with everyone. I’m so glad he said I could share the news because I probably would have exploded if I had to keep it to myself…

    Also, I know there are several people from this blog that live near me (West Jordan, UT) that have been wanting to see an Adam in person too. So I plan to arrange a get-together so they can come try it out. They just need to email me (“greg@notioninkfan.com”) and remind me who they are.

  564. So, Greg just called me and said that he wants Rohan to go ahead and ship my Adam too and not wait until the 15th… Just saying… 😉

  565. You are wrong sid, Best photographers carry Nikon camera coz they make the best lens.
    Which camera do you think the best? can you enlighten us?

  566. greg, these things ship from China… how can Rohan put something personal in it if it is from china… this must mean that Rohan sent you one of the one’s they had in India. I bet he signed it personally there and is mailing it to u himself from India.

  567. wow, I should have read the e-mail again… I am so tired… This has been a bad day for me. Car died, Missed lecture and late for everything! lol, congrats!

  568. @Sid, If you know well about camera than you should have noticed those pictures have lot of grains and you should know the reason why.

  570. Greg

    How about Rohan shipping you the specially designed n more advanced ADAM2 🙂

    Anyways, sounds awesome …..Congrats !! ….Have a good time

  571. Benchmarks are usually computationally intensive (e.g., LINPACK). Quadrant is running 3D graphics, which are usually computationally intensive. There could be period of time where CPU/GPU is less than 25% utilization, but doubtful considering the fact that Adam is scoring the same as every other non-mod tegra 2 device I’ve seen. Every tegra 2 device I’ve seen on the web scores 1750-1950 on Quadrant. Adam was in the 1840 range. Devices scoring 2400-2500 were using rom’s from xda community (which voids warranty). I’ve even seen an overclocked HTC hit 3000-3100, which also voids the warranty. Not trying to imply Adam is slow. It is right in line with every other tegra 2 tablet out-of-the-box. Main point was that alternatives are coming. Earlier delays to avoid a Toshiba Folio fiasco were warranted. More delays could hurt Adam’s chances of success.

  572. Don’t worry. We all know you are going to be in LA LA LAND when you first see it. So, whenever you able to show it, we will appreciate it. An Adam in the hands of a REAL FAN is all that matters.

  573. @greg: you might get sooner than most of us think here. Remember Rohan saying in the crunchgear interview that they had 5 adams (4pixel qi +1 lcd) with them which they got for ces.

    I believe Rohan would have shipped one of them to you directly from the US soil before coming back to India.:D

  574. Just read a thoughtfull quote, that meda me think of Rohan’s philosophy:
    “Don’t go into business to get rich. Do it to enrich people. It will come back to you.”
    – Stew Leonard

  575. I agree with you, competition is coming, and it always will! When the next slew of tablets are launching there will be another right behind them with more advanced features. This cycle doesn’t end.

    I also believe adam is the best tablet right now, and until Honeycomb is released nothing will compete. Even when Honeycomb is released, I think that it will take time before anyone else comes close to adam. Heck, the Xoom won’t even be released until Honeycomb. What happens if Honeycomb is delayed?? I haven’t even seen a firm release date for Honeycomb, just Q1.

    I’ve NEVER bought in on pre-orders…I just bought my original Droid last summer, after it had been out for almost a year and proven. The adam potential and Notion Ink’s community / family atmosphere made me pull the trigger on this one, and I can hardly wait.

    What worries me most is my shipping week is next week and I’m out of town until Friday night!! What if it shows up on Tuesday and is just sitting there, mocking me until I can open it on Friday?? ARGH!

    Bob

  577. Just read a thoughtfull quote, that made me think of Rohan’s philosophy:
    “Don’t go into business to get rich. Do it to enrich people. It will come back to you.”
    – Stew Leonard

  579. I hope you guys got your Adam Ringtone. 😀
    “http://www.4shared.com/audio/sBkkPXDt/Adam_Ringtone__Biswajit_saha.html”

  580. Guys! Check this one out about Pixel Qi’s potential customers!

    “http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1/”

  584. @Biswajit saha Greg’s shortcut links were indeed a great tool to keep track of all the great Adam reviews and of all the comments that Notion Ink fans published there 🙄

  585. When having your first Indian meal, don’t forget to order ‘lassi’ or ‘mango lassi’ as your drink. The yoghurt drink tastes good and will help you when you order any spicy food 😳

  590. Sorry to hear about the bad day… But at least you made it to the blog. Hope the rest of the day goes better for you!

    As I think about it, yesterday was like that for me. One issue after another, all day long. It just goes to show you that tomorrow (today for me) can be sooooo much better!

  592. [forgot about the links again… here’s the post until moderation comes through]

    Quick note on the FCC. If you guys want to keep daily check, you can go to
    “https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm”

    In the “Final Action Date” enter today’s date for both fields, keep everything else unchanged. If you prefer, show more than 10 results (I usually look at 100 at a time… personal preference, I guess). Hit the “Start Search” button.

    You should see all the companies whose devices or application changes have been approved/modified etc.

    In the results, if you click on “Details”… you should be able to find a link with “external pictures” or “extpics” or something similar.

  595. This technology has intrigued me as much as Pixel Qi and Mirasol, but they don’t have a product out yet. I always thought it might be good for the next Kindle

    “http://www.liquavista.com/products/liquavistaColor.aspx”

  600. Well Himanshu, I was not right on the warranty part, had to do some additional research to find you a good deal, Seagate’s new pocket models in India are having 3 years warranty – but definitely you have a better option than that 640GB Transcend drive. I am talking about portable 2.5″ drives, dont ever go for 3.5″ desk ones if you want to carry them around. Check the following links out for the Seagate Go Flex ultra portable 1TB with USB 2.0 – which have upgrade cable options to actually upgrade the drive to USB 3.0.
    “http://www.deltapage.com/products.php?product=Seagate-Freeagent-GoFlex-1-TB-%252d-Self-Powered”
    the upgrade cable link:
    “http://www.deltapage.com/products.php?product=Seagate-GoFlex-Upg.-Cable-%3A-USB-3.0”

    And as for this website, I know the owners personally – and they are one of the most trustworthy wholesalers from Chennai who deal with original products – so their price is generally better than most. You can see the same product @ infibeam priced higher than Delta Peripherals.

    “http://www.infibeam.com/Hard_Disk/i-Seagate-1TB-Ultra-Portable-Drive/P-CA-A-Seagate-STAA1000301.html?id=Black”

    Lastly, in USA, you already get USB 3.0 standard, 1.0 TB GO Flex ultra-portable from Amazon for $119 or around the delta’s price for USB2.0 and 1.5TB USB 3.0 for $183~Rs. 8500

    You can contact “Delta” and ask them whether they expect/have availability of USB 3.0 standard version, otherwise you can very well go for this 2.0 model and buy the upgrade cable as and when you need USB 3.0 for mainstream usage.

  601. Congratulations, Greg! I can’t wait to see your posts about Adam … or for ordering to open up again! It’s a long wait, but I really believe it will be worth it!

  603. @Himanshu

    I will be testing out my 1 TB USB 3.0 WD Passport with Adam and let you know how it works. Hope the USB port on Adam is able to supply enough juice to power the hard drive. If not there are additional USB slots that I can draw power from.

    It would have been nice if Adam had an express card slot, so I could hook up my USB 3.0 Expresscard/34 and make use of the USB 3.0. Even the ExpressCard/34 on my notebook is not able to supply enough power and I have to hook up an external power to the ExpressCard/34 for the drive to show up in Explorer (Win7).

  604. Dear Rohan,

    You may not have marketing infrastructure like Apple or Motorola, but you do seem to have a worldwide base of die-hard Adam fans. You might want to utilize this base to make up for the marketing infrastructure.

    One way is to design a “direct marketing package” where you give the opportunity to the people who pre-ordered Adam (or commented on your blog) to sell it to others (in their social networks). The profit margins that you would have given a big retailer like best-buy/Walmart, could be passed on to these “adam evangelists”. You may offer this for a limited time, if you like. If the scheme is successful, you may later want to include those who were very successful in selling Adam in your worldwide sales team.

    with best wishes.

  605. @Himanshu

    When you get the USB 3.0 drive, get a PCIe USB 3.0 card to go with it. Stick it in your desktop and you will be able to start using USB 3.0 from the get go.

  606. What greg should offer in the NotionInkFan site is a list of public showing of Notion Ink… and all of us can put in entries… as and when we are ready to show off Adam…

    As of now it looks like the common public will only see adam in march… !!

  607. @Cathy,

    Thanks for a nice post. Hope that we’re all lucky with the round 2 of ordering. And hope that there wont be much waiting to get it after ordering through round 2.

    NI is simply buying time with their FCC labeling issue. NI could’ve shipped Adam without FCC label if they wanted to.

    They should’ve given that choice to the buyers. Already behaving live Jobs/apple. 😦
    almost all would’ve opted to buy without FCC label.

    There are bunch of tablets being sold by companies in China without FCC and customers here in US are free to buy them online and are buying them.

    Rohan mentioned the same in his post that online companies that don’t have a physical presence in US can do.

    NI doesn’t yet have retail partners nor online companies nor physical presence in US. The ordering process was online and they could’ve shipped it without FCC crap.

    Which all points to NI buying more breathing time. Probably round 2 supplies?

  608. @Rohan/NI team,

    Hope there was more success in the last week. Take rest.

    In the interview with crunchgear NI was talking lots about global when asked about after sales service.

    If global was the mantra, why that wasn’t applied for 3G? Eager to know 😉

  610. A comprehensive writeup of Eden

    “http://www.adamtabletnews.com/understanding-eden-the-notion-ink-adam-user-interface/”

    for your reading pleasure

  612. How to read the Blog:
    ctrl-f or find in whatever browser you are using.
    Search for Greg.
    Read his comments and the things he comments on.
    Done :mrgreen:

  613. @Greg,

    Congrats. Kudos to Rohan too. Hope he recognizes other fans who have been here right from the beginning and still couldn’t order. Yet still continue making sales pitches about Adam tablet to everybody.

  614. Greg it seems your dedication has been unparalleled. Fellow blog posters know you will go the extra mile to post videos, photos, results of tests, and personal comments about Adam in your hands. I agree you should have been one of the first to have Adam delivered My delivery is not scheduled till sometime in February so I and I’m sure others in the same situation are really looking forward to your reports. You will not be faulted for showing some degree of bias.

    Those of us who actually have a pre-ordered Adam scheduled for delivery are extremely fortunate people. So many are wanting and hoping for a chance at a second round of ordering. Hopefully many of us will come forward and share our experiences with Adam so those not so fortunate will have a chance to get a little closer to the Adam of there dreams.

    Hopefully Notion Ink will see fit to publish the user manual for Adam on it’s web site. So many fans and supporters are longing to have all the information about Adam they can. It really does not seem too much to ask considering all the dedication that has been shown by so many to Notion Ink. Not knowing and not being able to research and find things is one of the hardest things to deal with.

    Who is going to be first!! First to show his or her Adam. Come On Now Bring It On!!!

  615. Congrats Greg,

    You deserve the gift! I am way too happy for you to express in words buddy. Though my heart says not to speculate, my geeky mind is in disagreement with my heart and so here it goes: I feel it is gonna be a capacitive stylus (your daughter is gonna love it if thats the special gift) or sleeve or special behind the scenes info + Rohan’s signature & additional/optional developer material to round it off!

  616. I saw one FCC approval for Apple with short term confidential end date as 02/25.
    Label location directory shows like iphone.. may be verizon iphone 🙂

  619. @Cathy
    Glad u could make it to the CES. Though only for 2 hours & sad u couldn’t meet the NI team. But never mind, you covered a very important aspect while out there.
    We all were in a great dilemma as to which screen to decide for, Pixel Qi or the LCD? I guess most of us want to opt for PQi but were confused when heard regarding the color problems. But, now i’m very glad as things have cleared up.
    I’m sure to order PQi. Thanks for your Vital Information. Your trip wasn’t in vain.
    In fact you just did a great job as you have convinced us out here to get the PQi & not the LCD. Thus, converted into a bigger business for NI, while bringing 1000’s of dollars more profit to the NI pockets. 🙂
    Great Job once again! 😉

  621. @Rohan, On a serious Note: As you wanted to talk about Adam camera and its application i would love to add few ideas which will boost Adam credential and sales.
    Myself being in the surveillance & CCTV analyst industry know how simple camera application can help us in day to day life.

    Iam talking about a small external device which will act as a night vision + remote flash for Adam camera. something which is not yet done for mobile device and will be a great accessory product for Adam.

    If the len on Adam is IR sensitive than is it possible to manufacture a device which is equipped with 12 IR lights which work on inbuilt battery which will give a 10 meter night vision capability and also the same device equipped with wireless (wifi or bluetooth control) Flash / strobe light for Crystal clear night photo shoot or video recording. I think this device can easily manufactured bellow 100$ and many would love to buy it. I hope this sound logical to you and other fellow bloggers.

    Regards,
    Biswajit saha.

  623. Anybody want to trade me a quality two-stage snow blower for my pixel qi / 3g / wifi Adam? This snow is breaking my back! 😯

  624. I was intrigued by that remark as well. Like many here, I am sure, I was thinking about what Honeycomb means for NI. Certainly a spanner in the works for NI, given the hard work they put into Eden. No matter how great Eden evolves to be, it would be suicidal, business-wise, to ignore Honeycomb and Android Market access, unless NI chooses to be, what someone called, a niche product. So, playing nice with Google seems essential, and thus to provide the Honeycomb ‘experience’ as an option going forward.

    On the other hand, Eden is a remarkably good effort, or at least promises to be. It may well be better than the Honeycomb UI. However, it will be a viable strategy long-term only if Eden & Genesis provide particular advantages over generic Honeycomb. And this particular advantage can only come from unique hardware, just as it was the hardware that gave Adam so much notice at the previous CES in 2010.

    So, in sum, NI will have to continue innovating on the hardware front, providing an integrated tablet platform that the mainstream companies can never provide at the same price point, while developing Eden around it and, most importantly, effortlessly seducing developers to write specially for Genesis, so that Genesis apps are unique, tailored to the special hardware, not merely ‘generic Android’ apps.

    It will be fun to speculate what such hardware might be.

  625. Yea, Apple had 4-5 different filings since 1/10. Some have the picture of Verizon logo along with labels, so we know that’s what it is. 🙂

  627. Patiently waiting Greg’s hands-on. If NI delivers, the Adam will definitely be the most bang for the buck and have the nicest UI out-of-the-box. If it was available for pre-order at NewEgg, J&R, Amazon, etc. I would pre-order 3 today (myself, gift, donation to non-profit). All other tablets have concerns with the machines themselves. With Adam, all concerns are business related: customer service, repair policies, return policies, etc.

  630. It is awesome to finally see some videos and pics. The pics the Adam takes are pretty nice. I am so excited to get one of these outstanding devices.

    Does it have haptic feedback?

    I wish Notion Ink had an order page setup so that we could still order an Adam but just have it on back order. This would help Notion Ink in knowing how many units are needed to produce as well as show their investors how wanted the Adam is.

    Notion Ink FTW!

  631. Wondering why the folks who received aren’t sharing any info yet… Are they unaware of how eagerly we are waiting here 😛

    * lazy musings *

  632. Speaking of sleeve/cases, what could we buy as soon as the adam is delivered (assuming no official NI accessories will be available then)? On ebay I see only cases which wouldn’t fit the adam as they are too small.

  633. Excellent news. Rohan we all love your work. Keep going. We in Europe will be waiting for having the oportunity to order online.

  634. Thanks for the link Greg… Interesting article trying to compare Adam to the Ipad 2.

    Here is an excerpt I found most intriguing….

    Like other Android powered devices, the Adam will be fully capable of reading data transferred and stored on its internal memory. It’s also quite likely that it would be equipped to handle all kinds of video formats without the need for conversion. No pesky proprietary software thrown in to gum up the works.

    The Adam will be available in a Wi-Fi only model as well as a 3G + Wi-Fi version. Although it’s not been specifically mentioned, it’s possible the Adam will be equipped with a standard SIM card slot.
    Running on an Android Platform, Notion Ink’s Adam, like other devices available already, would almost certainly have normal phone/SMS capabilities.

    As many of you know I’ve been wishing for the 3g Adam to have cellular phone ability and it still remains an unanswered question on the Notion Ink – Frequently Asked Questions Wiki. It would indeed be a pleasant surprise if it is there. Meaning FM radio was not the only Mystery feature.

  635. So why arn’t all the EAP members now blogging about their experiences? First shipments going out and people are excited. Is the confidentiality agreement not gone after first shipment?

    There has got to be some secret forum people are getting access to once they get their adam. It seems as though no one with an adam returns here. They are either too consumed with it or there is a secret forum already set up for EAP and Preorder people?

  636. BTW, Himanshu, I had posted one good 2.5″ portable seagate option for you where we were having our discussion. I would have advised on the Western Digital 1TB 3.0 Passport Essential portable option too, but I am not able to find the 1TB USB 3.0 option from WD here with many retailers. And by the way though Transcend is a good brand, my choice would be Seagate or WD for their space, price and speed options.

  637. I have an HTC. And I use xda custom software on it. However, I made a conscious decision not to overclock and fry my hardware/increase my battery consumption/heat up my device/ reduce the life of my equipment.

    The need is not some short blast of steroid power to make it superfast. The key is balance of all resources to get optimum utility. I’d prefer a good optimized system over a cranked up system (unless I have reasons to re-prioritize my needs).

    Having said that, I am sure Adam can match performance as long as we compare apples to apples.

  638. +1

    My concerns are not technical. It is more about customer service. I hope they will work out the kinks.

  639. Its really getting intresting now and todays post just boosts the confidence on Adam little more higher on the performance front.

  640. Would Love to hear from owners once the CE has been approved and the devices finally have been delivered.

  641. Hi all,
    check this site:
    “http://androidcommunity.com/notion-ink-adam-q-and-a-session-microsdhc-video-ext-hard-drive-sniffer-20110112/”

    can90 of XDA Developers Forums emailed soem questions to NI and received answers:
    “Greetings from the Notion Ink Support Team!

    1. Can we plug in headset to Notion Ink Adam? Yes

    2. What is the resolution and fps of video recording of Adam? resolution 640 x 480 and fps of 15 fps.

    3. Can we plug 1TB hard drive to it? We are not too sure if a HD of that size would show up.

    4. Can we disable the ambient light sensor if we want? Yes.

    5. Sniffer shows 1 USB drive even a USB drive doesn’t plugged. However, we have 2 USB port. What if we plug 2 USB flash drive at a time, will it work? Will Sniffer shows both of them? No, it would only work and show 1 device.

    6. Can leaves work in the portrait mode? No

    7. Will Notion Ink come with screen protector or not? Yes, the Adam will come with a screen protector.

    Thank you for your continued support to Notion Ink!

    Warm Regards
    Jon
    Notion Ink Support Team

    I also learned that Notion Ink Adam supports MicroSDHC upto 128 GB. Hope I could help for others who has those questions in their mind.”

  642. @Veeraraagavan Can’t reply you below it as seems it’s higher than 10 level :).

    Thanks a ton for your help :). I will call the website-ownersand will get the info regarding whether they ship the place where I am right now. And it lessened a lot of tension as you know the owner personally so at least no chances of fraud etc (As i have many problems in buying online in India so this is the first thing i look for:) ).
    This Sea gate option looks much better than transcend. Will inquire the RPM too as it was not mentioned. Found some other items too on the website which i was searching 🙂

  643. +1. Though there is fellow mate named as Alexus Noir(aka black lexus) who initially posted because he had some problems with his adam and he was part of EAP1. He still posts his comments on this blog but never ever answers when asked about his apps development thing :). I too agree there may be a secret forum going on or atleast for them Genesis is accessible.

  645. yes I have just replied you and thanks here again for the website and for the links 🙂 . It looks promising option and better than Transcend prima facie. Will be checking his rpm from the website guys tomorrow . The website had some sleeves too ;).

  648. Thanx karen for this post, I was wondering where to buy a screen protector of adam size.

  649. This link was posted in androidcommunity. Copying it here for guys who need to know more about SDHC, mini SDHC and Micro SDHC cards “http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdhc/”
    Hope it helps.

  650. Probably they are are speechless and keep the Adam in their hands like gollum his treasure ! 😉

  651. Oh, my … I didn’t expect so much response to my little time at CES 🙂 It was quite a run from registration to the Pixel Q booth (my husband said I was nuts … and I suspect I would not have gotten in if the door had not been open while they were talking to someone else. However, once in, the guys were VERY nice, and even went outside with me.

    My friends, please do keep in mind that color is very subjective, and every eye sees differently, so what pleases one may disappoint someone else. Also, if I understand the tech specs (NOT my area of expertise; I’m a user, not a tech person), Adam has the touch screen on top in a somewhat matte finish, so that may affect also; the guys at Pixel Q didn’t think it would be noticeable though.

    The video I saw was penguins, and the color was good for my needs; certainly good enough to watch movies, videos, etc.; good enough for me to proof a brochure if I didn’t have my 17″ laptop along. Maybe not proof for color accuracy, as that should be a professionally calibrated monitor, but surely good enough for content and a good representation of color.

    And no, I didn’t want to “bother” Rohan and team either; they have far more important things to do right now than talk to me 🙂 Just thought I might have bit of luck and catch a glimpse. Funny thing is, the last photo posted of hotel shows a view of Bellagio Hotel, not 100 feet from where I was standing … was I standing that close and didn’t know it … ?

    Greetings to all,

    Cathy

  652. I hope they open back up for orders soon..I was hoping to have one before I go to MMS in late March. That would be great.

  653. Hey Daniel, Just go ahead with Adam and it will surprise you each day. We like to see you showoff your Adam to your dad 1st. 😉

  654. Riley i hope you are trying to say manual focus on Adam? which i guess not. A simple auto focus with macro mode will give you good close object photograph. Great feature for tablet, is’nt it?

  655. I thought you were at some part of Europe. Today you are a universal man in gravitation around Earth with Rohan’s news. Congratulations!

  656. You sure? you mean exactly like this?

    “https://notionink.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/browserb.png”

  657. Sprint just lowered the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab to $199. Me thinks another version is coming out in the Feb 17 announcement. Still, I like the Adam more.

  658. @Bernd, where did you buy this?
    I want to buy one too (or 3 or …)

    Thx in advance.

    Greetz.

    Daryl

  659. Yes, that’s obviously the one which makes the screen matte as seen in the last videos from CES. I assume that the screen without this protector film will be glaring.

  662. Now i would love to see Adam beside these two and outperform. I hope Rohan can show us Adam Vs BlackBerry PlayBook Vs iPad Comparison: Web Fidelity.

  665. And i reply to him that support Team need to be brief because SDHC is limited to 32 Gb

    What shock me is the limitation of VGA mode for video recording and limitation on number of USB Pen

    What’s strange too is that Android 2.3 use ext4 that is limited to 1 EB …
    = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 Bytes
    or 1024 x 1024 x Tb

  666. No flash is good for me, but …. then I would like to see an image stabilizer. Of course it would have to be a software stabilizer. A venus -system like in the Panasonic Lumix is probably out of the question. Actually , why is it we don’t see this pin hones and other devices?

  670. Oh man, there is so much good stuff here from everyone else. That’s why I’m here. To read everyone else’s comments!

    But thanks for the compliment…

  671. Awfully decent of Rohan to send Greg a special something. He’s been perhaps the most forgiving family member of all and he’s been a terrific evangelist for Adam, defending it on all tech forums especially during the CES in the most admirably even-tempered way possible. It is good to see such efforts being rewarded. Well done!

  672. A lot of people are speculating about something extra being sent with the Adam tablet. I guess you can read what Rohan said that way…

    But when I read it I thought the Adam tablet itself is the surprise. Meaning the fact that Rohan is personally sending it now rather than later like I expected.

    But who knows. It sure will be an interesting unboxing video! 😀

    (As I think about it, Rohan knows I have not tried Indian food yet so maybe he is sending some “spicy tongue”… LOL All the people that have been here a long time will get that joke.)

  674. Notion Ink would not need Google’s permission to open source the leaves and tie it to Android. This would mean that Android tablets would need to add a “theme” option to the Android install – an open source theme that Notion Ink notionally controls in the sense that they are heft behind the OSS project.

  677. Why can’t I stop checking this blog?
    All the time I want new information on Adam and Notionink.
    Why is it controlling my life?
    It’s not that I’m waiting for my tablet, I not one of the happy few…
    Why does this company keeps getting my attention, what is it that makes me type this words.
    It’s not the “blogging” itself, I’m not the fastest writer, I hate blogging, it’s actually the first blog ever I’m writing on.
    I need someone to explaine me things, I’m affraid things go wrong…

    Rohan has a certain influence on a group of people, it feels very positive, but it also feels like an addiction, that shouldn’t feel so good.

    could a certain tablet cure my mental problem?

    ???

  678. @greg

    Fan-tas-tic!! As the pre-eminent Notion Ink fan you have well deserved the recognition/reward. Now the unboxing video should have an additional section of wow’s showing your surprise with this mystery gift.

    Cheers.

  681. @Karen, I have noticed, quite a lot actually.
    By the way, there is one Dutch dude, he posted some “unboxing” pictures online.
    Not really unboxing, because he sent just one picture of adam and the rest were pictures of the package he received.

    Daryl.

  682. +1

    If we need to use Visa that’s fine, but a bit of warning would be nice (prepaid cards can take 36 hours to become active).

    Mastercard would be better though 🙂

  684. You don’t have to turn it off. I saw a video of Rohan showing the adam to someone, engadget I think, and you will be able to use the normal os if you don’t feel like eden.

  685. From the videos I’ve seen Playbook would win on power and possibly slightly better build quality, but adam would have more features and probably be less expensive. There is a slashgear hands on in which they opened up 3 heavy duty apps (3D ray tracing, Quake 1stpers-on shooter, and a 1080p video) and the Playbook navigated flawlessly without any lag. The video I’ve seen of the adam had 18-20 apps opened (but nothing heavy duty) and it performed with only a very slight lag. Blogs seem to have concerns with the Playbook battery life though (i.e., performance comes at a cost). I do not like the idea that you will probably have to buy it through Verizon, AT&T, etc.

  686. “http://www.slashgear.com/blackberry-playbook-demo-and-hands-on-by-mike-lazaridis-07124552/”

  687. I want this so bad it hurts. Hurry up and make more please! My laptop battery is worthless and I don’t want to waste the $ on another one when I’m going to get the adam.

  688. The confusion arises from the default settings. If you would put the Adam´s brightness on full instead of automatic than it would be extremely close to every LCD I have seen. However the whole idea is to have it automatically adjust to the actual light as measured by the ambient sensor. In as good as all situation this will be less vivid as it never reaches max.

    Very good as my laptop is always a bit dim by day and too bright at night so it´s very convenient, but reviewers either use the manual full brightness or they are not aware of it and compare apples and adams.

  690. Rohan,

    I saw on your Crunchgear video that you are waiting on the Pixel Qi screens. I want to order an LCD modelw ith WiFi how long until we can order those?

    I also just had a GPS go bad and bought the Navigon for Android, I really want that GPS app that was demoed on the Adam. Is there any more information on that?

    Thanks so much,
    Mike

  691. @can90

    Thanks buddy . The Adam promo video is rocking .hoping so much such videos 🙂 every where in Internet 🙂

  692. Hello all,

    I definitelly love the pictures!, though… does Adam has a good digital Stabilizer?? what about Video Recording? Is adam capable of doing it (is it prepare with the software, cuz i know it is capable.. its like the 2IRONTABLET”, has everything… well we can always wish for more!)…

    Anyways… i am also with some questions that may be silly for some, probably already said in the forums… ( i lost track during the holydays and had to pick up real quickly, maybe i lost something)…. but… I heard a time ago that ADAM was going to be capable of runing Ubuntu, and Crome OS, is this still true? or is it only sticking to Android for now? … now.. if Android is the OS, then Eden would be something like the Spring board on the Iphone??(not meaning something similar in quality … iugggg spring board!!!) meaning the user interface on top of a OS, like it happens in Linux?

    Also… Rohan, you promised the Mistery bonus feature.. probably that is no longer a mistery but as i said, i lost the track, so.. if it is already know… WHICH IS IT??? if not… WHEN WILL WE KNOW!!!! hahahaha sorry that was Anxiousness screaming….

    By the way.. as much a i hate to be Next to the US (in Mexico)…. i guess we may have the same FCE an CE reglamentation here, but…. who cares!!! send it right away…. if it explodes it would be just another mexican blown away for a good cause!!! Just Kidding.. i really hope it is ready soon.

    Best regards

  693. oh yeah!! I am sick and tired of laptop battery, fan sound, hot laptop burning my thighs, heavy lifting, huge price, no touch screen etc etc. I am all for getting rid of my laptop. I will not spend a single dime on laptop anymore.

  695. One more reason to believe that APPLE is in Dippers .. don’t get me wrong .. i mean old Mand Dippers.. they are getting out of ideas and think the world is doumb to get theirs “not so well thought” products!!!.. Probably NI still has Dippers on.. bot on the contrary, I see Rohan really getting to overcome that with ADAM.. which the best for NI!!!

    Regards
    Kromot

  697. Hello Biswajit,

    I don’t mean to say your idea is Bad… but probably people requiring that kind of gadgets, would be pretty much involved into PRO photography or video edition… therefore, what best to do the job than a Specialiced Device (Camera or video recorder with a great Nightshoot)… don’t get me wrong but i don’t see my self runing with my Adam in the dark holding it with my two hands trying to film some kind of “Blair Ink Project” and suddenly an un seen Rock make me fall… man…. what a dilema.. Save th e Adam.. or sabe my teeths… (probably save the Adam)…

    Sorry to spoild your serios comment with my silly analogy, but my point is… maybe sometimes it is good not to try to cover everything in a not “too good quality”, and focuse on providing SOMETHING in a GREAT quality … hope this is true with NI.

    Best Regards.

  698. NICE!!!…

    well… i work in the Electronic Industry.. and here you see bunch of people trying to get the latest of latest in regard of technology… i have put many people on Hold buying a Tablet…. why?? well.. i introduced them the ADAM (not many knew about it) and now the really want to see it perform live!! so i guess i will be like a circus clown when i have my ADAM in my hands…

    If the device perfoms as promissed, i would definitelly work to be a Distributor of it here in Mexico.. (getting things shipped to Mx is hard.. i am actually praying my Adam make it through Customs )

    Regards
    Kromot

  700. Another interested Dutchie overhere (groningen area), no pre-order lucky guy…. Would be great to see Adam shine IRL.

  703. No I mean Gingerbread, as far as we know, the SDK has not been officially released, so that’s possibly because NI is bringing it up to speed with 2.3 Honeycomb will spawn a new cycle when it is released.

  704. All those who got their ADAM are tooooo busy playing with it to tell us :-/
    Please start preorder2 Rohan

  705. In one or two videos he shows that you can double-swipe Eden out of the way and deal directly with basic Android, but IMHO I don’t see it being a big advantage, even when Honeycomb really appears, Eden’s panels or leaves are the way I will be doing most of my interaction. Adam is fantastic hardware but stock standard Android doesn’t do it justice.

  706. I read my mistake, I forgot the word : “think” between “don’t” and “you”.

    Daryl.

  707. Being able to connect the headset doesn’t mean it will work as a phone, the only thing Rohan has said for sure is that it can text, he’s never implied you can make calls. However I assume that programs such as Skype would work and you could use a headset with that.

  708. Wow Greg!!! Awesome….
    Just came to the blog , was late from work today, what with the NY snow and all…
    This is great News. I would say a well deserved gift !!!
    I am happy for you and envious at the same time…lol 😉

  709. Yes, he showed, a two finger swipe down on the the panel view, and it showed the desktop and android.

    and a two finger swipe up from the desktop to bring eden back up.

  710. Greg,

    At the outset, my congrats on getting a special gift from Rohan..Even though we all are jealous of this , you truly deserve for being an unofficial PRO (Public Relations Officer) for Adam…I hope you are getting a LCD version so that we all can get a great comparitive analysis on both models from you…

    Again congrats !!

    Regards
    Souri

  712. Phillip, he has not implied that you can make phone calls with the adam but several video’s have. On several videos you can see a cell signal strength icon appear in the task bar. Also several videos have shown an icon with the name “Phone” on the desktop and under the installed apps menu… We have not received confirmation if these were VOIP apps or the ability to make calls through the Cell phone network. IMO they are icons for Google Voice and this app will allow you to make calls and receive calls through Wifi and 3G data, NOT using the Cell network and cell “Minutes” but that doesnt explain why the Cell bar strength signal is present…

  713. @Everybody, will anybody WITH an adam be in Beijing next weekend?
    I will be one, unfortunately WITHOUT one.

    Greetz.

    Daryl.

  714. Lets officially call it Backorder 2? lol, the adam is released people! No longer a preorder 😛 Unless NI is not considering it “Released” until it starts appearing in Retail stores?

  715. Do you think i could install a home screen launcher there without messing up eden? Cause the homescreen looked pretty bland

  716. Also, Off-late I cannot see the guys(Founder, co-founder and Programmer) commenting here, who first designed their company website to be viewed in all browsers except IE and later upgraded the site to support IE after receiving comments from the users.

  717. I would totally love to be wrong and eat my words… but I somehow doubt that the first few are in the hands of the new owners…. ready to be shipped, maybe… I mean, presumably people would have been at least following this blog for them to have order the Adam… and I find it hard to believe that not a single one would turn back and mention the Adam already been shipped or already with him/her….

    I just hope the issues with FCC/CE are ironed out quickly and I remain on track for my device (shipping Jan 15-22)…

    Again… I will be so happy to be wrong here…. please please please prove me wrong…

  719. Paul, WTF do you need a translation app for? You’re Dutch. I thought Dutch people were born speaking 3 languages, and then just picked up more on the way, maybe they come up through the soil or something.

  720. well that would be shipped and not at hand!! still not wrong!! hahahaha…

    but lets hope Greg shares to us when he finally put his hands on his “precious”!

    Regards

  721. the wording says “I am shipping”… not have shipped…. but then I hope at least by now it has shipped.

    Any shipping details, Greg? Just curious what shipping will be used for the US. Though for Greg’s special case (congrats, by the way 🙂 ), it may well be different. I just want to be home when it arrives at my doorstep.

  722. Bob:
    > What if it shows up on Tuesday and is just sitting there, mocking me until I can open it on Friday??

    Adam is packed in sarcasm-absorbing foam. But, seriously, if you can’t stand mocking, this might not be the right blog for you. You can trust me on this.

  723. Greg:
    > I’m the guy walking around with the ridiculously huge grin on my face!

    Ah. That *is* your face. Good. In that case, you can post a picture of your grin.

  724. Hey, Cathy! I picture you ballooning into Vegas, and handing out pizza at CES. Sorry you’re stuck in Vegas another week, but I trust you’ll survive, and will be stronger for it.

  725. I am jealous of you Greg 😦 :(. You and me started more or like during the same period, you have got personal attention from every one and none me :(. Just kidding, congrats. Stil jealous 🙂

    @Rohan, I don’t ask for a special note just an adam order link (I couldn’t order one during pre-order 1 as I moved home during 8th weekend and didn’t know where to order to 😦 )

  726. Great article! Thanks for posting that. I had no idea that the xoom doesn’t really exist yet! To be given best in show is really bad and sets a terrible precedent! Imagine if the Courier had got best in show last year!
    I’m really stunned by this.

  729. Glad this company’s motives are passed simply making some money to feed selfish desires. Excited to know they understand and treasure how valuable dreams are. More importantly, they’ve proved their beliefs in the accomplishments on this technological marvel that calling it only a product would not do suffice. I tell people around me about the adam, a valuable tool we can all use. The design in general is quite interesting i only hope that one day they’ll achieve and unpresidented amount of energy efficiency. Imagine the Adam Tablet lasting a month on a single charge?

  730. @Rohan
    i apologize if if this is too much to ask.

    every time when i talk to friends about adam they are captivated and finally the question is ” adam released” or not? i am clueless don’t know what to answer.some how convincing them for now. but how long 🙂

    This is my humble request . any time if you can answer i will the happiest person in the world.

    Long live “adam “. Thanks for all the hard work and support .

  734. Am thinking it very well could be an indian recipe book.
    😉 just kidding to stay with the Indian food theme.

  735. AP: What can customers expect when they open the box with their Adam? What kind of peripherals? Cables, etc.

    Rohan: Adam comes with special Box design which can be converted into a stand, a charger and Matte Protection Film.

  737. @Gecko,

    Thank goodness we can depend on you to point out foolishness; it’s most welcome!

    Penguins were: Crisp white and black, stepping off white icebergs, iinto deep blue water 🙂

    Hot Air Balloon experience: One ride, helped with three launches, none in Vegas.

    Handing out pizza experience: Countless; also not in Vegas.

    Surviving Vegas …. doubtful; my partners showed up last night … 🙂

  740. If you want to try the real taste of India, try picking up Mango pickle from some indian store in SLC (I moved away from your SLC recently, DEN -> PHL and the disaster couldn’t order adam ). This is the best part of traditional indian pickles :). If you are comfortable with it you can then ledge further.

  741. Oh, how far did you say it was from Las Vegas to Utah? 🙂 Just joking of course as I have to leave here and go home to Pennsylvania on the 16th. Enjoy that celebration!

  744. where has this info come from Ash ???

    mine is due to ship 15th to 22nd and i sincerely hope it does not slip yet again, it started as the 6th jan then the 9th jan now the 15th to 22nd jan.

    come on Rohan get them shipped people have waited long enough and you”ve had my money since early december.

  746. No, Not exactly like that, That image is rendered and a little exaggerated. But yes, the concept is the same.

    When he posted that image, many people started complaining that it sorta looked ugly and unusable. So, he probably took their suggestion and made it a little more subtle. I think now, it looks fantastic and very usable.

  749. @amarko
    we all are waiting. let’s hope for the best . soon our adam will reach all the folks .
    you are luck to get a chance to order . i am still waiting to order 🙂 of-course happily 🙂

  750. Congrats Greg. I am so jealous. BTW, do we know which countries are receiving/ have received the adam? More importantly, is India on that list? We know the negative list – US and Europe but not much else.

  751. I doubt it Shyam. For one, Rohan already has one – and I’m almost sure the rest of the NI team will want to get theirs before you!!

  752. @ Himanshu: cool 🙂
    @ Greg, think you might even get a T shirt that NI guys might have made for their team members! And /or a mug too! Or an App which will not be released to public for a while.
    @ Rohan: You are gonna be angry with me for speculating so many things (includiing the one you might be sending him)

  753. something amway does. It’s hard to track. How do you convince NI that you sold it? Best is buy a set of tablets from NI and re-sell them in original package and get it activated by NI through the device id and get the credit.

  754. Anybody have any really good browser-based flash games that they play that would good for the Adam?

    I just found a decent one I’m hoping to try out called “Batheo”. Pretty neat game and looking forward to seeing how it displays on the Adam.

    Check it out here “http://batheo.clapalong.com/”

    Pretty robust browser-based civ game.

  756. It looks like Genesis may have access from Adam, but I found this too:

    “http://genesis.notionink.com/”

    With only the following text –

    It works!

    This is the default web page for this server.

    The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

  757. Showing the desktop does not mean that it is gingerbread or honeycomb…

    at this point… adam at the operating system level is a customized 2.3, with some portions yet using 2.2 froyo…

    likewise… the next version they release might be a customized 2.3 & 2.4 (or honeycomb 3)

    either way… it will not be a pure android, that you can install… like linux / windows from a distributor (like ubuntu or redhat) and then install adam on top of it…

    it is either adam or ubuntu or gingerbread or honeycomb… or it can be a dual boot… etc.,etc., but none of this other than a pure adam is supported by Notion Ink.

  759. Wow! I feel so left out greg, care to share?

    Can’t wait to get a chance to order mine… I am sold on adam.
    priti

  760. i do think NI is different because of the Eden UI and power consumption aspects of the leaves design … forward thinking on hardware is obviously important, but i believe the form factor coupled with the software approach will be the winning formula … i don’t know how many times on my work pc I end up having to close down a program here or there because too many apps are open ( running in FULL mode ) … i think the leaves ( mini-apps ) approach in Eden is the foundation for moving us away from desktops … or as Rohan has said freeing us from our desks … IMHO …

  761. Dear Friends Waiting For Adam…..

    I have been back to the blog several times today in hopes that someone may post about receiving their new Adam. The silence in that regard is deafening. We here are so overly eager about Adam. So many of us have become so obsessed with this device from Notion Ink. I tell myself, step back take a deep breath. Things will happen in their due time. We have learned a lot about Adam the last few weeks. Yet, we still feel unfulfilled. For months we have followed and waited, and waited even past the days of what is supposed to be the first shipments. We continue to wait. Some of us are fortunate. We were able to get an order in and have hope of seeing Adam perhaps by the end of February. My shipping date still remains listed as just February. There are many that post here that are just pleading for a chance to place an order. It all seems a little crazy…………

    Through all the information we have gathered there still is so much we don’t know. Some wonder why Notion Ink can’t tell us more. More about shipping, more about when orders will open again and still we wait. We still long for more information about what Adam will and will not do. Yet, we have purchased or want to purchase anyway. We sense that Adam will be the best of it’s kind. Being an early adopter and purchaser of Adam is surely, more painful, then someone who discovers Adam at a best buy a year from now. We continue to wait……

    So Dear Friends waiting for Adam, may your disappointment only be in the waiting process, and may Adam be every thing you thought he would be………..

  762. Wow! That was a good explaination indeed i always found it hard to explain 4:3 and 16:9 but circle analogy makes it very simple

  763. I just hope adam doesn’t require rooting simple adb push/pull should take care of making your device vanilla

  765. @Notion Ink Fan Members waiting for Adam

    Many of you seem to be avid photographers. If so, while you are waiting, check out this wonderful photographers blog. Dave Lloyd has won many awards. His blog is full of pictures and hints on how to use digital cameras and Photoshop.

    He takes his cameras to the most unusual places. Likewise, the Adam may soon be providing many a web portrait/picture of unexplored opportunities.

    “http://eyemindsoul.blogspot.com/”

  767. Greating from Kuala Lumpur…

    Thanks for the XDA developer links…

    I am a long time member there…

    Waiting mode for the Adam !!!

  769. @tbc, gaming will be more fluid in Adam then playbook for sure. Nobody can beat Nvidia for that. Adam was built for superfast web browsing experience. I think in previous post we all have seen how fast pages open in Adam. May be playbook & Adam both has a very good browser.

  770. not sure you are correct about matte screen protector, rohan has described the design of the screen and from what i have read the screen has a matte finish

  771. @Greg said, on January 12, 2011 at 21:05

    > …I’m the guy walking around with the ridiculously huge grin on my face!

    You mean like Smiling Bob [ “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghrWz7cVXv8” ] ?

    🙂

  772. but far worth getting pixel qi, the screen design of the future. your eyes will thank you.

    p.s. commenters said they only notice the difference in colors when putting the screen side by side with a bright lcd

  773. Does anybody else find it slightly odd that the NI team wasn’t able to test a 1TB drive with Adam? I understand not working on complete compatibility, but it only takes 30 seconds to plug the thing in and see if it shows up…

    And you would think that a limitation on the size of external storage would be known by the team. This is, after all, their code.

  775. Actually, (micro)SDHC cards are artificially limited to 32GB. Ignoring the arbitrary decision to limit SDHC (violating specifications), it suppots up to 4GB.

    I’m not sure where 128GB is coming from, unless they plan on releasing a 96GB integrated version with 32GB SD.

  776. Thank you so much for your input, and for going all the way to CES just for us! 🙂

    Hopefully this will finally put the worries about PQ to bed. I was never actually worried, I ordered PQ with no hesitation, and never really bought into the fear that the colors would be ruined. But a lot of people were worried, and so we all thank you.

  777. My initial guess of the size of the first pre-order is about 1,000 or 10,000 with the 70:30 ratio between LCD & PiQi

    My initial guess is based on a couple of things… based on glitches and other issues, including the waits and the communication gaps, there has not been a very high degree of comments, other than the usual suspects…

    Further, during the crunch gear live video feed when they were hunting for rohan, there were about 780 live viewers, which later dropped to 650 viewers… so there were approximately 100-200 users interested to see the video feed…

    extrapolating such numbers… it kind of gives you the guesstimate of the size of the order…

    of course, i fully respect rohan’s rightful privacy on this… but the market size helps to gain insight as to the size of the market for this niche device… and all the more important, because of the way it is going to be marketed…

  781. About the shipping for 15th-22nd, I’ve been thinking about that, too. My impressions are that the devices have been approved, they just need to stick the numbers on it. This should only take a few days (the impression I got from the blog and emails), and should hopefully be done before the 15th.

    The reason we were pushed back to the 15th had to do with production, not shipping. So as long as they are all ready, they can all ship. We may all get our Adams on the same schedule!

    So overall I think that this would only delay those of us shipping 15th-22nd if the FCC ID still isn’t resolved by then. Lets hope, anyway….

  783. @Greg is this you?? Someone posted this on Notioninkhacks

    “http://notioninkhacks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=223”

  784. Disagree.

    APL fanboys make stuff up like how they were the first phone to be environmentally sound (they weren’t. As a matter of fact, after most companies got clean, they decided to use non-recyclable / toxic materials, got media flack for it, then cleaned up for the next gen.

    Most people here also support small companies like NI and realize they’re not gimping their product just to sell more or just to hype up a future product “improvement”. (Multitasking? wifi tether? front-facing camera on the pad? video chat locked to wifi?)

    And so on.

    I have not seen anyone make stuff up on these comment threads, so NI addicts are *BETTER*, IMHO.

  786. I suppose you could get one of those USB snake lights. 😉

    Or what would be cooler (though less practical): Flash sync to your mobile phone ^^

  787. Given below is the response I received from the very prompt NI support team (responded in 3 hours!). The now famous Jon tells me three important things:

    1. What’s in the box – Yes, there is a screen protector. I assume a DIY.

    2. All adams will be shipped with labels. So we (in India) aren’t getting them any sooner than those in the US and Europe.

    3. Once they ship it out, they let you know the tracking number. Has anyone got a tracking number at all? Those scheduled for shipping on the 9th? I suspect not!

    Since it’s DHL, I suspect they will fly the devices to the various destinations (which is why the cost of shipping is so high but it’s so much faster). I know that they fly the stuff for Amazon and the shipping charges are usually in the same range. I ordered my Kindle last year and they flew it from the US for about US$ 30. I could track the package from the warehouse through Heathrow right down to DHL’s collection warehouse in Mumbai – delivery all in 4 days flat.

    Back to the adam. Here is the email from NI:

    “Dear Amit,

    Greetings from the Notion Ink Support Team!

    Our system indicate that your device would be shipped to you between the January 15 to January 22 slot. We do not have a specific date when the Adam would be shipped to you. Also, we should be able to provide you with the tracking number and concerned carrier once we have this information.

    Please also note that all the Adam devices would be shipped with FCC/CE prints.

    The Adam Box would come with the Adam device itself, universal charger, system manual and a screen protector. We will be happy to assist you further if you have any other queries.

    Thank you for your continued support to Notion Ink!

    Warm Regards
    Jon
    Notion Ink Support Team”

  788. @Daryl
    I think Lexar 32 GB MicroSDHC Class 10 is a better choice, since it is 108$ in amazon and shipping is available to every country. I think I will buy that.

  789. I hate to say it, but we have to do a lot guessing when it comes to things like how many pre orders, actual shipping date, when new orders will begin. From things like the mystery feature to how certain facets of Adam are going to work. Things like will we get cellular phone call ability with Adam, what type of drives will the usb ports actually support. This is just the short list. Don’t get me wrong I am no way angry about this situation. Over time you learn to live with it. Even with Adam preparing to ship, the unanswered questions are still plentiful. I have come to the conclusion that the wonderful things about Adam that we are reasonably sure of, will out weigh any possible negative thing we may discover. I see no deal breakers here!!! So with that in mind patience is what we need to have.

    All things about Adam, and most things about the process of Adams birth, will be revealed in time. I do forecast (for what it is worth) that Notion Ink will be more of a niche company in it’s early years. I think that is what Notion Inks is working for now. That is not a bad thing, for what is a niche now, can turn into a true leader in the future. Being part of Notion Ink’s early start can be a special experience if we look at it with an open mind. If Adam is only produced in low numbers in it’s first year, those of us who have followed the company and the product with our hearts and purchases could end up being among the very privileged. Privileged to own one of the best devices in it’s class across the whole world.

  791. Rohan did say that the Adam was specifically “male”…

    Maybe Adam took them out for some drinks, and woke up in jail. (Or maybe that’s just MY friends..)

  792. Ah, we’d need Sowmya back for the “spicy tongue” … Sowmya, hope you read this 🙂

  793. This proves if you ask in the proper place (not this blog) you can get some answers. I suggest that blog poster here take their questions to Jon of the Notion Ink Support team. The blog does not appear to be the best place to ask questions.

  794. @jacknone I feel same. Congratulations Greg.

    My speculation, What if Rohan sends you earliest prototype, the first ADAM (I think he will not) showcased during CES 2009.

    @Rohan You really stand apart man. No CEO personally dispatches a product!.

  796. Rohan,

    I have a request, In next post could you please send us a picture of yours holding both The first ADAM (you showcased at CES last year, I consider it very important and should be part of NI museum -);) and This final finished ADAM.

  797. Rohan, If you don’t want to send that picture in next post, then please make a note of it and plan to send it in coming months.

  798. @Greg
    How glad I am! I had mentioned “If I were Rohan, I would have given to you and you deserve it..”

    Whether Rohan saw my post or not, I still want to THANK him for this great gesture!

    Thanks Rohan. I can not thank you enough!

  799. @Greg
    How glad I am! I had mentioned “If I were Rohan, I would have given Adam to you and you deserve it..”

    Whether Rohan saw my post or not, I still want to THANK him for this great gesture!

    Thanks Rohan. I can not thank you enough for this!

  801. I prefer the radial arrangement, looks more interesting, dynamic and not rigid. If you looked at Emblaze’s ELSE user interface it’s sort of like that only better and it looks really cool. And the animation is awesome. I didn’t read the complaints about being ugly and unusable. In fact, if you say that the difference is subtle then the ugliness will still be there. Take a look at this:

    “http://www.intomobile.com/2010/06/30/first-else-canceled-will-license-os/”

    Really cool menu, eh?!

  802. Will the Eve smartphone be using the same Eden interface or is that only good for a tablet?

    How about using this UI instead?
    “http://www.intomobile.com/2010/06/30/first-else-canceled-will-license-os/”

  803. Is there someone in this community who actualy has the ADAM?
    Show Us something, tell us something, make pictures, produce a movie.

  804. Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    Don`t know if it has been posted before, but this could be the sleeve used by “Rohans gang” for their adams during CES:

    “http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/10-2-ANDROID-TABLET-PC-EPAD-NOTEBOOK-SLEEVE-POUCH-UK-/180601243078?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopAccessories_LaptopCasesBags&hash=item2a0cac45c6”

  805. Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    Don`t know if it has been posted before, but this could be the sleeve used by “Rohans gang” for their adams during CES:

    “cgi.ebay.co.uk/10-2-ANDROID-TABLET-PC-EPAD-NOTEBOOK-SLEEVE-POUCH-UK-/180601243078?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopAccessories_LaptopCasesBags&hash=item2a0cac45c6″

  806. Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    Don`t know if it has been posted before, but this could be the sleeve used by “Rohans gang” for their adams during CES:

    “http://cgi.eb ay.co.uk/10-2-ANDROID-TABLET-PC-EPAD-NOTEBOOK-SLEEVE-POUCH-UK-/180601243078?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopAccessories_LaptopCasesBags&hash=item2a0cac45c6″

  807. Imagine if you could use your Adam as a phone 🙂

    … holding it close to your ear, as if it were a giant cell phone… 😀

    On a more serious note, I wouldn’t mind using it with a headset for making calls.

  809. Wish you had accepted to my offer to stay with me (in India) to get your Adam faster! In that case I could have seen Adam earlier. Mine is due in the week of Jan15. 😀

  810. we know:
    1) adam does not have (out of the box) access to android market because on android 2.2(3) that feature is reserved for devices with phone capability (e.g. galaxy tab).
    2) rohan once said that adam will be able to send/receive sms messages. if it had a phone capability, there would be no need to mention this.

    to me these two clearly lead to the conclusion that adam will not have the phone capability. sorry.

  811. Rohan, NI, fellow adamites.
    I’m going to be a daddy… Yeah!!!
    Already been told if it’s a boy that he can’t be called Rohan or adam 😦 (Not like I was going to anyway)
    Orders page back up soon? I don’t care if it’s lcd although prefer the pixelQi screens. So many people at work, family and friends waiting to see my adam. They’re starting to laugh at me. I can’t wait to show them that there are things better thaan the i-crap collection. Adam eats the apple.

  812. The photos look good but then when in full size, they don’t look so good. Does the ISO auto adapt to lighting? What are the jpeg compression settings? Maybe a little rework on this could give greater results.
    I do understand that the results will not be as good as a DSLR.

  813. Prema, is there an echo in here? …echo in here? …ere? 😉 But seriously, thanks! I bought that now, so let’s see what comes first. I fear it’s the sleeve.

  814. Would you be so kind to post reviews about it here once you get it? I have to pay the same amount as the product for shipping. It would probably be very helpful to get a review before.

  815. rohan saying that some of them hav already received their adams, why r we yet see an unbox video? Did anybody find 1? Did i miss?

  816. I guess no one has received yet. One of the support emails posted by Amit I assume states that whether FCC/CE is needed or not, all adams will be shipped with FCC/CE numbers. So I guess we will all get to know at the same time.

  817. Let everyone, you believe DHL is the shipper because thats what we were told. However, please be advised, I was told in an email from the now world-renown Jon that

    “We can not confirm right now if our Shipping partners are going to be DHL at the moment.”

    Ive also some ideas: the term “they are on the boat” may not be literal. I suspect its an attempt to make the cultural equivalent of “the check is in the mail.”

    And Im not fully aware of FCC procedures, but I do find it a bit weird to ship thousands of adams to the US without FCC numbers on them. How are the numbers supposed to be provided? I dont think unpacking, putting a sticky label on the back, and repackaging would make sense. In fact, itd be a logistical nightmare: stolen adams, dropped adams, fingerprints all over your now molested adam, documentation or other items falling out.

    Nevertheless, no matter how great a product is, people are unforgiving, and the crowd is fickle. Its better to tell people everything upfront, than to piece it out bit by bit. Honesty is refreshing. I remain patient and even more understanding than I would normally be after shelling out $600. How? Spending time learning android, seeing what programs are out there that Id like, buying accessories, reading this blog…

  818. +1

    How true! I hate laptops for the same reason. Hope my Adam will be far better than my laptop in all aspects.

  819. Yea, James is right on the nose there. I’m not entirely sure I’ll be able to fully utilize a rooted tablet. I just want the ability to toggle between Honeycomb and Eden, I kinda like Android Marketplace in spite of its lack of tablet support.
    Just curious is all. Thanks for your input though

  820. Gecko, sorry even the Dutch can’t adapt as quick to new environments as certain reptiles. I spent 80% of my time in China and although I write a thousand characters every day (no matter your age, home work never seems to go away), I expect to need translation apps for a long time.

    Wish I could adapt as good as others among us and indeed just plant my feet in the earth to be ‘localized’.

  821. Hi Rohan,
    My Estimated Shippping Date: 15th January 2011 – 22nd January 2011. When can i espect my adam to reach me? Dont care about FCC / CE /UL. please ship mine ASAP.

  822. I guess they have made a policy to ship only with FCC/CE marks. So I guess we are all in the same boat (ship would be more appropriate I guess ;-))

  825. Hi Kromot, even if you didn’t do it now, once you have your Adam you can start enjoying Mexican radio while reading a book or browsing.

    Some of us don’t even remember what an FM radio is as they are permanently glued to their mp3 players, so for them the real mystery will be that music can come over radio waves as well. Surprise 😛

  826. Rohan it is high time you please come out with the facts, otherwise there will be many disgruntled fans!

  827. @Vyjesh it seems that the brave (and stupid?) among us, don’t even wait to see what Eden has to offer but start to jailbreak the day that Adam arrives.

  828. HI,

    I believe it’s time to update tech-specs page about bonus mystery feature 😉 and info about new pre-orders.

    All best

    Zex

  829. I (Rahul) did not say the difference between the original plan and the final implementation are subtle- The radial implementation itself is subtle.

  830. personally, I think that if there are too many items, then a radial implementation would look to cumbersome to navigate. Having tiled homescreens is better (for the general user interface, of course). But on a tabbed browser, I think NI have nailed the right implementation.

  831. My point is- The “button” in the rendered image is much bigger than in the final implementation, so the tabs dont look as radial as they look in the render.

  832. !emergency call!
    Rohan!

    You should make it clear what “Adam has already reached some of its owners. While our friends in US and Europe might have to wait bit more since we are awaiting CE and FCC approval” means.

    Do we NOT ‘ in US and Europe ‘ customers also have to wait for the CE and FCC approvals?

  833. @Greg,

    Nobody from this community outside Notion Ink has worked harder than you (just hope your wife and work haven’t missed you too much). Glad to hear that being recognised and rewarded!

    Phillip

  835. Yeah, when i was reading the blogs about the xoom, they gave me the impression it was a working model

  836. @Rohan,

    I might be preaching to the choir, but here is my vision of Adam 2, for whatever it is worth:
    – Eve should be a smart phone with a dual operating system – phone OS and tablet OS – or an OS that has such a dual mode.
    – Adam should be a brainless (no processor, no memory) tablet with the current size factor.
    – Eve should dock on the back of Adam, with screen outwards. When Adam has an Eve docked on his back, he becomes a tablet, otherwise he is pretty much dumb/useless. Of course, even in tablet mode, all processing happens inside Eve.

    This means that one can use Eve as a full fledged telephone for the typical phone user scenarios (no need of a really large screen of 4 inches; I think 3 inches would suffice, provided that you are able to squeeze all the components in a smaller size factor) and when one needs a tablet, just docks the telephone into Adam, and there you are, you have a full fledged tablet working. In this second scenario, you switch to the tablet OS (or tablet mode of the single OS). Plus, Eve, having its screen outwards, becomes the trackpad on the back of Adam, which was abandoned in the first version of Adam.

    Yes, this design proposition is inspired by what people at Motorola did with Atrix. However, if you look deeper into this proposition (dual OS, real integration between phone and tablet use-cases, position of docked telephone on the back of tablet, no need of an extra docking station when connecting to the tv, keyboard, etc.), I think you might accept this is a better version of that concept and, more importantly, much more in line with Adam.

    @Others

    I suggest we try to take such design concepts as the above and transform them into an open design process, pretty much like an open source project for coding. We could contribute thus to an open notion ink.
    Obviously, if you like the idea and want to contribute, we should somehow organize, split by disciplines (functional design, industrial design, etc.) and define a process for each discipline and for integration.
    Anybody seconding my proposition?

    Marius

  837. @Rohan

    After two days worth of thought, want to ask you this : Why are you allowing Crunchgear to gloat over “things”? Wouldnt it be better if there were better “estimates”?

    PS: doesnt it pain you, your fans are reduced to isheeps at these sites?

  838. Hi all,

    BTW if this is going to a moderator would you please explain why it’s not posted, what do I need to do, I think i’m registered?

    The fcc/ce numbers is a minor delay and imho if you ever want to sell your adam, god knows why!, then it’s a comfort to buyers.

    As for Adam mk2, I really hope NI do not get into the mobile phone arena, at least not for a few years. Let’s get the android tablet kicking ipad’s ass first.

    Regards

    Steve

  839. @Marius – Are you sure it is possible ?

    It might be a considerable engineering challenge to pack all the stuff in a smaller form factor device like Eve.

    I can think of the impact on the thermal performance of the device..There will be other impact as well.

    But nevertheless your idea of open design process is good.

    Regards
    Shyam

  840. I am really pleased to know that a product designed and manufactured by a young team (the youth of India) is getting the recognition we all Indians have been looking for the past decade and is being compared with the best of bests. This decade we should see manymore such products and successes

    Do let me know when the next lot will be open for sale.

    Great design, features and looks too!!!

  845. Guys

    Plz have patience.

    I am sure that the later shipments will be on time. Its the issue with the initial shipments only.

    You must understand that there are so many external factors that it is very difficult to predict and give a correct estimate.

  847. I think he is sending u adam with bigger on-board storage .. remember he said more storage variants coming soon .. that wud be cool !!!

  848. Rohan

    shipped or not shipped, that is the quesiton.

    Please complete below blank.
    US and Europe : [ ]
    others : [ ]

  849. LOL…I liked your style of asking questions…looks like its a homework for Rohan from a class teacher 😀

  850. @Rahim

    how are you ? That was a hilarious comment from you . thanks for making us smile . 🙂

  851. lol,

    I think rohan is currently looping through this function:

    while (adamRelease != true)
    {
    releaseTeaserToPuplic();

    adamPopularity ++ 1;
    adamNegativity — 1;

    adamRelease = isAdamReleased();
    }

    I know this to be true because i have compiled this program and it runs 😀

  852. Hi Jaya,

    I am good. Thanks for asking 🙂

    Don’t know why, but now a days my all comments are going to moderation queue 😦 Is it me alone or somebody else is also facing similar problems?

  853. if no one has posted this already, here is a TIME article regarding tablets ‘iPad rivals’ and disappointingly again, another big publication has skipped ‘adam’. Anyway, few have already commented rather politely regarding this oversee. And the author replied saying he knows about Notion Ink, but is not comfortable until he knows about it shipping, and there he has ranted about Xoom and the likes…. they didnt even have a working model!!! He adds on to say that he has written about the adam elsewhere… I wonder where, a TIME coverage for Notion Ink is due! 🙂

    “http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2042073,00.html”

  855. I cannot be sure that this can be done immediately, with currently available technology. Though, if we are to look again at Motorola’s attempts, they basically have put into Atrix the same processing components that Adam or other tablets run on now. So this might point to the feasibility of such a concept. (Of course, I assume nobody has yet tested Atrix in the docked scenario for hours, to see if it heats up or not. And if they did, they did not tell us yet what happened 🙂 )
    N.B. Please be aware that I am not a hardware engineer

    Obviously, every such “crazy” design concept comes with a lot of challenges such as the one you raised: risk of overheating. But what really impressed me about Rohan and his team was this very ability to come up with detailed design solutions that addresed such challenges. If doing such a thing as docking a phone into a tablet were easy to do, I think every company would have already done it.

    Now, the basic vision in my proposal is to have a universal and mobile personal processing unit embedded in the smallest personal device that we use (telephone) that you can than extend through hot plugging into the other personal computing devices that we need in our daily life:
    – tablet
    – computer
    – media center.

    This means that we don’t need to sychronize, move data around between devices, or carry with us several devices at the same time, etc. Everything digital in our life resides into one single, small (pocketable) device. All other devices are just extensions of this one. Just when wee need that type of use.

    In my vision, I will only have to carry permanently with me Eve, then Adam will be in my backpack, and then at home and at work I will have displays, keyboards, mice.

    To me, that sounds like feasible, reasonable and a major leap at the same time from the current situation.

    Marius

  856. So, Jon here is contradicting Rohan. He is saying nothing has shipped. Rohan is saying they have shipped to people who dont require FCC CE certification. Is this further evidence that the Tablets did ship and went to India only one week ahead of time and everyone else was postponed?

    I find it very hard to believe that Indian news papers haven’t gotten their hands on one and started writing stories left and right on it. I think this now shows that NOTHING has shipped right now. no one is posting routing numbers that they are receiving from India. I smell Fish… or is that Gecko?

  859. @Rahim

    yep, even i faced the “moderation issue” lately . then on, i will skip the very first line and started writing from the second line in the comment text box. it worked 🙂
    i know it sounds really silly, but works for me every time.:)

    My Leave letter –
    Respected sir,

    i am suffering from adam fever .i do not know when it started . kindly grant me leave until i pre-order or see an unboxing video :).

    yours adamfully,
    Jay
    India

  860. Rohan please say something. Getting kicked everywhere about adam shipments. Greg where are you mate? What’s going on??? If anyone has got their adams as has been said can they let us know how it’s going pleeeeeaaaaaaaaaasssssseeeee 😉

  862. Mine are all going to moderation also. I thought it was because I was questioning whether adam had really been sent out or not.

  863. My comments are all going to moderation also.
    I thought it was because I was questioning whether or not adam has really been sent.

  865. VB:
    > So… black and white are not colors ?

    If I ever had any doubts that mammals are overrated, they are gone now. Actually, I never had any, but if I had. You complain when it’s too hot or too cold (what about that warm-blooded stuff? Doesn’t do you much good, does it?) Ok, you’re supposed to have eyelids, so you can’t even keep your eyeballs clean by licking them, and what good do they do you? Crank pseudo-science!

    Can you see with your eyelids closed? No. OK, so if you close your eyelids – make sure this is in a darkened room, to avoid interference – what’s your visual sensation. Black! So, black’s not a color. White, as we know, is the opposite of black, so the same principle applies, but in reverse.

    This is just logic. The actual physics seems to have eluded mammals as well, since it was first explicated by Isaac Newt.

  867. I hope this doesn’t offend anyone. This is written in good humour. Apologies to anyone who cannot take it in the right spirit. This is completely fictitious. None of the events have happened yet. Some of the things written may be far fetched at the moment. If Rohan feels this is not appropriate, he may delete it.

    A senior executive from A*ple (working in the iP*d division) on his Christmas break at Las Vegas walks into CES 2011 on 6th Jan morning forgetting the fact that A*ple weren’t going to be there at CES. He looks for the A*ple booth and doesn’t find it. He tries his iPh*ne 4 to check with his colleagues and guess what due to poor signal quality he is unable to place the call. He takes out his iP*d to check the reasons on the internet, the wifi connection doesn’t work either. He bumps into a floor steward, who tells him that A*ple aren’t there at this year’s CES. Realising his folly and to make amends for the lost time he decides to suss out the competition for iP*d. He visits the numerous tablets on display and thinks for himself, these all resemble pretty much like his iP*d (just with a different OS) with no innovation whatsoever in terms of design and layout. Well! It is going to be another great year of sales for my iP*d I suppose. He feels he had enough of it and just before making his way out through the maze of CES booths, he sees an Indian with a strange looking tablet giving a hands-on demo to the tech bloggers. It looks like no other tablet out there. He is awe struck. He sees the Indian able to open apps at will and displaying three apps at a time. He also sees things, which he is most certain that iP*d will not be able to do. Now he is in a bit of a dilemma. He asks the Indian whether he could have a look at the tablet, asks for his contact details and a few moments later walks off with the tablet. Now he decides he needs to show this thing to Steve and ask him what he thinks. After a very long drive he makes his way to the Cup*rtino Headquarters. He walks into Steve’s office, shows the demo of the tablet and asks him what he thinks. Steve is impressed but doesn’t want to show it. He says this thing is s**t (just like in the old days). The executive makes his way out thinking what is s**t about this tablet.

    A few days later Steve walks into the executive’s office. This how the conversation goes;
    Steve: Have a look, I got a prototype for our new iP*d built. I think this thing will rock.
    Executive: Steve, that is the same tablet I brought to your office the other day.
    Steve: Smiles sheepishly and asks… BTW, who built this thing?
    Executive: This was built by an Indian named RS from Bangalore.
    Steve: Then let’s buy this guy out.
    Executive: It is not going to be easy. He said this is his dream. He is also not alone.
    Steve: Then buy him, his team and his investors as well. We can afford them all. For good measure buy all his patents as well.
    Executive: That sounds like a great idea. It will save us lots of hard work for the future and will make us a trillion $ company by making tiny incremental upgrades every year.
    Executive then realises that this thing runs on Ed*n + Andr*id and they just cannot buy this out and sell it.
    Executive: But Steve, this thing runs on Andr*id made by the dreadful guys at G**gle.
    Steve: WTF. Why didn’t you tell this before. Let us hire the hackers who jailbroke the iPh*ne and iP*d and ask them to port iOS onto this thing. That will stop the hackers jailbreaking every iOS update we make. Once finished get rid of those guys once and for all.
    Executive: Fine. Shall I call the Indian from Bangalore now? I have his mobile number.

    The call is made.

    Steve: Hi R. I am Steve from A*ple. I saw your device you demoed at CES and am very impressed.
    RS: It is an honour to hear from you. I am glad you are impressed.
    Steve: You know, I visited India even before you were born. I was young like you then.
    RS: I read all about you Steve.
    Steve: Well! I wish to make you an offer to buy your tablet and your company out.
    RS: I am sorry Steve. This thing is my dream and I don’t want to sell it.
    Steve: I will give you a billion dollars. I will also name it iAdam. This way your dream can stay alive. Think about it. It is not everyday does a start-up end up being bought out for a billion dollars.
    RS: I am very sorry to disappoint you, but, there is nothing in this world that is going to make me sell my dream.
    Steve slams the phone down.

    Steve: Why the hell can’t we innovate like this guy. He has so many things on his tablet that is not on our iP*d: (1) Pixel Qi screen, (2) Ability to use outdoors, (3) Swivel Camera, (4) Great Speakers, (5) Matte screen, (6) Non-glossy back, (7) Rubberised grip, (8) Great User Interface, (9) Ability to Multitask, (10) Great battery life, (11) So many I/O ports (12) Plays flash videos, and the list is endless…
    Executive interrupts.
    Executive: But Steve, you are the one who always opposes using Flash on our devices. You hate the guys at Ad*be, don’t you?
    Steve: Well! let us leave that out for the moment.

    He is now fuming and doesn’t know what to do. He says to the Executive, “You worked with me for many years. I haven’t seen anything on our iP*d that is on the other tablet. What have we got, a scaled up version of the iPh*ne, with just half its features. What are you doing with iPad2?” The executive replies, “I used our time tested approach of adding a couple of features taken from iPh*ne. I also threw in a few apps for good measure. Just demo this thing like you always do. The media will fall all over you (like they have seen the greatest product ever) and we will sell millions this year as well”. Steve is really upset now. He says “I am totally unimpressed with all this, you are fired!”

    There ends the story.

  868. I cant understand one thing whats the craze with authors or other people using Ipad killer Ipad rival everywhere in articles ? Is it for When you search on google your article lands in the search result.

    Cant they simply say a Tablet or something?

  870. @gaia1960
    tegra 3, 3d display( without glasses!!!) 4G, nfc, some kind of integration of kinect technology… now that will be cool!!!!

  871. @Rama Maganti

    Beautiful short story…i am deeply impressed !

    Who knows…maybe that´s happening or has happened ? 😉

  872. I wanna add that playbook has 7″ while adam has 10″ screen. Depends which screen size suits u more

  873. @Rohan 5% of the time, dim lighting conditions, glares? If you are a photo enthusiast, and by that d5000 i am guessing you might be, i strongly suggest you visit http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/ David Hobby is a pretty amazing photog, and kind of the guy who pushed off camera flash into mainstream, home diy view. Strobes (flash) i very useful in a lot more cases than dim light, including macro. I suggest, if you are a photo enthusiast, you read through at least a couple of his posts or just browse through his blog, i think that 5% may go up to quite a bit more 🙂

  875. This sucks. not what you have written but for Steve it sucks and is a nightmare :). Nice post.

  876. @Rama Maganti

    the climax is superb 🙂 very funny . thanks for making this place lighter against the heavy burden (of-course sweet ) of adam wait:)

  877. Did anyone anywhere here more of the split keyboard that Rohan was talking about in some of his initial posts??

  879. Awesome imagination Rama.

    I guess you can develop the story further into a sequel as well with Adam 2 😉

  881. @Pramod,

    Yes Rohan verbally spoke of it during one of the many CES video interviews, just cant remember which one…i think there are three seperate keyboard selections on adam. The default android keyboard, the boundaryless Notion Ink developed keyboard seen in all the videos, and the split keyboard. If it wasn’t Rohan who spoke to it, ti was one of the Video reviewers who did. Sorry I cant getmore specific than that.

  882. You guys should stop pestering him with the ‘pre-order 2’ requests.
    I’d they rather successfully roll-out ‘pre-order 1’ completely before opening another window.

    The last time they tried to please people, we all know what happened.

  884. @biswajit
    the playbook’s os is simply amazing … eden is cool too, but if u r not a fan ( i am a hardcore fan!!!) of adam , maybe it will feel too complex. when i used to design robots (still in college…) in the beginning my design always felt superior than my teammates’. i guess that is what is happening hr. HP’s slate is probably coming by april alongwith xoom.

    webOS is a fantastic os and whatever little i know of these things, the only one which can kick ipad whr it hurts. no matter how good adam is, it will never even come close to apple sales records. ( i pray i am wrong about the last one though)!!!!
    adam forever!!!!!

  885. +1, Let the orders from Pre Order1 be fulfilled and then Pre Order2 can commence. Please don’t think otherwise, I think Rohan also prefers the same to avoid adding more headaches

  887. I think Rohan answered this question a while ago. Pretty sure Rohan said you never have to launch Eden if you dont want to, you can go with the straight Android home page…remember he showed us that in one of the very first videos released.

  888. I have read in the crunchgear site, Some one named Amit has received his Adam unless he was joking!

  889. I personally do not want a Playbook, but have yet to see any other tablet do what the Playbook did in Slashgears hands-on with Mike Lazardis (near very end of video in link below). Part of problem could be fact that Froyo supposedly does not take advantage of Tegra 2’s multi-threading capabilities. Maybe this is why rom’s from the xda community score 33% higher on quadrant (i.e., they do take advantage of multi-threading … or maybe they just overclock). Numerous issues with Playbook (apps, size, batttery life, etc.), but computing power and build quality are very impressive. Would love to see a video of the adam with 3D ray tracing in one leaf, Quake in another, and 1080p in the third, all running flawlessly. Even if it stutters a little, it would not change my opinion that the adam is the best overall tablet (i.e., might not have the best screen, might not have the highest quadrant score, etc …. but combined nothing else is nearly as good).

  890. This is the comment

    “Amit – January 12th, 2011 at 9:21 am UTC
    Dudes,

    Hi guys,

    I just got a very important package from the mail. Yes its the beloved Adam. I will post up picks soon with the Adam. There is no FCC/CE markings since India does not need it. It is just has Rohan saids.

    This is the best day of my life, the Adam will change everything.

    Regards,

    Amit
    Banglore”

  892. Hey! Cool Send me pix and you get special Thanks on my tablet pc news site! send it to:
    info [at] tabtech.de
    Thanks!!

  893. Replied to the guy in Crunchgear. I have a feeling it’s not true. If it is, good for him.

  895. Honeycomb to be ver 3.0

    IceCream to be ver 2.4

    According to Tomshardware

    “http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Android-Ice-Cream-Android-2.4-Ice-Cream-Froyo-Honeycomb,news-9685.html”

    LeoP

  896. we are really deeply impressed, we are waiting..
    dear Rohan, Dose Adam support Arabic Language since we face this problem with android OS ???
    best regards to your team

  897. Your confusing me, I thought Rohan made it pretty clear last week, that his CURRENT CUSTOM implementation is hybrid of Android 2.2 and 2.3 features combined (thats as close to gingerbread as your going to get), add to that Notion Ink’s custom Eden and processor management customizations, and I think what we are really getting is Notion Inks own version of an Android OS. Sort of like Ubuntu vs. Red hat Linux. His statements and the advent of Genesis and creating his own MAPPING Software (not using Googles), has lead me to believe that Rohan is doing way more than just creating a new tablet platform…I think he is also starting up a direct competition with Google by design and on purpose. Look at what he is doing highly customized releases of Android, opening his own answer to the google Market, creating his own solution to Google Maps and Navigation.looks pretty clear to me he isnt just targetting the hardware side of the business, he is also creating his own version of Android and accomanying apps and distribution.

  899. I am one of those who was lucky to have been able to preorder Adam.

    However reading the above comments, I am disheartened and wish for these features:

    1. Limitation of external USB drive – I have a 1TB WD Portable drive that I was hoping to use with Adam – alas – looks like I can’t use it. BTW, does Adam support NTFS-formatted drives?

    2. Camera: Minor disappointment. IMHO – at the very least a 720p recording-enabled camera should have been builtin to Adam.

    3. Adam should allow multiple USB devices to be plugged in simultaneously – what if I have to use two USB sticks at one time – this is especially not good – since the built-in memory of first-generation Adam is just 8GB. If this is a feature that can be enabled, please allow Adam to be able to hot-plug multiple USB devices.

  900. With regard to point 3, I am guessing there is some gap in communication. If hot-plug multiple devices, does not work, then does it mean if I connect a mouse as shown in one of the videos, I will not be able to connect a USB stick. This does not seem the case. If it is, then it’s definitely a downside but I guess it would be a software limitation which can be updated/hacked. 🙂

  901. I think just as you do. Patience, they are all still in China and will get their FCC numbers before they are shipped. Shipping will then be air, I would guess, to various continents and radiate out from there to eagerly waiting customers. This of course excludes Greg’s shipment which may well be on it’s way. However, even that remains to be seen. The one thing we can count on is that Greg will certainly know when the “eagle lands”. Perhaps just a quick note from him saying “Houston, we have touchdown” video to follow.

  904. That functionality is how the panel system currently work. In panel mode, the three displayed panels are only active doing the specific tasks they showing (no background efforts). If you want them to do their full functionality you select the one of the three that are showing and it becomes full screen, using more cpu resources than when its in the panel view…that is part of the customization effort that notion ink created that saves battery power. also all the other panels that you open, but are not active, are in a frozen state not using any resources. So NI has created a custom implementation of (currently) two Andriod versions 2.2 and 2.3 comnbined in to one and further customized hardware optimizations into that remem,ber 2.2 and 2.3 were designed for phone devices not tablets, so NI altered/customized their release to accomodate a table architecture. Honeycomb 3.0 delivers many of the customizations needed in Android for tablet devices, that NI had to create for themselves from past android releases.

  905. I apologize, as I am sure this has been answered a million times over, but the ADAM is capable of video chat (such as skype), correct?

  907. Reading this blog entry, brought back some bittersweet feelings. I’m very happy for all of you who have recieved or are about to recieve your Adam. Congrat Rohan, and NI team because this is a big milestone for you guys. Yet, I believe not only for me, it’s a sad time for those of us who wanted to pre-order but for whatever reason didn’t get a chance to do so. I won’t get into that, it is water under the bridge.

    What is a bit unsettling is that there was no “REAL” news coming out of CES maybe it’s from the lack of the CE and FCC approvals. Sure we got some promo shots and hands-on coverage which was great. Personally, this has gotten me even more excited about the device, but there was NO announcement as to future distribution of the device. I think this information is very important to know, at least for me. From what I’ve read there will be even more tablets coming out for MWC or WMC the mobile conference. Which means more competition. The fact is that Adam will be competing against what is and will be out there in the market, no matter how unique it is. When people go out to buy or decide to order they’ll be categorizing this as on the go computing, or a replacement for a netbook/portable notebook. I love Adam, but as a tech geek I can’t deny I’m curious as to what is coming out soon, I thought the Asus slide table looked very sweet and I think that’ll be out this month.

    I maybe wrong, and perhaps you’d go to the extreme in saying that you don’t care if you lose some of your fans, but this two month window is crucial for you guys and if you miss the mark you can get trampled by the big boys with deep pockets and more importantly the greater market wisdom.

    I’m pushing for you Notion Ink, and I’ll hold out for you a bit longer! I want Adam more than ever, but there is interesting competition heading our way!

  909. @LeoP Interesting.

    I wonder if Honeycomb (3.0) will come out before or after IceCream (2.4).
    If it is after then it will be a while (9 months?) before Motorolo delivers the Xoom. 😆

  911. Since the shipment of Adams is near or already started, i think it would be great to hear what can we expect from Adam- I mean What are the apps that they come with and what apps will come with software updates.

    I am interested in hearing about the mystery feature: FM radio and also GPS (whether it would come with Maps or do we have to buy the maps from a 3rd party.

    I don’t believe Rohan and Co gave us all the news he wanted to give us from CES and maybe its time for that now!

  912. I believe the only news we’ll receive is from Greg.

    After all, Rohan claimed he personally sent one to Greg, so who knows where the first batch from China with the FCC CE stickers are.

    From beautiful Contra Costa County in CA.

    LeoP

  913. @bsmdbt It makes me wonder how Eden deals with real background tasks that we wish to be permanently running (such as checking the numerous email-accounts that Adam supports) or with apps such as playing music that you want to permanently running even when you do not have the leaf open on your screen.

  917. @AlbertWertz

    Mine, Mine, Mine

    Check this link for where it might be.
    “https://www.dropbox.com/photos/”

  919. Very nice snap shots considering it’s from a 10.1″ tablet. I would like to see some video conferencing videos.

  921. But what I dont get is, Im in Afghanistan. Im sure an adam can be shipped to me here. I even went to DHL here (2 minute walk). Id do an unboxing vid, broadcast, etc too. But when I emailed to inquire about it, Jon replied that they were not even sure DHL was their shipping partner. Im not mad or salty, heck, Im in the 15-22 Jan group.

    I just sent a 2 pound box to Bulgaria from here and it took 4 days.

  922. Hi everybody,
    Is there a french interface for french user?
    And so when can we order adam?And finally is it sell only on website http://www.notinink.com or also in supermarket?
    Thks a lot for your answer.

  924. what would Notion Ink be doing on other fronts?

    How about creating a handheld version that would enable a user to take and make calls? This device could be similar to volume controls some mp3 players have midway between the device and headphones. Of course Notion Ink’s would be more advanced and feature rich!

  925. @AlbertWertz

    Try this link. “http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/17040014/1/Public?h=b51a5f”

  926. Curious Question: As per Rohan, the radio will be enabled later on with a software update, so how will FCC certify if the radio is there but not working at this moment?

  927. Hi Rohan,

    I am bit late joining this Adam euphora, but must say that I am really impressed seeing the videos of the Adam. More so I am impressed with you going out there trying to create your own path to success

    May be immaterial to you but would just like to say to you that we are a country of World Class Service providers like infy , tcs, etc etc……

    However, when it comes to products , the services provided by us for our own product is sometimes NOT worthy to mention. Though the product matters most but I feel down the lane it’s the service which decides a company’s brand

    Kindly think about service as Priority…..

    I heard a quote sometimes back :
    “Our parents used to live in a world whereTIME was spent to save MONEY, but today we live in a world where MONEY is spent to save TIME….. ” how relevant !

    So just to emphasize that though we are good at our maths, physics and science as such (that is proved by the constant involvement of Indians in the technological field) some how we need to evolve more in our service for our own product. Specially in India where we are extremely busy providing service to other countries…….. we don’t have time……

    Kindly put sincere effort to provide good service……… and show the world that here is a company which is there to last for ages to come ……….

    Must say what impressed me about you personally is that I feel you are sincere, atleast you are looking into blogs and feeling the pulse of the people and trying to give them an update everytime…. Updates are important so don’t ignore them in your service process……..

    Looking forward to get an ADAM whenever available

    Hope you succeed, will wait and watch, and will be happy if 20 years down the lane I am able to say my kins that you know I am a follower of this company since its inception :)) – considering product launch as inception 🙂

    unfortunately I am a mainframe application developer , otherwise would have definitely liked to work with you all because I feel you have passion and I like such people……

    May God be with you……….

    Yours
    ADAM Follower 🙂

    PS: Any body hurt by any of my comments please note that it’s not intentional and purely co-incidental

  928. Yes Suresh, still so much we don’t know……At this point to heck with surprises. Let us have a full published fac sheet on Adam. How it is equipped. About this FM radio does it require head phones plugged in for a antenna? What bands does it tune? Is the Adam capable of cellular phone calls? ( I emailed Notion Ink on the phone subject with no reply) Can it really send and receive sms messages. In one interview with crunch gear I thought I heard Rohan say it could. This list goes on. With the first Adams supposedly in the hands of followers (No one his shown proof of this on this blog). It seems it is time for a full disclosure. At least on the device itself. Speculation can be fun for a while, but many of us have put our hard cash out there for Adam.
    Give us an Email address where questions can be asked. And answered. I heard some say they have received answers and others say they have been ignored. If there is not an answer then tell us there isn’t. It is understandable that Notion Ink may not know when they may start taking orders again. Give the faithful a small bit of insight,it will do a lot to tamp down the anxiety that tends to permeate this blog. Personally I’m making every effort to be patient. I’m fortunate enough to have a pre order and very thankful for that. I love the concept of Adam and Notion Ink. Yet, customer service and support is very important in getting Notion Ink started on solid ground.

    It is about building and making the dream real. We all know Notion Ink has worked very hard to get this far. To accomplish it’s dream, it has much hard work yet to do. I commend them in most every facet of their work.

    To all All waiting for Adam… Sometimes it is the squeaky wheel that get the grease. Sometimes the squeaky wheel is ignored and it falls off. Customers and potential customers are Notion Inks squeaky wheel. May they all be well greased!

  930. Hi Greg,
    is it there yet?
    Did you get any sleep at all since the mail from Rohan?

    What will be your very best moment? Receiving the box in your hands, taking it out of the box, , holding Adam for the first, the first boot, seeing the colors oof PQ screen, hearing Adam’s sound, discovering Eden and apps, or finding out The Extra…?
    What’s the first you’ll do with your Adam(s), and in what kinda setting?

    Let’s hear?!

  931. The info doesn’t need to be via the blog post, but it could be via the update on the website. There was a lot of positive vibe generated at the CES and lot of people will not come to the blog, but rather go to the official website. If the website is updated, that would be enough!

  933. Suresh, was Rohan’s radio enabled by software update statement in an interview? If so which one? I still have a crazy hunch the radio is more then then meets the eye.

  936. I believe its in the Crunchgear video! When he revealed the mystery feature as Radio!

  937. So I take it by your comment that anyone that wants to jailbreak a device is stupid. I wonder how the countless hard working developers/hackers over at xda.developers or even CyanogenMod feel about that sort of statement.
    Funny, but if you read the thread, Rohan does seem to be helping in what little way he can (without breaching any agreement) by providing the nVFlash file. So I guess by your statement does Rohan also fall into that category for helping out the development community.

  938. Adam must be available in the mass market if going to be a success. No matter how good a product, if unavailable off the shelf or easily ordered online, it is doomed.
    The ultimate fate of any product depends on its availability, reliability and after sales support.
    Notion ink must understand this basic fact.

  939. Yes, and Greg will you have the camera running as the delivery man comes up the walk with your new Adam. I’m guessing it’s about a ten to 12 hour drive to your home in Utah. I would almost volunteer to hold the camera while you open the package!!!

    Hey dude make a great show of it. This blog is dying for more info then we are likely to get until you post all your findings. Your dedication to Notion Ink and Adam his put you in a special place. I know you will enjoy every moment of it!!

  940. Yeah, that was a Tweaker, we never ever heard about afterwards 😉

    Waiting to order my Adam in the Leiden area (in the middle of the big cities).

  941. Trying to show my PS CS4 version of the photo that was taken by Rohan with the adam.

    Hopefully this can be seen without having to sign in the web site.

    “https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/img_20081231_172159_takenfromadamcamera1.jpg?w=b618c713”

  942. +100 That is where it needs to go. Just a note here telling us on the blog that it is posted there.

    We may not get our wish in that regard, The next best thing (or likely the best thing} may be through Greg and his reports here and on the web site he created. I’m thinking of putting most of my informational eggs in Greg’s basket.

  943. Nobody has even got shipping details. After reading All posts and searching Net, I am concluding. And as NI email says all models will only ships after fcc,CE approval, It means there is still time for an unboxing video. There will lot of sleepless nights for us yet to come waiting for ADAM.

  944. Awesome picture even if it might be photo shopped!!!! You get the feeling your Adam just might be in that stack!!!!

  948. Hey Rohan…
    You promised in Introducing Eden – VII The Leaves post that at CES you would give some information on your partners and the plan and Pre-Order 2 status…
    Well we are still dying here to Know More on the Pre-Order 2 status…
    Please don’t go back on your promise…

  950. Hey Greg… Congratulations on being one of the first few to own the wonderful work of art gadget… 🙂
    Just waiting for the Pre-Order 2 now… 😦

  952. Stupid weblinks….

    I think it was here.

    “https://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/fiat-lux/”

  957. I’m not begging Greg to post videos, just wishing him an awesome time.
    Hoping that the package may meet all of his expectations.
    If Adam meets his expectations, it sure will meet mine later on.

    This doesn’t get Rohan of the hook, and to come up with more info in a new posting 😛

  958. Maybe that’s the reason for no one stepping forward with his/her Adam. Afraid of an army of stalkers.

  959. Another nice quote:
    “Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”
    – Jim Rohn

  961. Wally,
    Please don’t forget about the work Tim and others
    are doing over at:
    “http://nifaq.pbworks.com/w/page/34159353/NI-FAQ-Front-Page”

  962. Wow, 14th already ? Is it Indian time?

    My shipping’s scheduled to be Jan 15 – 22. I wonder NI ships to Canada w/o an FCC label.

  963. No need to beg Greg. He has been promising videos, tests, un boxing, and user reports over and over. He for all his efforts has been given special recognition by Rohan himself. I won’t beg him, but will surely encourage him to to do the things he said he will do. I think he loves the whole process as well.

    I also don’t, as you said, think this should not get Rohan off the hook. He is the one receiving our faith, and money and needs to truly come forward with more information especially about the device. In the mean time Greg may very well end up being our best option for information. I’m 100% sure does not mind and is actually thrilled with idea. I therefore “cheer him on ” in that endeavor.

  966. yeah, i’m waiting for the next daily half truth or the next delay info.

    if i do the same with paying my money i get a big problem 😉

    sorry folks, i believe there is no adam in our hands before february.

  968. @Karen, Good point. “If Adam meets his expectations, it sure will meet mine later on.”
    It seems we are more lucky than Greg cos we will know more about adam before we get it and less sleepless night then greg. I think now and then greg wakeup middle of night running towards door as if DHL guys are outside and realise shit its a dream.. Lol.

  969. You could be right on this. Since mine is not slated till February your very right in my instance. Perhaps Greg will be the exception. I do sincerely pray his comes early and he posts about it. If not and we all get ours at the same time then I shall post a video as well.

  970. for those developers out there, I have an App idea that would work perfect on the adam, could charge $5 a piece for it and every student in the world would buy it. They would be willing to pay the $5 bucks a piece because they would save hundreds by using this app. Please contact me if you are interested. This app is a flashcard app. I have used every single flashcard app out there for Apple and Android and have found nothing that meets my needs as a professional student (i am in med school now and have been using half ass apps to get by). I know what has made others fail and what most people want in an app like this. Please let me know if you are interested in talking about this. This could even get so popular that schools would recommend it to their students as study aids. Flashcard apps allow you to make cards faster and study them faster. Saved me tons of time in medschool and saved me money. I spend hundreds on cards a pens, plus time making these in undergrad. send me an e-mail @ albert.wertz@ rockyvistauniversity.org (just delete space between @ and school name)

  971. This sounds good -I hope one of the developers jumps on this…

    I’m interested in trying out one of the Android flashcard apps once I get my Adam -could you recommend one above the others that are already out there?

  972. Then would I buy an adam when its just a screen for Eve. I will get eve and standard screen to dock. Are we throwing adam out (no way 😦 )

  973. Congratulations. The reviews so far have all been great! Can’t wait for Adam’s US debute. Hopefully we will get a chance to pre-order it before it hit the market…..

    Best of luck with the approval processes.

  974. There is no definite answer to is black and white as being colors. It all depends on what one is referring to.

    see “http://www.colormatters.com/vis_bk_white.html” for examples.

  975. Okay good Notion Ink blog posters and readers.

    I must take a break from all this. I’ll be having lunch and tending to business that this blog and Adam is causing me to over look. Which is really my own fault for allowing this 10 inch magical device to rule my world. Obsession is not always good. One sad and closing thought. On Dec.17,2010 My bank and Visa card sent Notion Ink almost 500 dollars for this Adam device. My delivery date is stated as February. I have spent many valuable hours on this blog, on different forums, searching, researching, looking everywhere for more details about Adam. More assurance that this mystical device will be and do what I have hoped for. Now in the world I have known up until now money is not taken from ones account until the item is shipped. The need to have Adam and be one of the early adopters has over ruled all common sense. Actually Adam is not mystical just our ideas about it. I do pray it will all work out fine in the end. This just tells me one thing. Rohan, you are the Pied Piper, we have followed your dream and song. You have led us to places we never thought we would go. Deliver us from our Anxiety and doubt. Play us the sweet melody of satisfaction. Bring forth our Damn Adams!!!!

  976. I think I either saw one picture of it, or it may have been a quick glimpse of a video, this was a little ways back …maybe one of the first videos.

  977. You mean the one that has a photo of a rechargeable cat.
    “http://nifaq.pbworks.com/w/page/34160809/2d-%E2%80%93-Power-and-Battery”
    hmmm I wonder where I can get one of those for my Adam. it doesn’t say in the faq.

  978. Seriously. Rohan I will promise you my first child as collateral if you would ship my adam today.

  979. I dont think there should be a “pre-order2”, just go to production and release the thing… I thought it was ready to go, except that the PQi folks cant keep up with the demand? If thats the case they should concentrate on fixing the PQi vendor and then go stright to full production. it wouldnt make sense to do a pre-order 2

  982. Yes, and i offer you one more encouraging quote:
    “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”
    – Thomas Edison

    Stay with NI and with us, Wally!

  985. @Wally west,
    “I must take a break from all this” you should.
    “Play us the sweet melody of satisfaction” Rohan please play for wally.
    “We rule our world” This is has to be our priority.
    “Bring forth our Damn Adams” Take a deep breath in, hold for a moment and release slowly.

  986. He has to juggle his family life, his work and, now Adam and us. Most people have some problem handling with the first two. I started to feel sorry for Greg 😀

  987. @All Dunno If it’s posted here or not:)… Just read this on notionaddicts.com. Iwas wondering why Rohan has posted NikonD5000 pic in this post. Well if you check the text associated with the pic, It reads as “AnandTech’s review’s Camera” :). Means Review of Anandtech is coming soon too . Did anyone guess it here in this blog?

  988. saw that on wednesday night… keeping an eye on anandtech since then
    F5…F5…F5….

  989. Seems apple is following this blog 🙂 . Solar powered devices patent has also gone to apple
    “http://www.slashgear.com/apple-awarded-patent-for-solar-powered-devices-13126283/”

  990. My mistake seems it was filed in the first quarter of 2009. But seems next time whe we speculate on possible features of adam 2, public places may not be a good place to discuss it 😉

  991. I would be willing to make it, but it would have to be free with ads. I don’t believe in charging for applications, but I would support putting a small ad in a card selector pane, under the scrollable area. The Android community is very interesting to developers. We have found that we make more by putting ads in applications then charging money.

  993. 1
    This makes a hell of a lot more sense than a second Pre-Order. If Adam is already shipped to the peoplw who preordered then it means itsbeen released. Which in turn means that Adam would be in production, right? The only thing that would stop it is if PQi were to have a shortage of their displays. Everyone remembers what Rohan said: he wants to start LCD and PQi orders at the same time.

  995. I was under the impression that was why the leaf paradigm was implemented?

  996. Indeed, but they also previously indicated that there would be no access to the Android Marketplace, which to me suggests running any Android native software (excluding third-party stores, which I am unable to determine from the comment the usability of).

    I’m sure that functionality is intended of course, but it’d be incredibly disappointing for it to be absent is what I guess I’m getting at, especially since the fundamental API that would make it function really wouldn’t be too much of a coding obstacle. 😛

    Ultimately, I guess it’s more of a side-note in the “Don’t forget!” column. 😉

  997. Ha Ha Ha!!!

    Good one. So it wasn’t shipped, but tri-cycled 😉 That explains the delay.

    Hope it wasn’t re-cycled.

  998. I’ve never fully understood the need to wait until they have more Pixel Qi screens before they re-open orders if they can now supply the LCD models as Rohan alluded to at CES. I’ll give Rohan the benefit of the doubt because I don’t know his plan, but an explanation would be great. I would even settle for a ball-park guess as to when orders might proceed. It would be better than me checking this website an embarrassingly number of times each day just to get any bit of information I can.

  1001. I’m a little bit disappointed with the following video about iOS 4.3.
    Isn’t it familiar?
    The way the go through the opened apps, and the way the OS let you know that you are reaching the last opened app.
    (Sarcasm mode on) Does it look familiar? Do they know the word plagiarism?

  1002. Of course im just kidding. I don’t have kids first off. To much anticipation waiting. I wont receive mine until proly mid febuary. Sigh I’ll be sure to post lots o pics and vids when I do.

  1004. Sorry that was lame, i really like NI, Adam, Rohan etc. but this is pure fanaticism and unrealistic. Ipad is not Sh** its very good, just Adam is better at most things.
    Cmon we do not need to berate the competition we will do ‘the talking’ as they say ‘on the pitch’.

  1007. Don´t worry Dennis….you know indian guys are very special as we have learnt from several bollywood films !

    Everything is extremely coloured and they are dancing and celebrating for several days like Sharuk Khan !

    Now…let them dance and celebrate the success at CES and we will have our deliver as soon as they have finished 😉

  1009. @Rohan,

    It would be nice to hear something about shipping dates for US/UK or FCC/CE updates 😦

  1010. @Biswajit saha

    Thanks for the breathing advice…. Hope you caught my hint of satire. If Notion Ink can rule just our little corner of the world many will be well pleased.

  1011. @DarkWinterNights

    i believe that we get access the the Market when Honeycomb comes out. Google apparently does not to want to give pure tablets access to the phone app market until they have a version of Android that is tuned for tablets.

    It will be very easy to side-load apk’s until that time (just get them from a reliable source or store).

  1012. @ Karen thank you very much… I’ve have been around in some fashion for about a year. I’m solidly behind Notion Ink for the duration. I love where Rohan and Team want to go with Adam and the future. Now and then I’m prone to project a little satire, but it is well intentioned and my heart is with all Notion Inkers….

  1014. @cx650t I would be remiss to neglet to mention the Notion Ink Fac page“http://nifaq.pbworks.com/w/page/34159353/NI-FAQ-Front-Page”

    They have done a load of work on that project and my hat is off to all that have contributed there. I have visited many times and will continue to do so. Rohan and Notion Ink have a great group of people behind them. I spend time with Notion Addicts as well and many thanks to them also. There many who deserve acknowledgment and I’m hopeful that all will be properly rewarded!!

  1015. @twospirits I do not say that anybody that wants to jailbreak a device is stupid, we have lots of software available because brave people took the effort to jailbreak and I even hope that xda-developers will help in creating something that gives Adam users access to the Market.

    The ‘stupid’ remark was purposefully made with a question-mark behind it. One of the reasons why Adam is so attractive, is because of the multi-tasking of Eden. When you jailbreak Adam it seems to me that you lose that ( I may be wrong here). So you might lose more then you win.

    By the way: I read the thread and noticed indeed Rohan’s comments. Also noticed that no solution was given by him but the fact that he replied shows his commitment to the dev community. Impressive for a CEO of a device manufacturer, but maybe due to his IIT background he feels comfortable with it.

  1017. Jason, I’m just curious how much you would need to charge for your apps to offset the potential ad revenue. I have upgraded to the paid versions all of the apps that I find useful… and NEVER use or keep the ones that waste real estate with infuriating ads that are too small to read and block what I want to read…. I would urge you to reconsider your business model if you have any confidence in the merit and/or utility of your apps. Offer an ad-supported demo, but give people the option to upgrade?

  1018. Gecko, are you fully back from winter hibernation?
    You seem to move a lot and it is only January.

    (I prefer life with gecko’s though, they have this long tongue that can suddenly do incredible things. Amazing to watch, and don’t overlook the colorful expressions some of them have :))

  1019. Here’s the body of the reply I received when I asked about shipping date. My order status says 15th Jan – 22nd Jan.

    “Greetings from the Notion Ink Support Team!

    We do not have a specific date when the Adam would be shipped to you. Also,
    we should be able to provide you with the tracking number and concerned
    carrier once we have this information.

    The Adam Box would come with the Adam device itself, universal charger,
    system manual and a screen protector. We will be happy to assist you further
    if you have any other queries.

    Thank you for your continued support to Notion Ink!

    Warm Regards
    Jon
    Notion Ink Support Team”

  1020. Im in the same boat! im checking a couple of times a day for an update and to see if my order was sent and Nada! then Rohan says they will be delays! SO Adam will not be shipped on the 15th????????

  1021. I’ve got the same order status dates. Let’s Jon’s response means “We do not have a specific date when the Adam would be shipped to you [between 15th Jan – 22nd Jan.]”.

  1023. Although I haven’t pre-ordered, this message looks verrrryyyy familiar.
    I think I have seen this response/answer before.

    Can somebody back me up on this one?

    T.I.A.

    Daryl.

  1024. @LeoP

    It is a bad web-link. Put the file you wish to share in your public file in dropbox. Then right click on the file and there is an option to “copy public link” click on that and it will give you an option copy to clipboard.

    “http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9867567/How%20to%20use%20the%20Public%20folder.rtf”

    Should look like that, which is the official instructions on how to use the public file in dropbox.

  1027. studydroid is one of the best out right now and it is free…. but glitchy. Their support is poor. They almost never update.

  1028. Also both the image file names have years (assume) 2008 and 2009 in them. Any clue why?

  1030. It would be good if Rohan or someone else from NI clarifies as to what is going around with shipping for countries where FCC and EC clearance is not required.

  1031. I know it’s been talking about here a little but why do tablets in general not come with and offer better support of stylus with great Intergrated hand writing software?

    Is it because Steve Jobs said you have it wrong if you need a stylus? Don’t get me wrong I LOVE touch screens and the general direction of moving away from PC’s to tablets. However one of the shortcomings of all tablets, even our favorite (Adam), is the lack of pen type entry.

    As an IT project manager I spend many hours every day in meetings where I need to take notes.

    I have tried several note taking apps but none of them seem to make the cut. I was hoping that Adam was going to change this and who knows maybe they will. I see our friend Greg is goof to let us know if the office suite will support hand writing.

    Note taking just seems like a problem that would have been solved by tablet makers, but to date it just seems everyone is coming up short. I am sure many professionals and students would love this.

    Is it because of technical challenges?

    What are others thoughts on pen style note taking on tablets?

    PS – really hoping my Adam ships berween the 15 – 22nd

  1032. I think it would be wise to release Adam LCD version for orders. Waiting for pixel qi will delay penetration of Adam into market when it has an edge with it’s camera and other superlative features + UI. This in comparison to the runaway popular iPad. once iPad 2 comes it will only get more difficult for people sitting on the fence to go for non-iPad tablets. It will have what its missing for now – camera and maybe even a port.
    NI should get aggressive and get Adam in as many hands as possible.

  1033. That is a definite possibility! 🙂 (He can always ask for our support to make a case for him!)

  1034. I am sort of new here, but who is Greg and why does he get an Adam before anyone else? I have seen his comments and he seems like a normal customer like everyone else.

  1037. Thanks for the welcome – I’m in and out. Had my attention captured when my mother had to have emergency surgery, but things are doing better on that score. Amazon lists at least one DIY surgical kit:
    “http://www.amazon.com/Laparoscopic-Gastric-Bypass-DYNJS0303-Each/dp/B000WCW4FK/ref=tag_stp_s2_edpp_url” – but this wasn’t the right type of surgery. If they’d had a mitral-valve repair kit, we could have done it ourselves, and saved a lot of trouble.

  1038. Greg : (1) is from Utah, (2) has guns, and most importantly (3) is Greg. If you don’t know what that means, than you must be new here, a situation you can remedy by doing a little archeological work (in Gregology) and, especially, by sticking around a bit.

    If you’re investigations show that Greg is not Greg, that would be interesting, because some of my early ones came to exactly that conclusion, and Greg was forced to change avatars as a result.

  1039. Sorry for the typos everyone – just blame the iPhone which I won’t be using anymore for blog reading once my Adam shows up

    Greg, didn’t mean to call you a goof :o)

  1041. I don’t think styluses work that well for capacitive touch screens do they? It seems like your if you rest your palm on the tablet it would mess up the writing with the stylus.

  1042. @wally – this will interest you. some responses from NI cust service team ‘Jon’ (the first one specifically:

    1. Can the Adam be used as a phone since we are going to be inserting a SIM card in it (with a bluetooth headset attached to it) – No.

    2. Will the micro SD card slot be able to read micro SDHC flash cards – from what i have read this may not be compatible – Yes the Adam is able to read micro SDHC cards.

    3. there are a lot of rumours on the external storage capacity – for a USB hard disk will ADam be able to work with a 500GB or a 1Tb hard disk. Are there any limitations to this size? We are not too sure if a HD of that size would show up on the device and work.

  1043. Please Rohan!

    We suffered from adamania.
    We do not have that much time left.

    show a significant reduction in blood pressure
    —–^———-^—————^————————-^—————————– – – –

    p .. pl . e . a ..se … ship adam soon….

  1044. I see. I have been reading the blog posts for about a year but never really read the comments until I pre ordered.

    Anyways, why does he get his Adam earlier than everyone else in the US/Europe?

  1045. I agree, they all have that problem. I wish someone creative like Rohan could solve this issue

  1047. Ah, the answer is in the blog comments. His full name is “Evil Greg,” and he is the embodiment of everything malevolent.

    No, no, I mean he’s been the most selfless, tireless, not to say demented Adam pusher the world has ever known. He is all over every comment section of every blog that mentions Adam. You can’t avoid him. He’s even in your breakfast cereal.

    He’s probably very bored. Did I mention he lives in Utah?

  1049. So many requests for his videos in “notioninkfan.com”. I think Greg has to quit his day job.

  1050. New Ipad and Iphone operating system, IOS4.0

    “http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20028498-1.html”

  1051. Yeah, IMHO and tablet that’s coming out before and after the feminine hygiene product came out has been more capable than any of it’s offerings.

    The edge that the fruit has is purely that it is “fashionable” and supposedly the most idiot-proof, but most people flock to it because it’s the “in-thing”. Hell, I was showing a coworker my phone as they were asking about a Youtube downloader (I had Tubemate installed), and suddenly, out of nowhere, some other employee just jumps in and says it’s another crapplehone wannabe (obviously I modified the wording =P).

    I mean, what the hell? People are THAT brainwashed. I was caught offguard about the comment, otherwise I would have assailed him with the features we have that he doesn’t.

  1052. Rohan, I honestly think Notion Ink Tech Specs “Bonus mystery feature 😉
    ” should be updated with FM Radio !! I guess to keep the official site more dynamic to reflect the latest info there will help everyone a lot!!
    Still waithing for my Adam and looking forward for the next preorder to order more!!

  1053. Hi,
    Came across a recent article in IEEE Spectrum org. Not sure if this already posted (if posted, excuse me for the repeat).

    “http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/the-best-tablets-of-ces”

    -Murali

  1054. Sigh! Bollywood song-and-dance sequences tend to be a bit long, though. So, we just have to wait until Rohan and the others at NI are done with their bump and grind routines with doe eyed damsels trilling away at their side. But, the air conditioning is good and it is pleasantly dark here in this blog, so until the action happens, we can all just…snooze. Wake me up when its February, when our hero, Adam, arrives from phoren, with bell-bottom pants and large sunglasses and a broad buckled belt that will put George Bush to shame.

  1055. Hello subs,

    Thanks for the information. Even though I think the hardware is on board for a phone it does make sense that Notion Ink won’t implement it because they, like Apple and Motorola will likely want you to buy the phone they plan on creating. If the hardware “Radio” is there then it would be likely that someone at XDA would hack in to the software and implement the cellular phone calls. Even then in USA you would have to have AT@t accept it as a phone. For me and others that is a disappointment as we had hoped Adam would maintain it’s non proprietary stance and keep Adam totally open and unlocked to be used to it’s complete potential. The issue with i Tb hard disk is a non starter for me personaly as I look at Adam as a more of a portable device. Again thanks fir the update.

  1056. So, here’s what’s going to happen. Greg might receive a copy of the Adam soon and he will be able, I hope, to give us a very detailed walk thru of Adam. This is probably more credible than NI themselves doing it, given the shellacking they got from Crunchgear and others. Also, this time it will be with audio, with Greg providing commentary in his impeccable Utah accent. This show will last a couple of weeks, during which time Greg puts his family life at considerable risk while Rohan gets to catch up on food and sleep.

    Meanwhile, back at the FCC office, our energetic bureaucrats are back from Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years breaks, not to mention several episodes of crippling snow, and are warming up to the task of assembling several letters and numbers for NI. This will happen in late January. Notion Ink breathes a final sigh of relief (for this season) and begins to harrass their suppliers in China who are, by this time, busy assembling the iPad2 and the new version of the Galaxy Tab. They have no time for our friends at Notion Ink. However, they make some time on an afternoon in early February and run the final labels off. DHL, still miffed that the expected delivery in January didn’t happen, arranges for the loot to be shipped to various parts of the world after hemming and hawing for a couple of weeks.

    It is mid February, and one day, coming home from work, the wife tells me that a DHL package has arrived. About time, I mutter, feigning nonchalance.

    So, that’s really my expectation. I am happy to be proved wrong about the alacrity of our friends at the FCC and the CE. Meanwhile, there will be movies from Greg to watch on his new YouTube site, Mrs. Greg permitting.

  1058. Well, I just hope they ship adam by Jan this year. They really are running out of attention diverting options.

  1059. Well its official. NI has had my 600 dead presidents for a month now. All I want is an FCC update and my Tracking number. Im tired of constantly looking at this computer screen, I’d rather be looking at my PQ Adam sceen 😉 Rohan if you hear me, Im patiently waiting….zzzzzzzzzzzz!

  1060. I am tired of hitting F5 in anticipation of some update… Please let me know what is happening..

  1063. Actually it is Icecream Sandwich to avoid confusion with FroYo…. I know it sounds ridiculous, but Google are actually considering this nomenclature 🙂

  1064. Totally with you on that. Was counting on the Adam to be three things for me:
    1. a eBook reader (obviously … i guess!!!)
    2. a Notepad (essential for me)
    3. a cellphone

    Well, am hoping the XDA folks do this for us.

  1065. Totally with you on that. Was counting on the Adam to be three things for me:
    1. a eBook reader (obviously … i guess!!!)
    2. a Notepad (essential for me)
    3. a cellphone (may not be the most portable one though!)

    Well, am hoping the XDA folks do this for us.

  1066. Adams have been sent to non-European and non-American countries? No video from those family? I am waiting here……………………..

  1067. I haven’t received any update. I am in Australia and I am being told “We do not have a specific date when the Adam would be shipped to you.”

  1071. If your story carries up till end Jan, the chinese will be off for atleast 2 weeks on their new year holidays. Then you can push that date to Feb & anything on Feb to March… 🙂

  1072. My ADAM is supposed to ship sometime next week. Why do I get the feeling that this is
    Punxsutawney Phil and he’s seen his shadow meaning it will be 6 more weeks of “Winter”?
    😉

  1073. Wally, for you (and all who are waitin) here’s one of my favourites:

    “http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4g71r_the-rolling-stones-i-can-t-get-no-s_music”

    Cheers

  1074. still no updates…
    I’m tired, sigh.

    Is Rohan scum?
    Is this a kind of Indian business practices?

    I wouldn’t order anything from NotionInk any more.

  1075. i’m tired of waiting, given half infos without facts, posted pictures and always a teaser with warm regards.

    there is no date for final confirmation, there is no specific shipping date, there is no concerned carrier (why i pay 50$ for DHL handling to germany)?

    wth, rohan opens the door for opening-ceremony-party and lets wait all people at the cloakroom.

  1076. @toque

    Please cool down.

    i can understand your frustration . But Rohan will never disappoint us .

    Please understand how many external factors could have influenced the delay .
    i know Rohan is working for ironing out those issues to make smooth delivery and then come back to us with a new post explaining it in details .
    Long live adam and NI .

    Thanks rohan and Team NI for all the hardwork .

  1077. Getting through FCC can be a nightmare, funding a startup also. Notion Ink will need more than a couple of million dollars to get the engine running. Part of it is preordering, but somebody has to pay for salaries, ramp up etc. and for more than a year now. Every day delay is weakening NI very much. I believe if they cannot ship a lot in the next 6 weeks and we begin to withdraw our funds, it will become a very very dangerous situation for the business. Time is really critical.

  1078. How fitting and to top it off # 1 song the year I graduated high school. Damn I’m old!

  1079. Can the mystery feature really be a radio? it doesn’t fit in with any of the hints.

  1080. @Wally, everybody feel the same way you do and we all are egar to learn more (if you ask greg personally you see he is more impatient than any of us here), may be my wait is shorter than you which makes me little comfortable cos my shipping date 15th – 22nd. Even it get delayed it will not hurt me much cos i know it will be coming to me soon as i paid for it. If you would be in india i would have given my adam to you for few days to play around. after all this is a family and in a family every body should be happy.
    Take care Wally.

  1081. Enough of Lip service…time to act…..what is stopping NI from giving exact info and clarification of FCC and CE….
    IF the dates are not known to NI then who else on the earth knows them??
    very poor business sense demonstration by NI…. jumping in Orders before having proper infrastructure ready!

    Rohan and NI time to wake up…..before its too late……

  1082. something not directly related to Adam. On December 10 , when the pre order of Adam just ended, I had asked some of my friends to buy stock for NVDA, i.e. NVIDIA which is the heart of most of the Internet tablets been launched. NVDA was $14- $15 range. I had told my friends that since CES is coming, and going by the craze over Adam, obviously the excitement would be there for some other tablets too….Today NVDA was $23.00

  1083. Its getting annoying… Seems to me as they have bigger issues and don´t want to release anything.
    The product is officially on market due to the fact the preorder is done. CES is 5 days over so there can´t be still any “rest”. The homepage still looks like a Beta HP. If Pixel Q Models are still not available why not sell LCD?
    Somehow supspicious…

  1084. Update for US Customers on DHL packages-

    UPS and FedEx are the two major express parcel delivery companies for DHL in the United States. Limited domestic service is still available from DHL, provided that the packages are tendered to USPS for local delivery.

    modified from source (“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHL_Express”)

    I had experienced this last yr 🙂

  1085. I wish her well

    – I hope she has updated that old valve technology with some solid-state electronics

  1088. BTW, Greg’s unusual silence is getting louder as minutes tick! Has he got the Adam already and is he working on the videos?

  1089. hope your mother gets well soon and is equally amazed playing with your Adam (when it arrives).

  1091. @torque: I think Rohan is doing a great job. The day only has about 24 hours and besides sleeping Rohan must perform his duties as the CEO of Notion Ink, have some private time for himself and look at the thousands of blog comments from all over the world. I’m sure he has his hands full and is giving it its best so we all should be a bit more patient. FCC is a big bully so NI shouldn’t take the heat for it.

  1092. Well, I though I should clarify – this ain’t me!!! (although if it’s true, I wish it were).

    The only reason I disbelieve the post is because I’ve specficially received an email from NI confirming that no adams will be shipped without the FCC/CE labels.

  1093. as soon as NI team is finished dancing their bollywood sequence, or when the babus (bureaucrats) from the FCC gives Rohan the FCC number. Dont ask what FCC number is on this blog…google it please.

    by the way, were you guys hibernating so long?

  1094. patience…that’s all we can do at this moment. You should enjoying you did not pre order, think about those who did “;)”

  1095. I would have preordered 😉 If there were other Payments like Mastercard or Paypal ^^
    But anyway, the silence is suspicious. Also I thought to remember that he will announce infos about preorder2 at CES?

    BTW, I cant find any infos now on the FCC with the Y2G Code 😦

  1098. I am not sure why, because my normal dealings with most companies is a frustrating experience, but I am staying calm at the moment. Rohan was bludgeoned a few weeks ago by many, including some on this blog. He may be in the “offer little give much” mode now. I too have preordered and have to wait for CE number problem. Seems an extra week or so is OK, but I also take the point of view that NI will be hurting badly if it takes longer.

  1099. @Gecko,

    Glad to hear your mother is doing better, and also glad to hear you didn’t try the DYI option; give her our best wishes 🙂

  1101. Almost a week has passed without any information nor any apologies.

    The Worst transaction ever!!

  1102. I think, these people who ask constantly for preorder 2 are not real.

    they read the blog, they know about the issues, delays and unanswered questions and no normal people want pay money again before preorder 1 is successful completed.

    these posts are here to hold mood smooth and positive. its part of viral marketing 😉

  1103. @darksheer
    Not really, we are just saying what is wrong here. We are also fans of this device (otherwise we would not read this blog), but the fact that no news, no release and no shipping information were posted during and after CES is not normal… Also that there is again a delay in FCC (come on, you should doubt that it has anything to do with “labeling”…) should some guys here think about.
    I am also a big fan and would love to have it right now, but as it seems the dream will stay for longer…

  1105. Such is the height that even “aam-Admi” has started to suffer “Adamania”.
    NI save us plz!.. u guys are the only one who can!.. Give us our Adam A.S.A.P

  1106. Ditto.. probably looking at mid February.. you would have thought that things would be different after the pre-order debacle…

  1107. I think Rohan is waiting some good news to come here and post, as far as i know Rohan, when he shows is to give some kind of info or promise something or do something to make peaple be sure they are working on something, like before CES, just after preorders when some peaple start to say it was an scam.

    Im sure he will be here soon and give us some news about what is happening.

  1108. I also believe that Adam is a great device, but it is time to ask for a balance sheet.
    How is NI financed, is it a dream of four guys, who are working day and night to make it happen , is it financed by a rich uncle who gave NI 40.000 USD startup cost. is there a bigger investor behind it. Do they have enough cash to ramp it up and finance 10000 units up front. Did they pay their bills so far? Why did they not have anough cash to rent a 30000$ booth at CES? Why have we seen never more than one unit? Is there more than one unit?
    That kind of questions are not unfair, but will give us a better understanding about the solidity of the undertaking.
    …
    and I want one also asap!!!

  1110. Next Post Try !
    Thanks Greg (one more time) for his explanations
    “notioninkfan.com”

  1111. Nice story!.. I guess Steve & his Apple have/are exhausted off all their Talents & Innovation now lately. Its true & just like “Evey Dog has a Day”. Never mind Steve… 😉 your time is over. You are old now!.. Have some rest as you have already enjoyed your Times of Legacy. Now its time for the others to have a taste if it. 🙂

  1112. Hi all,

    I need to take my daily dose of NI (by intravenous ).

    I want to know when have I to paid the import taxes and to whom ? The deliverer ? Who’s the receiver of import taxes ? And what’s happen if I’m not home ? (really want to take a day off but can’t know the true date of delivering)

    Is there a gyroscope ? Or what’s the difference with a 3axes accelerometer ?

    Just one day before my actual estimated shipping date !

    Badbilou

  1113. @Darksheer, do you wanna sell your preorder? 😉
    I for one, willing to buy yours and I am sure there are thousands who missed out on preorder waiting eagerly…

  1115. hmmm for my presence in China I might check out that DIY surgery kit on Amazon anyway. Although they are all made in China, medical supplies are hard to get over here.

    Good to hear about your Mom, give her lots of warmth (a couple of light spots or so), gecko’s seem to like that.

  1116. Ok, not a plc, what is it then? Should we not know, into which pocket many of us put their money? NI might be very well funded, which would be great and would make waiting not so painful. Just let us know.

  1117. @Darksheer – I’m a real person (and I think I’m normal)

    It’s not that I really want to be a part of pre-order 2, it’s the fact that I (and many others) missed out on pre-order 1.

    For those who were able to order their Adam, please be grateful. Many people following this blog were unable to place an order (for various reasons), but we must remain patient until some good news comes along – and for Greg’s videos to be posted.

  1118. @ac2211

    Please don’t underestimate “labeling”, ask some experts which I’m not. But I had to do with this matter twice in my life: It’s a time-consuming matter in regard of 100 %quality.

    Best regards, Thomas

  1119. Looks like we are back to weekend updates only …. I thought the daily or two-daily videos were going to continue

    Roll on tomorrow (which is also the start of the week when my adam should ship)

  1120. Which means that if you account for your job responsibilities you should keep up to your promises as well!

  1121. It’s really great to see so many Notion Ink web sites created by fans. design of “http://www.adamtabletnews.com/” is very informative….others good too…

  1124. no i dont wanna sell my preorder.

    i want that ni keep his announcements and contracts and tell his customers the truth.
    i dont wanna more date shifts, delaying tactics or pictures, videos and stories.
    only the truth, not more.

  1126. greg doesn’t sleep, he waits!

    greg doesn’t procreate, he re-spawns!!

    greg is lighter than ordinary chocolate.

    take two bottles in to the shower? not greg!

    with only one calorie, greg should be used as part of any controlled diet.

    with greg and notion inks powers combined they ARE captain planet!!!

  1129. Like you I believe we should have a definitive list of apps. I have have written to customer services but got no reply. If they are ready for shipping then they must know what’s included.

  1130. @ Biswajit saha:
    “If you would be in india i would have given my adam to you for few days to play around. after all this is a family and in a family every body should be happy.”

    Wow, that’s an incredible nice gesture!
    I can only answer with this quote:
    “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling.”
    – Margaret B. Runbeck
    Have a happy trip all 😀

  1131. For those who are planning to buy high capacity MicroSDHC, check following article

    Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ drops SD card support…

    “http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/11/android-30-honeycomb-drops-sd-card-support/”

  1132. no one’s ignoring anything,NI simply aren’t competing with apples and samsungs

    they dont have the production capacity to compete, i think this has become more like indian regional politics(NI strategy).
    small parties get themselves noticed 1st time round with publicity stunts and go for a full-on attack the 2nd time.

    MNS any1???

  1133. yeah, but very quickly in that post it says the xoom people will do a fix update for it which NI will do too i’m sure.
    plus NI is doing lots of tweaks to 3.0 for the eden UI so a little SD slot tweaking must be easy!

  1135. LOL as always.
    Yeah, Greg is probably very bored. The pics he published in his profile give a clear picture of how mundane his life is: Machine gun shooting, mud racing, highspeed family breeding… so, clearly nothing out of the ordinary 😀

    >> Did I mention he lives in Utah?
    did you know he moved there from California? 😀

  1136. “Which means that if you account for your job responsibilities you should keep up to your promises as well!”
    I haven’t been able to fully follow the comments, but from what I see NI is surely having a bit of a tough time with the FCC certification. But saying anything now other that that they are still waiting for the FCC certification is a bit tough. Giving dates in uncertain situations is almost bound to go wrong.

    Other than that – I support the idea that the first preorders should be handeled first before any other preorders or orders start. WIth uncertain date of FCC certification it’d be foolish to give estimates on shipping dates on the (pre-)order page if it’s even slight possibility that the dates wouldn’t be accurate enough.

    It’s impossible to please all at once so any company should work their best towards fulfilling the first obligations before going onto the next. I’m one of those who are waiting for the next round to buy myself an Adam. If FCC certification for the Adam would mean that the shipping dates provided for the next round would me accurate, I’m more than willing to wait a bit longer even if I want the Adam right now.The feeling of getting a shipment ahead of schedule is far better than finding out that the shipment is delayed.

  1137. thanx karen that you appriciated. It is also ment for you also. I like your quote too.
    Now you have a reason to visit india i guess?

  1138. Hopefully he has news about the FCC – if the company’s waiting there is not much to post rather that to say “still waiting, delayed until FCC certification..”.

  1139. @Andromeda,

    I agree with you 100%. However, we all know what happened the last time when all the naysayers and the trolls were commenting that NI was scam and adam was vaporware. It was really hard on Rohan and all other followers who were waiting patiently.

    Now with FCC, even Rohan can’t help it, if he has to wait, then all the people who preordered have to wait. But what I want to see is some updates that we all thought we were going to get at the CES, but that hasn’t happened. Atleast the website needs to be updated will all the updates. As I said in my previous comments, CES generated a lot of positive news and new people who want to see the product will not want to g through the blogs, rather get the info from the website.

    I am a strong supporter of NI and I dont want all the naysayers and trolls coming back.With the CES, Rohan has shut their mouths and I dont want to see them opening their mouths again

    just my 2c

  1140. @toque

    Easy dude easy!! Just chill and relax…If you dont want to order, please don’t but calling some one names doesn’t do any good

  1141. Waiting on FCC is acceptable this lack of information is not

    How many time have we “the family” told Rohan that information is always better than no information = action is better than non action.

    We know FCC is out of your control but there are many things you can share with us but you seem to have gone back into silence mode.

    We are your biggest fans and we want you to succeed But you are making it hard for even us to be able to be supportive.

    You were given a lot of advice after the pre order issues, much of it was around better communication, PLEASE demostrate to us that you are learning from your mistakes because now it’s not looking that way.

    As always please take this the right way

  1142. LOL
    speaking about adamania. How about sweetening the wait for ADAM by already coining a few terms to make it into the fan vocabulary for project EVE?
    What’s the corresponding term for adamania going to be?
    It beeves me to name a few candidates:

    eveslust

    evesrut

    to feel beeve’d

    eveschief

    evephoria, to be evephoric about

    the evening = the eve release

    …

    😉

  1143. They had 4 units at CES, you can see two at one time on the Crunchgear interview. The company itself is a private equity firm. My expectation is that the initial prototyping was done at a “Friends & Family” phase basically using whatever they could scrounge together from themselves, their friends and their family. After the initial reaction at CES I expect they got an angel investor, but that investor ultimately had a different vision for the product. They were trying to get them to change to Windows, drop Tegra 2, make the tablet a netbook, etc… They split ways with that investor and Reliance Industries, which is a very large Indian conglomerate, bought out that investor and provided them with the funds they needed to get through to actual production.

    Noone from Notion Ink ever said they didn’t have enough cash to rent a booth at CES. They didn’t have a booth at CES because they had specific things to accomplish and they didn’t need one given where they are in their product cycle. They got all the publicity they needed through the interviews/hands on reviews that were done during the convention, which is what I believe was their intention. I am sure they are on a short leash with Reliance and don’t have full control over the purse strings, but once they get through a few rounds of production and shipments and the profits start hitting Reliance, they will release the stranglehold and we will see some relaxation.

    I am certain that, given the animosity that some of the blogs have shown (I’m talking about you Biggsy) that we would have heard rumors of unpaid suppliers and the like if they were out there. We heard those kinds of rumors surrounding the Crunchpad (again, talking about you Biggsy) before they released their tablet and ultimately they only sold 90 or so. We haven’t heard anything here, so I think they are doing pretty good so far, but if the FCC delay keeps pushing out shipment and thus delaying subsequent rounds of sales, etc… the hammer of Reliance is surely not very far away from their heads.

  1144. @legaleagll: Man, thanks, do not know how you know all of this, but I am impressed. If Reliance is holding their hand, our risk is much smaller to lose the money. Ok, let us hope that FCC issues can be sorted out quickly, Pixel IQ ships the right amounts and orders will get through quickly.

  1145. elliot hunter:
    > greg is lighter than ordinary chocolate.

    If that’s not evil, I don’t know what is.

    WhatTheFlyingF***:
    > did you know he moved there from California?

    I never claimed he was totally without redeeming characteristics

  1146. Thanks to everyone for their good wishes. It would have been nice to have had an Adam in the hospital (they have free wi-fi – and they also restrict computers; I haven’t figured out how those two things go together. The electronics engineers that make the medical equipment say that the fears of interference are all overblown) But I found other ways to pass the time, for example, there seem to be these things called “books” which might someday replace Kindles.

  1148. dude, it’s a quote from a maltesers chocolate ad.

    i don’t totally understand what you’re saying or am i being a dumbass and missing the sarcasm. 🙂

  1149. motionfreak, I agree customers do have a right to know more about a company. As for NI, we hardly know much about this company. Rohan, time to provide more information or else you start losing trust. You can not remain silent on all kinds of things. Anyway, as ever I wish Rohan and his company the best.

  1150. Rohan,

    You have to speak, at least now correctly about the bonus feature and pre-order 2 or when the ordering will be opened.

  1151. @Swapan Mahato

    Or his has taken his family on an outing. Spending lots of time with them now, as he is afraid he wont have time for them once Adam arrives. Maybe we should send his wife and kids something 🙂

  1152. @motionfreak

    COME MAN … please be fair.

    are you not worried about who is holding the earth from falling ? its a big risk right?

  1153. yeah i remember reading somewhere he had a lot on this week and it was kinda lucky the adam was delayed as he wouldn’t have been able to do some hands on video for a week or two if it had come on time.

  1157. The “Reliance is notion ink’s investor” thing is only a rumor. It will remain so until either RS or Reliance confirm it and it won’t be appropriate for us to speculate about it.

    We should believe Rohan and I m sure things will very soon improve as they did when RS posted videos of adam.Although all of us would feel better if Rohan shares more information with us.

  1158. Hmm, I am a physisist and I know who is holding the earth from falling, his name is gravity and I am seeing him all day long, not a big risk really. Running out of cash as a startup is pretty much a risk unfortunately.

    I apologize, I did not want to be unfair.

  1159. give him a break guys,

    the bonus feature is and fm radio and as a business NI cant do more pre orders till the first lot come out. otherwise it would be pre pre orders.

    saying that, i think the next round will be way quicker as they’ll already have the fcc/ce stuff sorted and then the ball is firmly in pixel QIs court as to how fast they can make the screens.
    🙂

  1160. He already said it’s an FM radio.Maybe u don’t believe the crunchgear video.(I do)

  1161. I agree, We shouldn’t be speculating on the rumors! Most of the early adopters believed in Rohan and his dream and that is the reason why they put their money down for Adam. We all thought that Adam was officially unveiled at CES and at that time, we expected to get more information about the Adam but that hasn’t happened till yet. Trust me, I am not bashing Rohan or NI for the lack of info, all I am saying is to build on the positive news from the CES to make sure that the dream comes true!

  1162. Well he said that radio came with the sim card chips and thats why they add that feature. So does that mean that the mystery feature will be only on LCD+3g and Pixel QI+3g. I dont believe thats the case!, I thought that the mystery feature would come in all the variants of adam

  1163. Rohan & Team just came back from an ARDEOUS trip and recovering from a chaotic CES trip. Give them time to collect their thoughs and put some material together. We are all information junkies but time is a valuable commodity. we have it easy, all we have to do is be patient and waiit.

  1164. Hi Greg,

    Would love to see the adam version of similar performance as shown below when u have a get together at your place 🙂

  1166. @primarycloud: Why do you believe that the CES trip was chaotic? i was made belive that it was well planned and strategically planned.

  1167. As others have said, bonus feature is known. I am one of the buyers from preorder1 and would like to tell you that, it’s better to wait for it to get over because I am sure it would be difficult to go through order and wait indefinitely than just order when you know exactly when you can get it.

  1168. Has this article already been shared?
    “http://mashable.com/2011/01/06/gadgets-to-watch-2011”

    #6 – the Notion Ink Adam

  1169. There is planning and then there is the reality of the situation itself. The results were tremendous but the experience . eventhough it may have been exhilaring and personally siccessfull, would have been draining?

  1170. ‘Notion Ink is all about realising dreams’.

    I read this on ‘About NI’ on this website.
    But now my dream is about to change over, and i do not hope , it is going into a nightmare – one of those, where you run and run without getting anywhere…when you wake up, you might be even more tired as you were.
    I have said several times, that I love this concept, and I want to keep it that way and to keep my confidence in this way of production and this kind of network . – But I’m getting a little tired while waiting for this ‘fruit’.
    – love, anyway….
    Calle

  1171. Rohan said: “Adam has already reached some of its owners.” Anybody any idea who that might be? Anybody out there? Please come and talk to us……

  1172. I know all of us want adam but it is not the only thing in the world to live and die for.Is it? I myself have grown sick of checking the blog and comments everyday(almost every 4 hours when I m awake).It has overtaken my life.I now wish that I would have never come to know of it.Before I became a NIA addict, I was much happier.But Post NIA, I have become frustrated b’coz it’s like a bone -neither u can vomit it out nor u can swallow in.

    No allegations on Rohan. He has been very truthful in his approach and never promised anything.I hope this addiction will end in about 2 months after I order and recieve my adam.

  1173. I know all of us want adam but it is not the only thing in the world to live and die for.Is it? I myself have grown sick of checking the blog and comments everyday(almost every 4 hours when I m awake).It has overtaken my life.I now wish that I would have never come to know of it.Before I became a NIA addict, I was much happier.But Post NIA, I have become frustrated b’coz it’s like a bone -neither u can vomit it out nor u can swallow in.

    No allegations on Rohan. He has been very truthful in his approach and never promised anything.I hope this addiction will end in about 2 months after I order and receive my adam.

  1174. awwwwww 🙂

    you’ll live i’m sure. just keep breathing and check your heart rate every 8 seconds until you get the confirmation email. lol

  1175. wow.
    people are really taking this delay personally!!

    it’s fine guys! it just means you have a little while longer to do those finger exercises to stop them from cramping up from gymnastic touch movements when it does arrive.

    and stop crying. or i’ll cry, then we’ll all cry…sniff sniff 😥

    🙂

  1176. it came about a month ago, but I think, it was a bad plan trying to stay awake while waiting for my Adam 🙂

  1177. +1 lol 🙂
    On a more serious note. Where is Greg? Has he got his adam(s) yet. Greg… Greggggg!!!

  1178. “http://tech2.in.com/india/topstuff/tablets-laptops/could-the-adam-wipe-the-floor-with-the-ipad-2/185912/0”

  1180. All I can say is I’m glad I have the full support of my family right now. They too are excited for the Adam and I’m pretty sure my wife is warming up to the idea of having one of her own. I don’t know how many times I’ve come into the kitchen to find her with a laptop on the counter and some recipe blog on the screen while she is cooking. I keep telling her how much more convenient the Adam will be for that and for other things she does… 😉

  1181. that’s what confused me too. pre-orders are different to general release. pre-orders have very loose timeframes. i found this out when ordering an archos101. that was about a month later than they said and that’s a big company.
    i cancled that order when i found out about the notion ink adam! 🙂

  1182. why havent we heard a peep from those who Rohan say have gotten it? You would think at least one of them would have posted. arrrrrrghhhhh

  1183. Hi Adam fans,

    I am a long time Adam (Rohan) fan but not on the blog very often. However, I read most of the comments. I think nobody got any reservation to accept the better features of Adam when comparing with other Tablets already on the market or announced in the CES. But IMHO you Geeks are doing a disservice to Adam when you commenting Adam as a competition to IPAD. Let Adam earn it’s right place in the global market. Here you may like to see the comments from my friend GECKO “What Competition?”. That two words speaks a lot. So in your (over)enthusiasm please do not harm Adam (Rohan).

    Thanks.

    Alex

  1184. I’m going to be honest, waiting to ship a product I paid for, “Just because”, after setting a shipping date expectation, is rather absurd. You’ve had my money for over a month… unless the quality of the product will somehow be affected by shipping the product within the time-frame you specified, i see no reason to wait.. (I’ll note, YOU hold the power to set this expectation, and are letting me down, unnecessarily).

    I appreciate the work you’ve all done at Notion Ink, to make this tablet, however there are things to consider other than “just waiting for FCC approval”. I just hope the device ships within the time frame you specified originally.

  1185. ya, this is getting very suspicious…I know if I got mine, on eof the first things I would do with it is post a note here. he did say people already have it. Even greg hasnt said he has it, and he was “shipped one personnally by Rohan”…something aint right here.

  1187. @Martin L.: Why would then Rohan say this? He was maybe back from the trip and was not aware that the team had decided not to ship anything without the final FCC approval ?!? Could the team decide this without him knowing as CEO? Is he maybe talking about only a few units to family and friends? It really does not make a lot of sense to me.

  1191. @ Primarycloud, seriously?!? If you note the above post by Rohan says users ALREADY have adam in their hands… Ok ?…..we are going on three days now, and NOT A SINGLE POST FROM A NEW OWNER…and all you can say is that the trip you didnt go on, to Americas VACATION SPOT in Las Vegas was Ardeous??? Seriously….

  1195. \Sarcasm on: I hope that you are not going to cancel your Adam order in June when they start to take pre orders for Xoom. \Sarcasm off:

  1197. hehehe
    sure yeah, i’ve been pre ordering things for years now and canceling. never got a computer even as i’m waiting for that thing that’s out in 2020 🙂
    lol

  1199. “…i don’t think the notion ink tab is vaporware. i know those guys are serious. the problem is that vision doesn’t pay the bills” -crunchgear

  1200. lol. thats a good one, I am still without a car for 20 years. but waiting for the pro ordered turbo charged fully electrical Porsche butterfly XL.

    funny

  1201. Joda would say: “Patience you need to have” ! 😉

    ….but it´s quite boring to press F5 and hope for something new…..day in….day out…..

  1202. Hi

    today is 14 Jan, for me , shipping date was 15 to 22 jan, fingers & toes crossed. :->

  1203. When you are stuck in a traffic jam, it ALWAYS helps to know what is causing the delay.
    Come on NI, we would like a simple explanantion. A delay won’t matter so much if we know WHY.

  1204. Right, its only a rumor that was reported all over the tech business journals/blogs. And after announcing they had received a new investment, they just happened to move their offices from where they were located in Hyderbad to the Subramanya Arcade in Bangalore that happens to house the Bangalore Reliance Communications HQ. Its just a coincidence.

  1206. Too bad. That would have been cool. It is a little suspicious also that Notion Ink has supposedly asked him not to post anything about it????

  1209. They were hoping that they’d have FCC certification during the Christmas time. But since then, the ETA of the FCC ‘stamp’ has been delayed time and again.

  1210. @Rajesh Tomar,

    Don’t get your hope too high as the people who had shipping dates of Jan9th havent been shipped. They might receive FCC Labels today and then ship everything on Monday, but that will happen only if they receive FCC labels (or Certification)

  1211. Hi guys,
    All the good response which got in CES is damaging by notion ink itself. It’s better for them to come forward and explain the reasons behind delays before all these tech blogs write all s**t about adam.

  1212. Adam needs a polished website with lot of use case videos. How many of u agree with this? This present website is very bad.

  1213. @Ganesh

    Seems that your request was answered. 😉 Only God (and Rohan) knows…what’s going on?

    Amit – January 13th, 2011 at 3:55 pm UTC
    NI support team contacted me and I cannot post the pictured till people in the US/Euorope get it.

    but I can give hands on since I own a ipad as well.

    I have pixel qi model and reading is much easy on eyes. no glare and is great in sun.

    I am typing this on the Adam. battery life is at least 2x of ipad. it is super fast as compared to the ipad.

    I am able to run angry birds smoother than ipad.

    sorry guys I am short on time.

    you guys will love your Adam too.

    Amit,
    banglore

  1215. @bsmdbt,motionfreak,
    I am not trying to say anything in support of or against NI or Rohan here regarding the shipping dilemma, but you seem to not have an understanding of an 18 hour flight back and forth in about a week.
    Goa, in India, is a nice vacation spot. Try going to Goa, spending three full days in an event and coming back to the US within a week’s time and you’ll realize what it is like (considering that Rohan left on the 3rd and returned on 11th).
    Regarding shipping, it better be early than late .. for good reasons. I am frantically waiting for mine supposedly due between 15 -22 Jan.

  1216. @Wally West and others with outstanding questions.

    Check “http://nifaq.pbworks.com/w/page/34159353/FrontPage”: The FAQ sheet of Adam with hundreds of questions and dozens of answers 😉

    It remains the best source for what the Adam is and what it can do.

  1219. Hey Rohan, are you rested enough? Time to get back to updating us with another blog entry

  1222. @Greg,
    Great, you are back! I was about to report to that police about a missing person!

  1223. Do people need any rest when they are in their 20’s? I thought they party till 5:00 AM and report to work at 8:00 AM.

  1224. @ Paul,

    Thanks for the link. I can educate myself while waiting for the shipment whenever it may be.

  1225. Hey pavan, i have seen it a month ago and i was dumbstruck. it was amazing to see people perform like this. Now just think in adam 3 leaves playing 3 different musical instruments apps? It will be something more awesome. EPA guys take a note on this and make some wonderful musical app.

  1226. In other news, Nissan (an 80 billion dollar company) is struggling with the production/delivery of a revolutionary product (Leaf).

    So.. you know, shit happens.

  1227. @karen Real true

    Rohan made sure that we all felt that every day without an Adam is a lost day,
    so now many feel that there is nothing more urgent then getting an Adam!

  1228. Has anyone noticed that there hasn’t been much input from Greg the last couple of days?

    The reason likely is he is spending most of his time on the blog he created called Notion Ink Fan. “http://www.notioninkfan.com/” His blog is very well organized with frequent posts by Greg himself. By the way There is no report from on receiving his Adam yet….

    This word press blog leaves a bit to be desired……Perhaps Notion Ink Fan wii eventually be the place to be.

  1230. motionfreak: I agree, it does not make a lot of sense to me either. The Adam looks amazing, I’m very happy that I was lucky enough to get my pre-order in, and I can’t wait for the day it actually ships. But, Rohan has said many things that haven’t quite worked out the way we’ve all expected. At least in terms of timing…

    I do hope that when we all finally get our Adams, that we don’t run into these same delays with Android updates. What we’ve seen of Honeycomb so far looks pretty nice.

  1231. You should also keep your eye on:
    “http://www.notioninkfan.com/2011/01/check-out-our-notion-ink-fan-youtube.html”

    Think that kept Greg and Mike busy too.
    And G said this was going to be a busy week (work and al that) as well.

  1232. Guys here are the possible Facts!..

    1> He’s probably still having the Jet lag. And not wholly recovered yet! And so not in the mood to reply to anything as of yet.

    2>He says Adam has already reached SOME of its owners. Note:- Excludes the major destinations.. Americas & the Europe. So now its much clear the remainig regions most reasonably be Asia-Pacific & Africa & also may include Australia/New Zealand.

    3> If anyone from these regions have got theirs! Why din’t they share with us?
    Possible reasons:- Well most likely there aren’t many ppl from these regions regular.. out here at this blog. May be they do not know much english & also may not be the part of the family. They are not aware of this blog or its significance as much as us.
    But, they were there while the pre-orders, when it was open to the public after the 1st six hours. If you all remember.

  1233. @number01pup Indeed most parents feel that: too much anticipation waiting for their kids to arrive. Congrats that you expect your first one mid February.

    (if pup stands for puppy, then you must really look forward to your baby)

  1235. I don’t know whether it clarifies or creates more speculations (why NI asked amit to withhold posting photos) but you’re welcome, Karen.

    It is getting to look like an endurance game – who can sit back and relax. 🙂

  1237. @TonyMcDonald – I would LOVE pen style note taking.

    Almost daily I have write Chinese and have been looking for written character input programs from the day that I had my first Android. But until now to no avail.

    It will also help in getting to know what a character means. I can often draw it, but not easily find out what the character means. As I do not know the pronunciation of a new character, I can’t look it up in an online dictionary. I do then need to use something that Gecko indicated as ‘books’ and that is so heavy to carry around.

  1242. I think NI are extremely cautious about the FCC/CE certificate, and therefore they might be worried that if you make a picture/video of the back WITHOUT the required numbers they might get some trouble.

  1243. Sorry for taking so long to reply, but I recenly read the slashgear impression of CES and they stressed the crazyness of it all. how difficult it was to get around, how bad the food was, the many little booths that were trying to attract attention; Everything seemed to be extremely stressful. For Rohan this could not have been easy and when he did post he did mention how he had to get some rest, detach, disengage for awhile. and then start dealing with the enterprise and the issues, such as finalizing the shipping and preparing for the next wave of distribution. Annd don’t forget the negotiations/arrangement with all the partners that will make it all happen. And then create the post for us, the understanding family. Are we understanding? With patience all things are possible.

  1244. Greetings fellow Ni-ghts who say NI.
    If you have an ADAM on order, please head on over to the FAQ WIKI
    “http://nifaq.pbworks.com/w/page/34160024/4%20–%20PRE-ORDERS,%20LAUNCH%20and%20ORDERING” and take the poll. It will give us an
    idea of how many folks are watching the blog along with an estimate
    of the numbers of the various versions on order.

    While there take a look at the WIKI and take the poll on the amount of memory you believe you require for “future” ADAM versions. Poll is located on the
    “Wish List” page.

    Lee

  1246. I see that that ppl are getting again very impatient just like the day before the binary counter in the website was about to decrement to 1 ( just before pre ordering ). I urge every one to kindly be patient.

    Ok…just got this out of my figment of imagination …so thought I will share with all

    “When archeologists will dig Bangalore after a few thousands of years they will find something in more quantities than mere human skeletons. Those will be the bits a pieces of pixel Qi screens, the tegra chips the HDMi ports , broken pieces of matt finish glass. And suddenly out of the blue they will unearth a completely intact ADAM. And they will be wondering and will be marveling about the beauty of the device…..ADAM will enter the history books as the most popular and widely used tablet of the ancient ( today’s era will be ancient as per them ) IT world.”

  1248. @ toque

    that comment of yours was totally inappropriate and uncalled for. Sort of troll like and I don’t throw that troll word around easily.

    @Andromeda and suresh

    A++
    I find it interesting that some would fault Rohan / NI for the delay that surely falls in the FCC’s lap. NI can’t be held accountable for the FCC’s delay in approving the Adam. The ones that have pre-ordered just have to grin and wait it out. Such are the pitfalls of pre-ordering. Things can and will happen both to the company trying to get the product out as well as other 3rd party obstacles that prevent a smooth outcome.

    Its funny but there is one common theme I keep seeing in this blog, and its when things don’t go as smoothly, knowing full well its not Rohans fault, they start complaining about the guy, the process the company. Get over it.

    And then we wonder why other CEOs don’t interact with their customers.

  1249. guys check out this link and share your thoughts from outside an adamcentric universe!!!

    “http://techland.time.com/2011/01/13/its-not-going-to-be-easy-to-make-interesting-tablets/”

  1250. @legaleagll: well summarized. Many newbies don’t know about the history. I expect that once orders can be accepted on a normal basis, the Internet-site of Notion Ink will provide more info as well. It will save them a lot in support and answering the same questions over and over again to the press.

    @KJ: I do not agree that customers have a right to know more about a company. But I agree that more information reduces the rumors.

  1251. Biswajit saha, This was really great and it reinforces how great it is to have decided on tje Adam a year ago and why I will wait as long as necessary. Even at the same price I would not go with anything else. The Adam is simlpy the best and the greatest. Thanks again.

  1252. It’s too bad that the comments are begining to become negative again, but I uderstand why.

    Rohan please do / say something….anything.

    I wonder if the investors read these blogs. If so, I wonder how they are feeling about the silience? Are they upset by it or are they the reason for it.

    I know Rohan gave the impression that he “wasn’t allowed” to give official answers via this blog, but that would imply that he was going to give official answers through another means….the website is still not updated (doesn’t even list raido) as a feature, let alone mystrey feature….CES has came and gone and we still only have partial answers to some questions…..

    Rohan, if you have a plan which we all hope and suspect that you do, you NEED to step up and show some leadership here.

    It’s one thing to say you can’t do this or that because you are just a small start up…that does not hold water when it comes to saying you can’t communicate.

    After the pre order mess (sorry but it really was a mess), you said you were going to put your engery into world class customer support. That gave a lot of us that pre ordered hope, but to be honest you have not been delivering on that front.

    We pre ordered over a month ago, again we (at least I) can understand that FCC thing, what I don’t understand is the silence.

    All I can say is that as a professional project manager, if I ran a project the way this roll out has been run I would be fired and looking for a new job.

    I made the same comment in the days following the pre order, but I belive it still to be true “Communciation will be the key to your success or to your failure, the choice is yours”.

    You give us glimes of hope with frequent videos, indicating that you got our message, and they you go days (almost a week) without any updates.

    Sorry for the long comment, but me along with others keep coming back to this site many times a day…wearing out the F5 buttons and always leave feeling a little more sad than when we came to the site.

    I love the Adam and I can’t wait for it to show up, I really want you and NI to suceed. I will continue to support you, but please realize that others are getting upset to the point of leaving NI behind and moving on to other products

  1253. Look how fast the OS is…no lagging. And its just an a4 processor. I own an Ipad on also will order a Adam. But please stop hating because The Ipad already prove itselfs to be one of the best tablet out yet..

  1255. Seriously – im beginning to wonder if this FCC delay is more than just a “delay”!!!
    with the passage of time comes the pissed off feeling that borders on irritation..
    Not shipped as yet – perfectly fine
    Not informing the people waiting and keeping silent – NOT acceptable..

    So only people who only mail cust service should be told of the delay??.. Everyone else who pre-ordered should wait with fingers crossed;(!!!

  1256. People seems heated up in some serious topic, just like to ask you guys about ADAM. Will It Blend?

  1257. @ Suresh
    Got, I agree some updates of the website and more video would be great after the CES showdown. Maybe the next blog update will get us some updates like that, that would be appreciated. Even I have a bit of trouble catching up with the comments here on the blog. I commute to work and most of the day don’t get access to read the blog and post any comments. I’m subscribed to the comments but in the few hours that I’m home going through hundreds of comments is hard. Greg actually did a great job by posting the videos and some updates on his blog so Yay Greg! Maybe an update to the website is scheduled after the FCC certification approval?

    And like yourself I too don’t want to see all the naysayers troll the comments. I’ll have my fingers crossed for the FCC/CE and an update 😀

  1258. I don’t understand that since everyone that is getting an adam is a member of this blog…then why hasn’t anyone spoken up at all? Man I just want to see someone unboxing one. 🙂

  1262. Oh! Let me tell you!
    I’m gonna blend the sh*t outta that thing! It will powder so beautifully!

  1264. This should be turning negative.

    How many people spent over $500US on a tablet that has had its ship date come and go with not update at all?
    All we get is a “please be patient”?!? That does not cut it.

    Rohan needs to step up and explain whats going on and give some form of an ETA.

    An no, I dont think anyone has gotten an adam yet anywhere. Seriously, if they had been shipped to some places, someone would have posted.

    Also, I went to the FCC site and searched the applications for over an hour to try and find out for myself. Could not find anything with the Notion Ink name or in Rohans name. Fishy….

  1266. Exactly – and speculation about why people in asia, australia, africa are not posting in spite of receiving it – all BS..
    It has not been shipped – plain and simple..

    Rohan – you have GOT TO give an update.. This has the potential to turn ugly – and it will – given another day…

  1268. @twospirits
    This all is good for a young company like NI. Learning through experience so that next time things would be better. You always need to have enough headway to reach the deadlines safely. And sometimes you are the first line of defense even if someone else is causing ruckus. It’s completely understandable that people turn first to the company that provides them service/products and sometimes get angry at the company for things that are beyond the company’s jurisdiction. That’s what’s it is like when you’re in the first line of defense. It’s really hard to make everybody happy. I’m usually there so I know how it’s like. 🙂

  1270. very good point Sam, I’m a bit concerned about this too because Rohan says..these people have them “in hand”…yet after 3, now going on 4 days, not one peep?

  1271. It’s just 3rd day since his last post. what do u guys expect..? Should he post everyday…?

  1272. Earlier this week I said we should give Rohan the week to get the FCC labels in place. I still hold to that, as this is in essence what he asked for. If by Monday there is no change, than its clear that Rohan either has no idea when FCC labels will be ready, or perhaps he isn’t telling us about problems in getting certified. In either case, this would leave those of us who had purchased our NIs AND had our credit cards charged, in a pretty rotten situation.

    If our cards weren’t charged, then no harm, no foul. This isn’t the case. The fact that Rohan hasn’t updated us yet means he has no good news to share. He might have bad news, but if so, Rohan has a history of waiting till the last second to share this. Regardless, the “last second” is pretty much the end of the week, so we won’t have long to wait.

    Right after the pre-order fiasco, I put a response saying in essence I’d be shocked if we actually got our orders on time, and that nothing in the sequence of events led to a warm and fuzzy that they could stick to an agreed upon timeframe. But we decided to lay down our money anyway. That’s on us, and we should take responsibility – meaning we can’t treat NI like a real company with awesome customer service. We knew when we purchased that they were a nascent startup with immature customer service processes.

    So in short, yeah, be bugged folks (I know I will be if the 15th-22 slips), but take some responsibility as well. Hopefully this won’t drag out too long, and the NI, once received, will make up for it.

  1274. @ bikram das
    +1 hahahahahah that was super comment. by the way how was your ces trip ? i know you dint get a chance to see adam and thats sad. the other tablets which were manking buzz there asus, acer, playbook and xoom which you found the most impressive in looks in the os and ui wise ? hope u dont mind answering. like you eagerly waiting for adam.

  1275. Waiting waiting wanting …. tired…. upset ….. Let us know, information and knowledge is important. Please keep us updated, it does not have to be Rohan, just someone from NI.

  1277. Yes!

    We not need a long explanation. Just a “hey, still waiting. Looks like a few more days”. He of all people should know this crowd will be understanding. We just want a heads up!

    Im not a hater, i put up a site for the Adam at “www.notioninknews.com”. I just think NI as a whole needs to understand this is a big trust thing for most people and when we question they need to answer. Also, that those of us in the US dont react well to “be patient”. Cultural differences, thats all….

    I just want to know Rohan didnt have too much fun in Vegas and blow it all on a few girls 😉

  1278. First of all if there was a five day delay on 9 January ship dates, that would mean 14 january…which is today in the states (15th in India), so I think complaints about the lateness of those shipments is not yet fully warranted.

    That said there is something MUCH MORE disturbing. Rohans first words on this Blog were “Adam has already reached some of its owners.”. If that was true we are now 4 days from that bold statement from Rohan, and NOT ONE of those people, NOT ONE has confirmed receipt in any way, shape, or form. Now remember the first orders were exclusively to Blog followers…and we dont have any word from even ONE of them?

    This is very very troubling to me. At least one person who was loyal to this blog outside the US and Europe (like India) should have posted something by now, its outrageous to assume that they were so loyal to this blog before they got theoir adam and now that they have it, they dont drop a note??? Really??? Thats not very likely. Something isnt right with what Rohan told us.

  1279. @ darksheer
    yes you are right i agree with they are basically trolls , and even some are the ones who just watch the video of adam in engadget or slashgear and come here thinking wow lets order it , but i think 90% are troll .
    NOW A MESSAGE FOR TROLLS AND SERIOUS CURIOUS POTENTIAL BUYERS.
    preorder is just once it was done in december and everything is soldout . now since the entire world knows about adam , once the preorders are delivered there wont be any preorder there will be just orders . RIGHT NOW NOTIONINK IS WAITING FOR THe FCC AND CE NUMBERS AND CERTIFICATION ONCE THEY GET IT THEY WILL SHIP ADAMS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE PRE-ORDERED IT AND ALONG WITH IT START THE ORDER.
    i hope no 1 needs to repeat this again , and seriously if some 1 comes and ask such question again abt pre-order2 and all just ignore and dont answer. by the way sorry for the caps .

  1280. First of all if there was a five day delay on 9 January ship dates, that would mean 14 january…which is today in the states (15th in India), so I think complaints about the lateness of those shipments is not yet fully warranted.

    That said there is something MUCH MORE disturbing. Rohans first words on this Blog were “Adam has already reached some of its owners.”. If that was true we are now 4 days from that bold statement from Rohan, and NOT ONE of those people, NOT ONE has confirmed receipt in any way, shape, or form. Now remember the first orders were exclusively to Blog followers…and we dont have any word from even ONE of them?

    This is very very troubling to me. At least one person who was loyal to this blog outside the US and Europe (like India) should have posted something by now, its outrageous to assume that they were so loyal to this blog before they got theoir adam and now that they have it, they dont drop a note??? Really??? Thats not very likely. Something isnt right with what Rohan told us.

  1281. Books will never replace Kindles, I heard that they can’t even fit batteries into them! And the contrast ratio is terrible…

    Glad to hear that your mom is doing better. My father had brain surgery a little while ago, and it was tough on us. I looked around for DIY kits, but they all included hammers, and this thing called a “bone saw,” which I guess is like a crowbar/knife combo. I couldn’t find any helpful manuals, so I just let the pros do it.

    Hopefully you’ll get your Adam soon, and you can use it to amuse your mom. That way you can chat with us all the time!…

  1283. That is exactly what prompted me to say “Exactly – and speculation about why people in asia, australia, africa are not posting in spite of receiving it – all BS..
    It has not been shipped – plain and simple..” above…

  1284. Now this Adam-release drama is dragging like a 3-hour Bollywood movie! Not that I am not enjoying it but hey c’mon! We have had the song & dance sequence, the emotional highs and lows, the badass villains (android police/ endgadget), etc. Now let this be the last “reel” as we used to say. (missing are the item girls)

  1285. @motionfreak

    adam is a private limited company from india .
    look every 1 here on this blog knows that notionink is not samsung, apple, motorola or hp or rim they are a small company who is just starting up . and every 1 who u see on the blogs beside some trolls are the ones who have full faith in the company everybody has its own reason to have faith and ofcourse every 1 wants a awesome product also . if you really want to know answers for the questions u tend to know its better you dont buy adam now wait for some years when the company grows to be a entity in global market , as of now its a private limited company . if any 1 from notionink even answers your questions the next question from some 1 else will ask which school did rohans dad go and what salary the clerk in the notionink office gets . ask info about adam people will answer you . but the answers which u want still move in your head non-stop is better u wait . iam not rude pls dont take me wrong just understand notionink cant answwer your questions and infact they should not even try.

  1287. @Biswajit saha: Thanks.

    “That Eden user interface looks really really neat”

    My take: if people come into a shop and see 10 tablets, then only Adam has Eden.

    So the best priced tablet = the tablet with the best specs = the best looking tablet = the tablet that has the best user interface.

    ergo sum: every batch of Adam will be sold out this year.

  1289. You know what’s disturbing me?
    This is part of the official site of the NI Company.
    People heard about NI and Adam at CES or read about it in reviews and visit the site in their search for more info.
    All info is shattered and let’s be fair, not all comments are all that positive.

    This should not be the way to introduce the company and Adam.
    If I would visit this site now, for the very first time, I would have my doubts after reading these contributions. Doubts? I would probably click my way to another device, not spending time to read months and months of postings and comments. Still not gotten to know the unique assets of Adam and NI’s marketing philosophy.
    I’m really concerned about that.

    IMHO we should be here helping Rohan + Team in developing and sharing his dream.
    In Rohan’s posting of Jan 8th he said:
    “Someone wrote in the comments, they don’t care what dreams we have. I would say if that’s the case, we have seen 100s of tablets in CES, and we all are free to opt for one. But if you want to become a part of a unique history, sense the evolution, hang on, because we are here to do different things, and in unique ways!”
    This must have been hard for him to say.

    How can WE (followers of this blog, family, fans) help to turn this downwards spiral?
    I guess it’s hard once you are addicted 😉

    Yes, of course it would come in handy if Rohan would give more info.
    And yes, it would come in handy if FFC and CE numbers would come through.
    And yes, i’m also waiting for just (just, in comparison with some of you guys and girls) one year now.

    Rohan could have kept his dreams all to himself, not having shared it with us, and we would not be knowing and asking/demanding now.
    Instead, he shared and gave us the opportunity to be part of the development, the revolution.
    But Rohan will keep following his own momentum, following his own dream.

    I didn’t intend to offend any of you with this. If i did, i’m truely sorry.

  1290. Taking a quick check just to see where things stand. Appears comments are starting to swing to the negative again. Only informative post via Rohan is going to change the tone. It is beyond me why Rohan does not step in and keep the true Inker’s updated.
    This is the worst thing about this process. A very wonderful appearing device Adam and a very sad level of communication. Hopefully something happen soon to take us back to the top of the roller coaster ride!!!!

  1291. +100 Karen
    I am silently waiting, when Rohan can say something positive he would have done this, of course, let the man do his job….

  1292. @Paul schoe, See due to mass demand every company will sell its sh*t tablet. We saw a good tablet in 2010 and in 2011 we will see few more. I like the zoom & playbook and they will sell too in large number may be more than Adam cos they are giant. But my point is NI did a tremendous job bringing Adam itself in comparison to those something which was unachievable till now.
    Adam will be best & outperform rest cos it was made for mass and with passion. It wasn’t for profit making rather to demonstrate talent of young sharp mind.
    Now most of the tablet will have same or more hardware spec but Only UI & Apps will keep Adam in different league, may be unbeaten for quite a while.

  1293. +1!!

    I fully agree! Often enough – in business and in private – I’ve tried to live a vision. That’s what I love with NI, the adam and especially Rohan: There is light at the end of the tunnel. A light already described with a vision. And even once I receive my (first) adam I know that it is only one step forward to the future.

    I don’t think that the waiting is hard to stand: Being 50 yrs old I want to live another 50 with plenty of adams and eves 🙂

    Rohan, please continue to share your vision with us! And perhaps one day a fellow adamaniac will collect all your sayings into a single file …

    Best regards, Thomas

  1294. Here you go! Now the blogs have started going back to calling Notion Ink a Scam

    “http://www.androidandtablets.com/2011/01/notion-ink-adam-a-scam/”

  1295. +100 Karen
    I am silently waiting, when Rohan can say something positive he would have done this, of course, let the man do his job….
    Nobody is offend by you, everybody knows its correct….

  1296. Didnt offend me.

    I dont get offended at things people say.

    I get offended at being told and i quote this article, “Adam has already reached some of its owners.” by Mr. Rohan Shravan himself, yet going on the 4th day not a one of these “owners” has posted a single utterance. And lets remember these “first” owners were those people who were loyal blog posters who were allowed to order first. Something is clearly wrong with Rohans statement, and you shouldnt be covering for him.

  1297. I have only two things to say.. not in my words.. but truly meant. Be patient guys and girls!

    Today’s failure-plants
    Will tomorrow grow into
    Success-trees.
    Patience from below
    And Compassion from above
    Can and will do the impossible
    Easily.

    – Sri Chinmoy

    WHEN FORTUNE SMILES NOT, ONLY

    PATIENCE COMFORTETH.
    PATIENCE! though I have not
    The thing that I require;
    I must, of force, God wot,
    Forbear my most desire,
    For no ways can I find
    To sail against the wind.
    Patience! do what they will
    To work me woe or spite;
    I shall content me still
    To think both day and night;
    To think, and hold my peace,
    Since there is no redress.
    Patience! withouten blame,
    For I offended nought;
    I know they know the same,
    Though they have changed their thought.
    Was ever thought so moved,
    To hate that it hath loved ?
    Patience of all my harm,
    For Fortune is my foe;
    Patience must be the charm
    To heal me of my woe.
    Patience without offence
    Is a painful Patience.

  1298. I had similar feelings Karen, well said. BTW even though I am not Dutch, I live in NL AND I did manage to pre-order (delivery supposedly on February ;-)). I am open for a get together with the Dutches being around here. I live in Uithoorn.

  1299. Hi Karen,

    Your a good Notion Ink fan and your patience and understanding is commendable.

    Blogs are places where people’s feelings and emotions can and will come out. When Rohan and Notion Ink decided to use this blog as a place to connect to their prospective buyers and fans they have picked a place where voices and opinions will be heard. The positive and the negative. It could have been done differently and all the complaints and worrying would have ended up in their private email box. Yet, they decided to be very public with Adam and his coming out. The benefit being a low cost way to get out the word. We see the negative here now.

    We have come to a place where many have put down their hard earned cash. In most cases almost 30 days ago. In good business circles the customers money is not fully taken until the product is shipped. To be a first adopter of Adam many have pre-ordered and taken the extra risk of having their money gone and no product to show for it. To ask them to just be patient an hang in there is asking a lot.
    It is a worrisome situation for all but the most naive. It can be a hard cold world and those of us who spent years in it know it well. Rohan could do a lot to make a better situation of it. The lines of communication he opened a long time ago should be well maintained. Especially through the pre order and delivery process. Silence now is deafening and frankly borders on inconsideration.

  1300. Come on folks, I agree with Karen we must keep restraint and be patient Rohan and team is hard at work getting this to happen. Once the FCC and CE clarifications are done we’ll all be receiving our very own private piece of paradise.

  1301. Hey Carlo, i’m waiting for my chance to order.
    But we live only 30 minutes apart (Alphen ad Rijn), so an Adam Up would be neat some time!

  1302. Hello, though I am not Dutch I also like the idea of a adam user meet-up. I live in Amstelveen.

  1303. You are right, and that’s worrying me as well. What you meant to say, not that you said it of course.
    There’s alot Rohan can do.

    In the same time we are not helping him and ourselves by pointing at him as only variable in this. We are all weakening the investments made. We are in it too. We can change the mood of comments. Maybe? What do you think?

  1305. +1 Wally,

    Hey We are not asking Rohan to ship the Adams without FCC. All I am expecting is some kind of info or updates. We all were told that CES will be the place where Adam will be officially announced/launched and I don’t know if that has happened. The blogs have already started calling Notion Ink a scam even after CES which is what I don’t want to happen. NI has got its share of bad rep in the press already and I am sure Rohan doesn’t want to go there again! Atleast I don’t want to see that !

  1306. How credible is a blog when the author doesn’t even sign his article…

    Notion Ink Adam a Scam?!
    Written by admin on January 14, 2011 · 0 Comments

    Written by “admin”??

  1307. It doesn’t matter about the credibility, The bad news is the news that travels really fast!

  1311. Guys, then let’s do it! The only draw back at the moment is that we still miss the most important guest 😉
    As soon as he arrives, I’ll let you know.

  1312. I think it is not the delay itself but a lack of communications that irritates and makes people inpatient.

    It is refreshing for a CEO sharing this much information / ideas with fans. We all enjoy the good news, but communicating to fans/customers is even more important when things going bad than going well.

  1313. king,

    Your going to have to do better than that.
    What is a good explanation for Rohan saying “Adam has already reached some of its owners.” and yet on day 3 to 4 we dont have a single blog commentor confirming receipt or posting with their new found “family” toy?

    Riddle me that batman. Something is wrong with that opening statement, as only the faithful blog posters were allowed to order and receive their first…yet we dont have one confirmation of receipt in here…something is WRONG…Did Rohan mis-speak? or worse? that statement just cant be ignored.

  1314. A live-webcam in the NI- office in Bangladore would be fine- then everybody could see Rohan & friends rushing around… 🙂

  1317. motionfreak, if you’re a physicist, then you probably recognize the quotation “It’s turtles all the way down.” And, of course, you know that the earth rests on the back of a giant turtle.

  1318. the one who can change the mood of the comments is the one who made the statement “Adam has already reached some of its owners.” That is the stement that has me concerned…
    1. HOW CAN THAT STATEMENT BE TRUE, unless the receipients are blind mutes with no arms or hands and hence cant type.

    2. ONLY LOYAL commentors were allowed to be the first to PRE_ORDER, so its not like they werent active here, so why nobody here from outside the US and EUROPE confirming they have their long awaited adored adam?

    SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH HIS FIRST STATEMENT. IT CANT BE TRUE.

    So only Rohan has caused this negativism, and in the abscense of an explanation it IS JUSTIFIED, and only Rohan can clear it up.

  1319. All my comments seem to be stuck in moderation – dont know why…
    Here is a theory… Jan 14th is a Indian festival where the Sun start moving in the right direction (as in days getting longer – temperatures rising and all that happy stuff). May be NI is waiting for this day to make a announcement that they have started the shipments!

  1321. Patience is a virtue,it will pay off.Hang in there guys,Wish i had got a pre order and i was waiting with you.
    He you laugh lasts gets the longest laugh,ignore the naysayers

  1322. Patience is a virtue,it will pay off.Hang in there guys,Wish i had got a pre order and i was waiting with you.
    He who laugh lasts gets the longest laugh,ignore the naysayers

  1323. Though i agree that it’s a miscommunication from NI side, most of the guys are prepared to wait for one more time if communicated properly. But then 14th 15th 16th is a holiday here in southern parts of the India . So before making assumptions please do take cognizance of these things too.

  1324. Being objective is hard, since most here have invested in a dream, convinced in a better use of technology.
    We all mede the decision to be here.
    That doesn’t make a fool of someone.

    And I’m certainly not defending anybody. There’s a lot Rohan + Team can do: give an update with all missing info (no worse communication possible than no communication), sending the ordered Adams and stsrt selling again.

    Just asking you all if you think there’s anything WE can do to break the unconfortable feeling expressed all over this posting.

  1325. You do notice that nobody on this blog is as yet “naysaying”..right?
    Everyone believes in the Adam (atleast I and many others do) – its the false statements and contradictory statements that are creating the smoke..

    Patience is definitely a virtue – especially when a person hasnt invested $550 in it..
    For others – not so much:))

  1327. Listen Folks,

    The DEALAY in shipment isnt the issue at all, so get that out of your heads (I’ll explain why after what the REAL issue is)

    The real issue is Rohan’s first statement on this blog in which he says 3 days ago…”Adam has already reached some of its owners.”

    Really? And we dont have even one posting from one of the loyal family members who were allowed to be first to order and receive their adams? Not even one? Come on people this is clearly not a true statement by Rohan, just by how pre-order worked it is not possible that none of those NEW owners that already have the adam did NOT stop by and say something…come on WAKE UP people. thats the problem. Thats the concern! Not the delay in shipping

    Now as promised, here is why the delay iin shipping to the US and Europe is NOT YET a concern. Rohan said it was a five day delay. So if the first ship date was 9 January, adding five days to that is a NEW ship date of 14 January (thats today in the states). And lets remember thats a SHIP date, not an OWNER receive date, so it is PREMATURE to be upset about late arrival of adam right now, give that another 10 to 14 days, then start to worry. Come on people THINK.

    THE REAL CONCERN is ROHAN’s first statement of THIS blog….you cant see that as being elementary and obvious? come on…wake up people.

  1331. Btw can anyone please post the link of Crunchgear post where one person named as Amit is claiming to receive his adam? Wanted to check what he has posted? Wondering why he has not posted heer till now. Thanks

  1332. This ‘family’ needs some kind of therapy to make things funktion and to keep the dream alive.
    Jeg gider ikke være bekymret, men jeg har osse lagt 3000 dkr

  1334. i would guess First tablets have arrived,They have gone to EAP and they are still under NDA

  1335. Yes Karen, there is no doubt we hold the double edged sword. We bring victory with one swing and invite our own undoing with next. We cry out in anger here and it hurts Notion Ink has you described earlier. There by hurting our own desire for Notion Ink’s success. The thing to remember, and Rohan pointed this out, we can go somewhere else, but Rohan at least for now, is tied to Notion Ink. The buying public always looks out for themselves. If another company makes a far superior product at better price are you going to stick with Notion Ink and it’s dream if it’s customer service sucks? Even the most dedicated will fall by the wayside. Rohan and Notion Ink’s interest are far greater then ours can ever be. You witness this in sports, the teams wins and does a great job. The fans pour in. The team loses and does a terrible job the fans go home. Yes, a few dedicated ones hang on, but most go home. Notion Ink looks to have developed a world beater of a product, but if it’s customers service and marketing fall flat they will struggle to keep investors on board, and their dream alive. I love Rohan’s dream analogy, yet if dreams are not put into action they remain dreams. I have been very proud of what Rohan and Notion Ink have accomplished so far, very few can do what they have done. In this business, it is a business not just a dream, you can not rest even one day on your laurels. You cannot for one moment neglect your fans or your customers. For dedicated followers, like you, there is a strong desire to help. Yet, Rohan and Notion Ink have far more control over there own destiny then anyone else. I do sincerely wish them the best, I will continue to support them and their dream as long as they deliver what they say they are going to deliver. They hopefully will learn and continue to make progress, but the negative comments will only stop when they do something about them.

  1336. exactly Pramod. I tell you what though; If we dont get an explanation from Rohan soon as to why we are not seeing any of the loyal family members that Rohan claimed received their adams 3 days ago, posting from their new adam here on the blogs, THEN WE ALL CAN WORRY ABOUT EVERY SHIP DATE REGARDLESS OF WHAT IT IS.

    The Bottom line is Rohan OWES us an explanation concerning his first statement, and while he is at it an update on the status of the FCC/CE labelling effort and any change in any ship dates from the last report. As you pointed out some in here aren’t merely waiting to order…they ordered and the money is gone, but they have NO PRODUCT, they have already SUPPORTED ROHAN financially.

  1337. +1 that is what I have made of Rohan’s statement tht prolly he was talking about EAP or that Mysterious Mr Amit 🙂

  1338. Here you go. Scroll down to the near-bottom.

    “http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/11/notion-ink-adam-tablet-still-delayed/”

  1339. Thanks Tessy. SO after reading his two post , i can safely say that whatever he is claiming are miles away from truth. :). Better ignore him.

  1340. Sad to say I guess we could start lying about how we feel. Insincerity has never worked for me before though. You are obviously a caring giving person this kind thing has to be difficult. We can at best encourage the powers that be to come forward and communicate with those, that in the end, will be their livelihood. I’m sorry to say this is in Rohan and Notion Ink’s hands.

  1345. The one explanation I have is that what rohan mentioned in his blog entry ”Adam has already reached some of its owners.”

    He might be attributing this to his various non-EAP media “partners” with whom he has struck deals, like LongBox & Kobo who will be needing finished products as a prototype for developing their products (software / hardware) on top of Adam & Genesis.

    To rohan, even these consumers are customers / owners…

  1346. @bsmdbt January 15, 2011 at 03:06

    If there have not been any reactions from people who have *allegedly* received their Adams, it does not prove that the Adams have not reached at all.

  1347. Karen, I agree with you. It appears that there is an awful lot of fickleness here. Being “faithful” requires unqualified devotion. Either you support Notion Ink and their attempts at getting out the Adam or you don’t. Let us try to be “patient” as we have been exhorted to be by Rohan. I missed out on the “pre order” so I have a longer wait than some in the family but is will be worth it.

  1348. @Paul: Actually, viewers use the song & dance sequence in a Bollywood movie to take a break and go to the restroom! 🙂

    Since we are the Adam Family, I missed mentioning about the “over-the-top” family drama (or should I say dysfunctional family drama). At the end, all works out well.

  1349. Greg is MIA!

    (Actually, I want to see Greg’s un-boxing video and review much more than Rohan’s note).

  1352. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. My patience is wearing thin… We needs some information concerning our purchase…….Concerned customer……

  1353. The video is a year old. The dream still alive, I think.

    In January 2011, can we name 10 features we love in the Adam?

  1354. Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    Check this video:

    “http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2707057/10_features_the_notion_ink_adam_has.html”

  1355. I just read quite an interesting thing from Slashdot:
    “http://www.embedded-bits.co.uk/2011/1-second-linux-boot-to-qt/”

    It would be very impressive to see the same techniques applied to Android devices. I wonder how the boot times on the various tablets out there stack up?

  1356. Once upon a time, there was this guy who was following a certain blog.
    He followed it and startled upon the pre-order of a magical machine.

    He found out he couldn’t order it because he only had MasterCard.
    A few weeks later, like 2 weeks ago, he forgot he had a company’s Visa creditcard.

    He was sad, very sad.
    The End.

    Greetz.

    Daryl.

  1357. Wonder if we’re going to get a nice week-end special tomorrow morning? Man, this is one WILD roller coaster ride, ain’t it?

  1360. I plan on crying for you, as soon as I’m done laughing. 🙂

    (not really, I would never laugh at somebody’s misfortune. That’s unamerican)

    At least Adam should go on sale again soon, right? You’ll get one!

  1361. +1 yes it is underpriced!

    On purpose, too, if I understand Rohan. He wants to get devices out there, not make tons of money. The money comes after. 🙂

  1362. Nice statement in this site about the Adam vs the Xoom

    “http://takeatechbreak.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/adamvsxoom/”

  1364. Yea Greg is MIA. I suspect that he is holed up in his home playing with his new Adam. I hope that he doesn’t make us wait too much longer for the unboxing video. The suspense is kiliing me.

  1365. I’m really waiting for the next opportunity to buy this, I think, marvelous tablet.
    So I can’t wait for the first people who get the Adam after their pre-order and their impressions. After that the next round can start. 🙂

  1371. If you are planning to use the Adam or on your way to work (Subway?), or to take notes while listening to a teacher, ergonomics can be # 1. But most people have to see it first to know the benefits. So, yeah, it can be # 10.

  1372. Leaked News!…Big News!…Rumors or for Real?
    Hey.. Adamholics, Adamaniacs, Notionaddicts & the rest! Here’s a leaked news from some of the low profile local Bangalore IT & media sources, with some info which may or may not be credible enough but, never the less if it is to be believed then here it is. Munch on it!.. while you wait for your shipments or the next round of expected (Pre-order2).
    It’s seem that the Team Notion Ink is already readying & gearing up for their second project parallely, code named “Black Horse”. Which could mean anything!…there’s no sense to speculate at all! at this moment of time or shall i call the early stages, epically in the middle of some thing so very important, which is to do with the successful Launch or a.k.a Delivery of the so very essential 1st Batch of Adams.
    But thinking back on the same point, even in the farthest thought in my mind it may be something to do with NI’s (the next best thing to the Tablet) a “Cell” phone product. Or if thinking in the right direction, shall be something to do with the much/ever anticipated Adam2 & the Eve project?

  1373. Leaked News!…Big News!…Rumors or for Real?
    Hey.. Adamholics, Adamaniacs, Notionaddicts & the rest! Here’s a leaked news from some of the low profile local Bangalore IT & media sources, with some info which may or may not be credible enough but, never the less if it is to be believed then here it is. Munch on it!.. while you wait for your shipments or the next round of expected (Pre-order2).
    It’s seem that the Team Notion Ink is already readying & gearing up for their second project parallely, code named “Dark Horse”. Which could mean anything!…there’s no sense to speculate at all! at this moment of time or shall i call the early stages, epically in the middle of some thing so very important, which is to do with the successful Launch or a.k.a Delivery of the so very essential 1st Batch of Adams.
    But thinking back on the same point, even in the farthest thought in my mind it may be something to do with NI’s (the next best thing to the Tablet) a “Cell” phone product. Or if thinking in the right direction, shall be something to do with the much/ever anticipated Adam2 & the Eve project?

  1375. Did anyone see this??? “http://www.androidandtablets.com/2011/01/notion-ink-adam-a-scam/”

  1377. I won’t post the link here is the entry: If this does not wake up Notion Ink Nothing Will

    You all know that all of us here at androidandtablets.com are great Notion Ink Adam fans. However recent events (or rather non-events) have made us all wonder if Notion Ink Adam is after all vaporware at best, a deliberate scam at worst.

    The facts:

    * Pre-order of Notion Ink Adam started in early December (and what a shambles that was)
    * Money was taken from the credit cards end of December, beginning of January.
    * The first shipments of the pre-ordered Notion Ink Adam’s was supposed to start around January 9.
    * The Notion Ink Adam was showed off at CES January 9 – 11 and received really good reviews. We saw it and wrote about it, and we were extremely impressed.

    Now we are one week after CES and (as far as we know) no unites have been shipped. The CEO of Notion Ink has made a blogpost saying that there have been delays in receiving the final FCC and CE numbers, and that has caused delays in Notion Ink Adam. However, in the same blogpost he also said that people in countries not needing FCC / CE approval have received their Notion Ink Adam’s:

    * If actually someone would have received their pre-ordered Notion Ink Adam, you would have expected some sort of post / tweet/ whatever showing off their beloved “first born”. But not a peep!
    * In an email from support at Notion Ink they say that no Notion Ink Adam’s will be shipped before they have the correct FCC / CE numbers.
    * Nowhere on the FCC site is there any references to Notion Ink nor the CEO of Notion Ink having made any FCC applications.

    So, based on the above – we here at androidandtablets.com are starting to worry about if Notion Ink Adam is a scam after all. We sincerely hope that, that is not the case – but for every day that passes by and no information forth-coming from Notion Ink, it looks worse and worse.

    What is your take on the Notion Ink Adam situation? Replies in the commets please!

    Categories: Tablets – Tags: android, android tablet, android tablets, notion ink, notion ink adam,

  1378. SO is this thing delayed or what? Ive the preorder but got no email…? A new post Rohan?

  1380. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless the FCC works on weekends or on holidays (Monday), we won’t get any FCC clearance notice until after Monday the 17th. Its already 7PM EST Washington DC time and the FCC search hasn’t included any new additions for the last 2 hours. a total of 42 for the day.

  1382. 2. NOT TRUE! I had commented on this site ONCE in the initial days, and never after. I was skeptical about Adam’s success and didn’t really think I’d order until the second generation… if AT ALL! Guess what, since I had commented, I got pre-order link. So, I *did* order one. I think many such commenters were among those who ordered, and although I WOULD upload pics now that I believe in the promise of this device… I don’t think most of those individuals would.

    And that brings me to #1.

    1. The statement can be true, and there have been a couple of message posts about people receiving their adam shipments on fan forums. (link somewhere in these ~1300 comments. too tired to look through).

    Look, I’m no fan of waiting. And maybe Rohan meant to say that Adam has “shipped” for many.. and not that it was in their “hands”. Thinking ahead of yourself, y’know? It happens to the best of us. Could Rohan have lied? Yes. Would he? I don’t see a reason to do so. If the dang things are ready to ship, I don’t see why he’d hold it in the storage.

    I do NOT expect an explanation from Rohan. He should be doing better things. Like demoing Adam. Showing off different use cases. Or more importantly, ramping up EAP and Genesis development. Last thing I want is a nice piece of Adam without any content to buy. Because in that case.. it’s not the best tablet on market.. it’s just a tablet that has *POTENTIAL* to be the best. Not the same thing. 🙂

  1384. Some points to ponder:
    1. Rohan in some recent interviews and blogpost claimed to be working on making Notion Ink a hallmark in Customer Satisfaction. I really dont think any of theCustromer Service models would advocate such a big ravine of Information flow.
    2. The strength of Notion Ink is not the Dream but the believers in the Dream (company and the followers). I am sure the company should take extra caution in making it easy for the believers to keep on the faith.
    3. The blog post where an attempt was made to blunt the bad news of non receipt of FCC approval with the function of Camera is seriously insulting our intelligence.
    4. People defended the rather light involvement in CES 2011 by citing Rohan’s logic. I could take it for a second but my question is that when a CEO knew that he is not receiving his FCC approval in time and in turn the whole delivery timeline is going to be delayed, shouldnt the focus of the top team be to camp in FCC office in States and get the job done.
    5. I really felt that one person’s post being sinlged out in a blog (some one not believing in the dream) and effectively telling him to take a hike is not a very good example of Customer Satisfaction.(take the criticism with a smile)
    6. I personally feel that the focus of the company should be in deliverying results on time everytime. You might have come out with a half baked product but if the delivery model is effective, people will lap it up. (ref to some popular brands) But if it is the other way, I am not sure people will give the second chance.
    I am deeply disturbed about people writing about it as a scam. Being an Indian I take offence to it. Come on Rohan! Come out with all the cards in the open. please!
    At the risk of being labeled a pariah in this blog, I rather thought it prudent to be blunt than being patronising!

  1385. @nrzsez

    I agree that there is some PR problem with NI, but I guess they are learning.

    But I wouldn’t give credence to such commentary. The problem with this and other FUD gang is that they are under corporate mindset. They cannot believe that inventions can happen, and many times they require encouragement, and not gouging the inventor’s enthusiasm.

  1387. @Ramana: FUD gang?? anyways, I personally feel that the PR machinery is perfect. Infact this has the making of being a good case study where an innovator linked his process to the market. Its the Delivery model I am talking about. Now it is more of Operations Management than anything else.
    The second issue I have is with this ‘zero tolerance’ on criticism. It scares me that the basic democracy of a customer (potential) is being hijacked! I have been singing on top of my voice in praise of Adam to all my friends and colleagues…but I still wont flinch on any criticism any one has on any of my likings. Staying awake all night to see Crunchgear team weave all through the CES2011 to finally find NI team for an interview certianly did not ‘gouge’ my enthusiasm.

  1388. Looks like I am addicted and can’t stop hoping for someone to say that they received and Adam. We have Rohan missing and then Greg vanished after claiming he received a letter from Rohan about a special gift!!!

    Today is Sankranthi a festival close to my heart since I come from a farming community. I am hoping some of the folks who ordered will have their devices on this festive occasion.

    I loved and followed the dream, but I never was an early adopter and I never will be, I work hard for my money!

  1389. I agree. It’s totally inappropriate to speculate on rumors. We should only talk about things that we know for certain, which means things that have already happened.

  1390. Please This is not my opinion at all!!!!! However this the kind of thing that happens when communication breaks down. Notion Ink would do themselves and their followers a huge service if they make a effort to be more pro active in the public relations department!

  1393. By the way, where is Rohan? He is not even commenting on the blog!

    Also those who are expecting FCC approval on Monday is not going to happen as Monday is a Holiday in the US. The earliest is Tuesday, unless Rohan and his team had requested FCC to hide the results and Certification as well!

  1394. at androidandtabxxx.com

    jayachandran says:
    Your comment is awaiting moderation.
    January 15, 2011 at 03:44

    @androidandtablets.com

    based on the same above facts:
    1.vaporware at best,- you should be blind of-course , as you have no ability to see things whic exists physically in the 3Dimension world.
    2. deliberate scam at worst.- is this you definition of scam? This is YOUR DELIBERATE JOURNALISTIC SCAM JUST TO GET MORE TRAFFIC.

    shame on you . please be ready to eat your own …. soon. are you sir?
    Reply

  1395. riddle me this. If 10% sales went to India on preorder 1 and they have already received their adam tablets, the sales from preorde 1 had to be incredibly small. Not one person has posted a picture or tweet that they got one besides some random guy named Amit that claims that he has his and Rohan asked him not to show anyone… Does not make sense.

    Rohan, I understand if the board has asked you to not post anything negative about the updates in the company or production on this blog, but you must update your information as it becomes out dated. My Father’s adam preorder still says will ship Jan 9th. This is lack of information is detrimental. I love many things about NI, especially your dream, but if you cant provide decent customer service and communication, what is the point? All the dreaming in the world will get you a sale, but it wont keep your customer coming back to buy adam 2 or eve if you cant maintain the momentum of enthusiasm after the sale. You have investors and you have initial sales, you are going to have problems securing retail locations like best buy or amazon if you cant provide customer service for a product. Everyone here keeps saying they spoke with a Jon from customer service. You either have one person answering thousands of e-mails (i seriously doubt this because I have sent 3 e-mails to the preorder address and only got 1 replied) or you have more than one person writing under the single name Jon. Also this person has provided information that directly conflicts with things that you have said. Jon said nothing has shipped yet, and you say people who dont require FCC/CE (India) have received their adams. Please get on the same page and PLEASE Communicate. You will never be endorsed if you cant communicate.

  1396. @Kare, Nicely put. Lets hope the weekend will bring some much needed respite in the form of a new blog post from Rohan and lots of videos from greg and others.

  1397. When I first heard of Notion Ink Adam, I wanted it so bad… the only other option was the iPad and “Adam pwned the iPad”.

    Now months have passed and while the Adam is still better than most tablets, others are catching up, other tablets are closing in on the specs (Xoom, Galaxy Tab).

    Yes, I do know that the Galaxy Tab is not even in the same zip code as ADAM, but everyday we wait for the ADAM, the “Others” seem sweeter.

    I live in India, 5 hours away from the offices of Rohan… I still don’t know how the ADAM will be released here, if I can buy it at a store or would I need to pay shipping and customs… The iPad however has been available (for $700 though) since September here.

    In fact even if the ADAM comes out in say March, I am ok with it but an ETA would be nice, something like…
    “In a week/month/2 Months Adam will be available (in stores/ by online order only) in India” This is all I want to know. Hopefully we in India get some answers soon…

  1398. FYI Rohan, if your company wants people to quit posting comments that are of complaints or issues on this blog (open to the public) Open an official forum so we can post things under the right heading so you dont have everyone posting here giving you feedback that EVERYONE, even the news papers can see…

  1401. Come on people get real, what CEO gives a crap about consumers it is always all about the money. We(and me too) will get the Adam when NI is good and ready to ship it. All the mystery and not posting is because he has the “families” money already and most of us will not cancel because for us it has become a quest. When we do receive it we will play around with it for a few hours and then start posting how we are not satisfied ( wish it had this or that ). I can see from earlier posts that as a whole we can not be happy but only complain. If your tired of waiting then cancel your order and buy something else but quit thinking NI is different that any other company and cares about what you think !!!!!!

  1402. so if your not copeting then why are u so scared that you have to use childish tactics.

  1403. @elmelao

    thats so nice of you.

    @family

    happy pongal and Sankranthi wishes to adam and NI and all

  1406. Has anyone out there actually cancelled their pre-order and received a credit back to their credit card account?

  1407. Everyone just stop posting for a while. Then good things will come. Make this the last post until we hear more news. Can you do it?

  1408. Not sure about the radio, as I am running the latest CM6.1 on my Nexus One, which now supports the FM radio, however I need to plug in a set of headphones to provide an antenna. Hope the Adam version will be different.

  1411. :/

    No updates?
    It’s a week now… I’m starting to get worried. I emailed about an address change 5 days ago, and still haven’t gotten a response.

  1412. Personally, I would have liked the Playbook, as it would be coupled with my blackberry, as it is given by my office…other than that the XOOM is the best….it was so funny, they were just playing a video on the demo tablet. Also most chinese computer accessory/OEMs were out with their own brand of tablets….though all of them were pre production….In the US Samsung Galaxy will have a boom in the short run, competing with the Apple Ipad, but again…Ipad2 is coming soon…so it will beat the competition…Even if I have ordered the Adam beacuse of the innovative use of current technology and the being Indian (desi) factor, I think with all the Customer Service and PR issues that Notion Ink is having, Rohan has a uphill task. Wish him luck and also to all of us who have expressed hope in him 😉

  1413. And it’s not so much about pre-order 2, but it would be great if orders were just open and as Adams come off the line they keep getting sent to folks on the list. Many did not make it in pre-order 1. I hope everyone luck in getting their Adam’s soon and that Notion Ink can be at the point where they do not have delays to worry about, but rather just focusing on production and the next product.

  1414. Also, Rohan mentioned something about getting order links to the rest of the family that wasn’t able to participate the first time. So not all trolls. Many of us have been here as long or longer than some who did get pre-order.

  1415. Well maybe that’s the issue. After all the play about Tesla here – didn’t he take issue with gravity?

  1416. OK… so a “birdie” just whispered to me, and it’s not a good news. And I think the quietness from NotionInk makes sense. Expect a response in maybe 36 hours or so.

    Considering that… my original solution to “eagerly waiting” problem still stands:
    I marked on my calendar… March 19th as the “day adam arrives on my doorstep”. If it doesn’t by that time, I’ll move onto buying whatever is the best option then. If it arrives before, unboxing video will be made available (given that there is lack of such).

  1419. @jayachandran
    It’s true what makes us think we are special? If we were, then we would be getting more information but we are not. On the big chess board of life we are nothing more than a pawn waiting for NI’s next move. Keep us waiting and wanting more, this is great marketing for those who asked for it. Not one person who has been following this blog for a year or longer knows any more now than someone who just joined the blog, only that they have sent money for a product they hope they will receive. I too sent the money but a month later I don’t have a clue if and when I’ll get it. Please stop thinking your on the “inside” because your like everyone else. Face it Rohan posts something every now and then to shut us up and prolong the hope.

  1420. @trolling: I dont think many people here are actually trolling but are frustrated with the communication breakdown of NI. There needs to be an official forum for us to communicate effectively, there needs to be a toll free number to contact where someone is going to answer the phone 24/7. You are releasing a product. Support it…

    Rohan, you said 60% of all your sales on preorder 1 went to the US, I firmly believe this is going to increase with preorder 2 and in the future as your product becomes popular. Many US customers are not willing to wait for e-mailed replies from jon(which most e-mails are not answered and just ignored) and need a number to call or at the VERY MINIMUM a way of using the internet to do an active chat with someone TRAINED in customer support, who is also informed about the current status of the company.

    you have seen the dedication of a NI fan. They seek out any article written on the adam and correct them. We make sure they present the adam in a fair light and dont spread misinformation about it. If you cant provide customer support and correct the communication flaws, these people promoting your product all over the web for free will turn and begin telling their stories of poor customer service.

    Rohan, a dream can not survive without believers. Keep the momentum going.

  1422. That picture appears in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly, labeled “Photo Composite.”

    Yours very truly,
    Dr. Gecko, source scholar

  1425. basementdebit:

    > And we dont have even one posting from one of the loyal family members who were allowed to be first to order and receive their adams? Not even one?

    I’m not so good at higher math, but I can count to one, and “we” have one (Amit). Maybe you were excluded, somehow, and your computer didn’t receive his messages. Or maybe you can’t count to one.

    Now, if you’d said “not even two,” well that’s the higher math I was talking about, so I won’t go there.

  1426. Wally Wally West:
    .> We bring victory with one swing and invite our own undoing with next

    Sounds like what they say when they circumcise you.

  1427. I think this post should be titled nowhere and back……

    If anyone had received an Adam we would be seeing youtube videos by now. I think it is 100% guaranteed that no one has.

  1428. We may not see any action on Monday, but if you do a search “https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm” for all actions taken on a Sunday, let’s say January 9, there are results with that Final Action Date. Normally, government offices would not be open over the weekend. Maybe the FCC has some process that continues working while everyone is at home.

  1430. Joshua Price:
    > It’s totally inappropriate to speculate on rumors

    I never speculate on anything else. Remind me not to invite you to any parties.

    I have to say, though, that I’m mystified that people are upset. There’s a small item in the current Scientific American to the effect that pigeons can solve certain kinds of puzzles better than people because they just look at the results and learn from that, while people tend to over-analyze and don’t learn from experience.

    My lizard brain tells me that we’ve seen this before, during the pre-order mess, and we should know from experience that Rohan is bad at communicating during this sort of situation, and that things will be made right eventually and, as I’ve said before, we’ve seen this before. But people never learn.

  1434. dont bother commenting on that crap.. same shit just to generate traffic on a shit site.

  1435. One more visit to the website and the blog and yet again still nothing! Just more comments all stating the obvious, Rohan NEEDS to say something.

    Is the silence due to
    1. Being to busy, if so delegate more
    2. Not having good news, if so give us bad news but talk
    3. Ego, if so reevaluate, your product is great but you have to prove yourself
    4. Investors say don’t. If so tell them to read this blog, you are LOSING customers.
    5. Other, if so please explain

  1436. LOL…..I can not help laughing … no not at Daryl …that is unindian too… laughing at Joshua’s sense of humour!

  1437. Jan 14,15 and 16 is a holiday in south india… Let the guy chill a bit it’s the world is not gonna end in next few days.. Wishing NI team happy holidays.. 🙂

  1438. Jan 14,15 and 16 are holiday’s in south india… Let the guy chill a bit. the world is not gonna end in next few days.. Wishing NI team happy holidays.. 🙂

  1442. Comments

    PeterS – January 11th, 2011 at 9:20 am UTC
    I did pre-order, but am fine if it’s delayed by a few days.

    reply

    Joshua – January 11th, 2011 at 9:31 am UTC
    And then a few more days, then a few more even still…

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    jmartcougar – January 11th, 2011 at 9:43 am UTC
    and a few days more after that…

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    Stefan Etienne – January 11th, 2011 at 9:57 am UTC
    And then another week…

    kstagg – January 11th, 2011 at 10:20 am UTC
    And then there’s the Indian Groundhog Day Holiday Schedule….

    ADAM – January 11th, 2011 at 10:51 am UTC
    KEY WORD …. PREORDER!! THERE IS ALWAYS BEEN DELAYS IN PREORDER. I HAVE PREORDERED ITEM FROM WELL ESTABLISHED COMPANIES AND HAVE THE DATE PUSHED BACK OVER AND OVER. PEOPLE AT CRUNCH GEAR , PUT IN “IF YOU DARE”. WHY IS IT THAT THEY KEEP GIVING NEGATIVE PROPS TO NOTION INK (STARTING COMPANY) I GUESS THERE A BUNCH OF APPLE FAN BOYS WHO IS JUST JEALOUS THAN THE ADAM TABLET IS FAR SUPERIOR. GUESS WHAT CRUNCHGEAR TEAM I DO DARE TO PRE ORDER AND PATIENTLY WAITING . SO YOU GUYS CAN EAT YOUR WORDS AND YOUR NEGATIVE REMARKS. TAKE TIME TO DO YOUR JOBS PROPERLY AND PUT FACTS OUT… NOT OPINIONS ON YOUR SITE.

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    A. Santos – January 11th, 2011 at 12:31 pm UTC
    You want facts? Watch your local news! We need opinions. We need people like these that actually research, test and play with all the gadgets out there. They take the time to write about it in order for people like us to make a decision about purchasing or not a device. Or if you prefer, you can read the product customer reviews on Bestbuy.com after you wasted your money on something. Keep up the good work (opinions) Crunchgear!!!

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    kman – January 12th, 2011 at 6:14 am UTC
    “jealous about adam”! ha ha haaa uhh ha ha haaa haa ehu ehu ehu u u u u haha haha hahaaaaa

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    kman – January 12th, 2011 at 6:20 am UTC
    ok, enough laughing. ADAM IS THE BEST TABLET IN THE WORLD. Apple’s ipad and samsung galaxy tab are all vaporwares. Now are you can have a peaceful sleep tonight.

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    Ravneet – January 11th, 2011 at 12:32 pm UTC
    On the other hand, can a popular tech blog just take a picture from another company (of their product), alter it (to a negative PR effect) and put up on their popular blog?

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    anil – January 11th, 2011 at 12:46 pm UTC
    again and again this has been proven wrong , that NI is vapoware , scam etc ..i dont see any alaram in 1-2 week delay. hasn’t it happended before for any of other companies. if yes, why big fuss this time?

    now more ppl including crunchgear have seen and felt the adam in hands, it is very immature to now put ‘If you dare’ image

    do you still doubt about it ? if yes on what facts. bcs author of this article and some commentators luv facts and now in my eyes facts are more in favor of adam then before

    so time will answer this wether is it gud decision to order or was a mistake..

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    Sebastian – January 11th, 2011 at 12:52 pm UTC
    John, your hatred of the Adam has sunk to new levels of pathetic proportions. Your child-like immaturity has ravished your entire sense of journalistic dignity which has been reduced to writing out-of-your-way one line articles that serve no purposes other than to display your egotistical bullying of an otherwise universally liked device by the majority of readers of CrunchGear. It is completely gross how you root for the failure of an up and starting company in India that is doing no more than ridding our society of the hegemony and monopoly of electronic devices by Apple, Dell/HP and Samsung. In other words John, you are a Dick and an internet tough-guy and I dare you to prove me otherwise. Maybe you guys should make your own tablet and see how hard it is… OH WAIT!

    Crunchpad<Duke Nukem Forever

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    smitty – January 11th, 2011 at 3:05 pm UTC
    I am a long time supporter of Notion Ink (been following since April 2009) and one of the lucky people able to get in on the pre-order with a Jan. 9th “estimated” shipping date.

    For anybody who paid attention during CES, Rohan confirmed that the first shipments would be going out after the 11th.

    My only problem is that we were NOT notified as per the pre-order status page:
    “*This is our best estimate of the shipping date. The actual date may vary; we will keep you informed in case that happens.”

    The only reason some of us received an email explaining the delay is because we sent an inquiry to support.

    Everybody with a Jan. 9th shipping date should have received an email BEFORE Jan. 9th (it’s clear from the Liliputing interview that Rohan already knew about the delay on the 5th) AND the pre-order status pages should have been updated at the very latest on the 9th. It is now Jan. 11th and my pre-order status still reads the 9th. The only reason I received a mail is because I contacted them. This is wrong.

    I still love NI and eagerly look forward to my Adam, but NI really needs to focus on details like this and follow up on their commitments.

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    NIK – January 11th, 2011 at 7:37 pm UTC
    What does that mean “…if you dare”? Pre-orders were already made an there’s is no current acceptance of further pre-orders. Are you guys, like, 8 year-olds, here at CrunchGear?…Because, if you’re not, you’re in serious risk of some punitive legal action.

    NiK

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    NIK – January 11th, 2011 at 7:43 pm UTC
    …and another thing…it is utterly ironic that you guys are hyper-critical of any minor fault from a Tech company start-up offering us a truly innovative product and then are even incapable yourselves of accomplishing something as simple as using Photoshop Prespective tool in a competent way to blend your innuendos seamlessly into the photo you hijacked from the company you’re trying to slur.

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    Androja – January 11th, 2011 at 10:24 pm UTC
    Wait and watch a user in some part of the world showing off his Adam in next few days..

    The correct title is “Shipment delayed to US and Europe”

    John, this is the last time I am visiting your reports of any kind, now i know you want traffic and only traffic, you seems to be doing everything possible to increase traffic, including half lies.

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    Thomas Lyons – January 11th, 2011 at 11:44 pm UTC
    I don’t understand what all of the fuss is about. My preorder date is still set to some time between the 15th and the 22nd. I wouldn’t expect it before that…

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    Knoc – January 12th, 2011 at 1:28 am UTC
    I expected this article to be thrown up once NI announced the delay.

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    Mark – January 12th, 2011 at 2:50 am UTC
    That’s a really sly post, John!

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    Amit – January 12th, 2011 at 9:21 am UTC
    Dudes,

    Hi guys,

    I just got a very important package from the mail. Yes its the beloved Adam. I will post up picks soon with the Adam. There is no FCC/CE markings since India does not need it. It is just has Rohan saids.

    This is the best day of my life, the Adam will change everything.

    Regards,

    Amit
    Banglore

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    priths – January 13th, 2011 at 7:22 am UTC
    @Amit

    Awsome!!!!!!!!

    Can you provide some review?

    Also can you post this on notion ink blog?

    thanks in advance…adam rocks \m/

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    Ganesh – January 13th, 2011 at 10:28 am UTC
    Amit, Hope you are not kidding. I didn’t see you posting this in the NI blog. Can you post some pictures and also let everyone know if you did get a tracking number before or DHL just dropped by your address suddenly with an ADAM??

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    aaron – January 12th, 2011 at 7:47 pm UTC
    Great to see so much support for the adam on this post. I’ve been on a mission from god to go around forum to forum and post to post and spread the good word of adam. I love it like a child. And its great to hear someone has received theirs. Awsome

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    Amit – January 13th, 2011 at 3:55 pm UTC
    NI support team contacted me and I cannot post the pictured till people in the US/Euorope get it.

    but I can give hands on since I own a ipad as well.

    I have pixel qi model and reading is much easy on eyes. no glare and is great in sun.

    I am typing this on the Adam. battery life is at least 2x of ipad. it is super fast as compared to the ipad.

    I am able to run angry birds smoother than ipad.

    sorry guys I am short on time.

    you guys will love your Adam too.

    Amit,
    banglore

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    Natasha – January 13th, 2011 at 4:34 pm UTC
    I can’t wait to hear more Amit! It will be great to have the comparison factor as well. I’m glad the Pixel Qi screen does not disappoint.

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    Adept – January 14th, 2011 at 12:16 pm UTC
    Stop lying. You can’t post pictures until others get the device? What is this a top-secret government program? LOL

    I have wanted this tablet so bad for the past year. But its beginning to look like a scam.

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    Jason Alexander – January 14th, 2011 at 3:07 pm UTC
    Probably not a scam but I bet units are only being built now. Paid for with pre-order money. No doubt “shipping will take 6-8″ weeks.

    Really Shady

    Albert Wertz – January 14th, 2011 at 4:56 pm UTC
    Amit, you purchased a product and have no obligations to NI, Without images you are just jerking people’s chains. The only way NI can keep you from posting images is if you are EAP.

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    Mistry – January 14th, 2011 at 7:50 pm UTC
    Amit… seriously? That’s biggest steaming pile of you-know-what I have seen. If you got the device, post the pics. If not, why bother commenting that you did? You’re ruining yours AND NotionInk’s credibility. And has Albert Wertz said… you have no obligation to NI on posting/not-posting the images. I am no law student, but I know a bit about what my right are as a consumer in India/US/Australia and couple other countries. So, if you have it.. be fearless.

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    Vinay – January 14th, 2011 at 8:13 pm UTC
    you seriously expect us to believe a steaming pile of bullcr@p like that? Oh my god I’m embarrassed to breath the same air you do.

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    vidikis – January 14th, 2011 at 5:59 pm UTC
    wait you have you adam and NI is telling you what you can and cannot do with it? what is posting a pic going to void the warranty? NO.

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    Thomas Lyons – January 14th, 2011 at 8:55 pm UTC
    I do not believe that the Adam is a scam. NI would not have gone to the trouble to get FCC approval in the first place if this were a scam. Furthermore, the FCC would have said something if they thought notion ink had no intention of releasing the device. Remember, this is the first product that this company has ever made. There are going to be slip-ups, and I doubt the FCC, in their “infinite wisdom” sees this device as a high priority. I pre-ordered it, and I will keep the faith.

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    Suresh – January 15th, 2011 at 1:19 am UTC
    Guys Amit is right. Even one of my cousins got an Adam, he live in Mumbai and sent me a video which he shot using his Adam. The video is very crisp. He ws suing that it looks so nice to watch HD videos in 1080p

    Suresh

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    Suresh – January 15th, 2011 at 1:20 am UTC
    Also the sniffer can recognize his 1TB external hard drive.

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  1443. Suresh – January 15th, 2011 at 1:19 am UTC
    Guys Amit is right. Even one of my cousins got an Adam, he live in Mumbai and sent me a video which he shot using his Adam. The video is very crisp. He ws suing that it looks so nice to watch HD videos in 1080p

    Suresh

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    Suresh – January 15th, 2011 at 1:20 am UTC
    Also the sniffer can recognize his 1TB external hard drive.

    reply

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  1445. Had a dream today morning wee hours..Rohan came out with a press statement saying :
    “Due to increasing raw materials costs, we may be forced to review the pricing of Adam”

    I was like, huh?? Is that a dream, or reality? They haven’t even launched it and thinking of price hike?

    (In a BIG dilemma if to spend my savings meant for my first DSLR, or put it for Adam purchase. I love photography, but want to be part of history too :()

  1446. Something occurred to me when a one of the videos talked about switching a second core on with more than 250mHz or something. Why doesn’t the tech page on the web site have a clock speed? If you look up the specs for the Tegra 250 it says UP TO 1ghz. I know everyone is saying 1ghz but has Notion Ink said that recently? I know they said a while back that that is what they were building but I don’t remember seeing anything definitive. Maybe I missed it.

  1450. I see alot of people here being alittle upset with the “NotionInk Hickups”

    You should know that there is a slight difference between the Indian and Western culture which may lead to confusion.

    Here in India you get into trouble if you tell people that something “is not possible” or “has gone wrong”, so people tend to tell you “no problem” even if it is a problem.
    Both parties may even be aware, that in fact “there is a problem”, but by telling “it is not” you are showing the other person that you are doing your best to get it right.

    In Western countries people are more sort of “straight shooter” and expect you to let the facts speak.
    So if “its a big mess” they tell you directly! Both parties may not like the situation but honor it when you speak it out, because with the facts at hand you can work to get it right.

    See, everyone just tries their best to get things right, but in different ways.

    So nobody gets me wrong: I have been living in the West and India for quite some time and this is just my personal experience.

    PEACE&LOVE
    Prema 🙂

  1453. congrats finally adam clears FCC starts shipping @engadget: Notion Ink Adam clears FCC, begins shipping ‘around Wednesday’ “http://engt.co/fAzxKW”

  1454. I know my action is pretty stupid. Noticing it too late. You know what, making people laugh about my $h!t. As long people are laughing, I don’t mind.

    Btw 5 hours and Im off to Beijing. Does anybody know about a good tablet I can buy in China?

    Thx.

    Greetz.

    Daryl.

  1455. 🙂 Daryl … my wishes with you.. don’t go with chinese model,if you can wait till now, wait for 1 more month.. Preorder 2 is around the corner as it’s evident from Rohan’s post today. After following this blog for long, I am sure you will not be satisfied with Chinese tablet or matter of sake from any other tablet 🙂

  1459. # 7 Genesis?
    # 6 Eden?
    # 5 Transreflective screen?
    # 4 Power consumption?
    # 3 speed -switchable implementation of dualcore?
    # 2?
    # 1???

  1460. EAP 2 has not received anything. EAP 2 people don’t know a single thing of whats happening. No mails, SDK or whatsoever. So i dont know what the EAP is about.

  1461. Yes, I know, but in the several videos from CES you could see a VERY matte screen. In one of the Saturday Udates he told us about the screen finish and eventually they decided for a semi-matte one. In the videos the screens shown were more than semi-matte.
    And anywhere he said that a screen protector film is included. Even if it would be a complicated task to fix the film without any bubbles or dust enclosures on such a large screen (it’s already hard to do this on a small phone screen) I would prefer to make the decision for or against the protector on my own.

  1462. I really undertand to Rohan. It must be soooo difficult to design, to bulid, to sell and to deliver a new tablet from scratch. I just want to point out this thought to the concerned family in this difficult days especially for those that had the lucky of being able to preorder.

  1463. Copied and pasted from Engadget:

    We don’t see it in the FCC database yet but Notion Ink’s charming Rohan Shravan just penned a post on the company’s blog with news that Adam has official clearance from the US government. That’s right, after several delays the tiny startup will finally condense its occassionally vapory molecules into a solid slab of shipping tablet starting “around Wednesday” after the hardware receives its FCC tattoo. A tablet good enough to earn a Best of CES 2011 honorable mention at an event absolutely flooded with tablets from a who’s who of consumer electronics companies. While our first impressions of the production unit were positive, we’re holding off on making a final judgement until we’ve had the chance to perform a full review. Having said that, Adam’s final NI3421A01 product code is so nerdy — 3421 are consecutive numbers in the Fibonacci series — that we’re almost tempted to place an order ourselves. Almost.

    [Thanks, John]

  1466. back2front: Very respectfully, you are wrong. To say that ‘…what CEO gives a crap about consumers…’ is a total lack of understanding on your part. Try running a business, with that that business philosophy in mind, in places like the US, where there is fair amount of competition, and trust me your company will be history, as fast as it came up.

  1467. Its called cpu frequency scaling and advanced power management. Tegra2 has 2 ARM Corex-A9 1Ghz cores as well as a slew of other things (video decoder, video encoder, audio processor, ultra low power gpu); corex a9 cores run from 250MHz (maybe less? i’d have to look up the specs) to 1Ghz, the higher you clock a processor, the more power it uses, so all laptops, tablets and mobile devices save power by scaling down the processor clock speed when its not in use, and then back up when the crunching power is required (this takes neglegeable time). Adam in addition to that uses cpu hotplugging, which enables them to unplug one of the cores when not needed conserving yet more power, but when the demand goes up, the second core is hot plugged in and full power of the device can be used.

  1468. Rohan, one big suggetions. Provide updates on timely fashion. look at where Samsung and many other companies fail at….

  1469. Hi folks:

    Try not to worry so much. Let Rohan have a few days off to rest. (Besides, the FCC is a pain in the butt – and they always take longer to do things, despite their promises!)

  1472. Are these pics from the production model? If yes, why does the EXIF data say: “NVIDIA, Development Platform” instead of “Notion Ink, Adam”?

  1474. I think Notion Ink will be a lost case if this trend of uncertainty continues!

    Apple is the market leader for a reason, sad that start ups don’t learn from others mistakes/successes.

  1476. why is this not accepted………:( is this somethng yu want to filter from the crowd……:(

  1477. Actually, I have two complaints about point-n-shoot cameras (now that I come back here to see what became of my comment, wow, stuff gets buried fast)

    autofocus is easy to trick all the time and automatic zoom is also easily tricked.

    I agree macro mode is good, that is an interesting idea for a tablet.

  1478. Dear Fans, Followers, Freaks, Lovers, Friends, Worshipers, Pessimist, Optimists, Dreamers, and Many others too numerous to mention.

    I have been trying to understand how a electronic device called Adam has brought so many different types of people to the same place..We come here from all over the world, however I really don’t think our national origins have much to do with it. I guess it is the nature of a blog that creates this phenomena. The subjects discussed here must have a great deal of interest to those involved. I have been tempted to spend less time on the blog. To just sit and patiently wait for my Adam to arrive. Here I am again though, reading, and for who knows how many times, writing. Perhaps it is partly because a need for a way to pass time during the waiting for Adam. Adam is not in our hands, but a number of us have put down a nice little chunk of cash so that we may be one day be holding him. We have invested. Another group of us are eagerly waiting to do the same. Still others are waiting on the fence. To see how it all pans out.

    We must know that Adam consists of a number of components that were not designed by Notion Ink. Different designers and manufactures have produced the vast majority of the parts that make Adam. The shape and style of the outer case are of Notion Ink origin and the choices of which components were used were made by NI. The basic operating system (Android) comes from another source. Eden the UI and Genesis are from Notion Ink. Decisions about connectivity were made by Notion Ink and directly effected by the components that they chose to use. Please don’t misconstrue what I’m saying as a belittlement of Notion Ink in any way. Notion Ink is to take enormous credit for bringing all the pieces together that make Adam, Adam.

    How long will Adam the device, be a part of your life? Will he last two years, before you feel the need to upgrade? Perhaps to Adam 2 or maybe by then Adam 3? Will Notion Ink be still doing business two years from now? I am hoping so and think most here would say they hope so. We all should be aware that 90% of all new business’s fail within five years. Most here would love for Notion Ink to be the exception. There are many who have developed a true sense of loyalty to Notion Ink. Some because the youngsters starting the company are from the country they live in and love. Some because they want to see the little guy show the big guys that they can do a better job. I’m am underdog supporter in most cases myself The reality is for, Notion Ink, this is going to be an uphill climb. I think a lot of the reason for the second guessing, trepidation, and frustration here, stems from the fear of Notion Ink’s failure that lurks in the unconscious and conscious minds of so many that frequent the blog. Most are truly intelligent enough to know the odds.

    You now may ask, what are you driving at with this little essay, and so many words that sound negative. I just want us to be aware of where we are in the process. What we have chosen to be a part of by being involved.. What kind of odds in general that Notion Ink is up against. Why they must have a dream to follow to have any hope of beating the odds. They need a solid work ethic and open minded thinking to go with that dream. Why if we want to to help Notion Ink succeed that we must hang in there and try to muster a small bit (Mustard Seed) of faith. We have to understand this company, Notion Ink, must learn to walk before it can run. You all have been small children near your starting point. You all have fallen in your first attempts to walk. Sometimes the Adult in your life had to put you back on your feet. Coax you to try again. Now, we here, can be supportive or walk away. No one is forcing us to stay. There is nothing wrong with a good heart felt criticism. There is nothing wrong in asking for an explanation. After all there will be issues. All here on the blog and the other forums can prove to be a great help to one another and Notion Ink. Especially after the Adam’s arrive. We will then discover Eden the software and learn more of Adam the hardware. All the early adopters are much in the roll of beta testers whether they like it or not. We can be helpful or we can just be a crying bunch of complainers. I am in no way saying the fate of Adam and Notion Ink rests in our hands. Notion Ink’s choices, honesty, hard work, and luck will be the biggest determining factors. How they communicate with buyers, and support their products will mean the most. The spirit in which they deal with us the consumer will have a lot to do with how much we have to do with supporting them. In the end the real pressure to produce is Notion Ink’s. We can always go somewhere else if we choose.

    With all of this said, I am totally behind and supportive of Notion Ink and Adam their product. Unless given a damn good reason not to be. I will speak up if I think something is wrong. I will give praise when something is right. I will dream with and follow that dream as long as it is a dream worth following.

    Today I have a bit of praise to give. My estimated shipping date of February has been moved to January 31st.

  1479. Just saw that the status is set to be shipped on 29th Feb. Dont understand how the booking was open to everyone and suddenly the shipping is 20days late for the 2nd batch. Not to forget that we dont even know the reason.

    I am a big fan of NI & ADAM but my buying experience has suffered greatly. offlate, I feel NI team is holding back information. It now looks more like what Apple does then Team NI.

    Anyone from Australia who is scheduled to receive it before 29th?

  1480. I am from Australia, I know that there are plenty of them from the region, we KNOW english and are active members of the forum, unfortunately, non of us have ADAM to unbox, take a video and post it.

    You missed the point 4, which is NI is shipping ADAM by Sea to everyone. That will take sometime.

    I’ve no problem waiting, have waited a year, but no communication or update is not how Rohan has been conducting this forum.

  1483. For those of you lucky enough to get your adam today. Answer me these 3 quick questions:

    1) How does it feel in your hand, holding it, on your lap, etc?
    2) How is typing on the “keys” compared to other touchscreen you have used?
    3) One first impression disappointment so far (nothing is perfect)?

    For number 3, please leave out the update issue and power cable issue.

    Thanks!

  1487. “http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adams-email-app-code-origins-in-question-25128252/”

    Notion Ink Adam’s email app code origins in question

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