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[30th Jan: Adam on its way, emails are being sent out]
We saw FCC publishing their break down of Adam, and to be frank even we were little surprised by how they tore apart the pieces and then made it look like, that's how it is assembled. But the more surprising fact was that few blogs published this information with a statement "too many hand soldered wires'.
Try finding few or one wire which is hand soldered yourself in those images. The wires you see have a snap joint and are used for 3G or Wi-Fi antenna connection. Nearly all the connectivity devices are designed like this (open your laptop to see how antennas are connected. One thing which differentiates Adam's design with other is how the Camera is integrated. You need a 185 degree swivel function, and for that you need an assembly design which can ensure 20,000 usage cycles. NVidia's whole SOC is 75x75mm. We have the liberty to expand the motherboard as much as we want, because even the batteries are on the cylindrical edge, and that's the reason you see lot's of free space (which by the way is good for convection).
But one thing is for sure, it isn't a beautiful assembly, something which see in mature players, but we are building more muscle, thanks to your co-operation! 
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Dear All,
Few updates:
- We have started working on the Honeycomb and looking into how soon can we offer the update to you all! For this to be achieved faster and smoother, we would need a lot of support from NVidia, and we are looking forward to it!
- The second & third phase of shipments will start on time.
- Little bad and good news, one of our shipments for the touch screens got damaged while transportation which is going to effect a fraction of our customers. To make things worse, its New Year in China and every manufacturing plant is closed. But our touch-screen partners, Sinotek (also known as Sintek), will stay open for the Chinese New Year and re-manufacture all the remaining touch screens to deliver. I am making this special note, because we are really overwhelm at their response and want to thank all the employees at their firm who are going to miss their New Year celebrations and home visits.
- K9 and Notion Ink Mail’d team will collaborate for the future email client developments and will be working on the Honeycomb platform. The project will again be open sourced and be shared back with few Notion Ink’s IP under Apache 2 licence.
- Source for other Notion Ink’s Application: If you are looking for the code for any specific apps on the Adam, you can directly write to developers at notionink dot com and they will add you in the priority list! All the softwares developed by Notion Ink are open source and will be shared with the community soon. As far as the SDK goes, we are migrating from 2.2-2.3 to Honeycomb and once the platform is stable, will be shared with the developers.
- We have compiled the list for the next stage of order, and broken the process into 2. First you will receive the email on the purchase availability. Then, a confirmation would be sent on the product chosen’s availability. And then the customers can proceed for the transaction.
We have received a lot of emails from our customers on the Adam, and we really appreciate your response on the same. Some of you reported few bugs which are now fixed in the next updates. Looking forward to hearing you all!
Warm Regards
Rohan Shravan
My shipment date also moved from 9-Jan to 5-22 Jan to 29-Jan to 14-Feb. One more unhappy customer Rohan. I lost faith in your blog posts.
Guys, it’s a tough cookie to swallow, ok.
A major disappointment, don’t get me wrong here.
On the other hand, all kwew they were taking part in a new business’ Pre Order.
All who followed this blog, should undersand the learn-while-we-devolop thing here.
It took three years to develop, and we all invested in that development.
Rohan mentioned January 8th (Slow n steady…):
‘With a good product you can kill whole army, but with a dream you can build Nations. 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!’
I guess that still counts.
A quick Revolution or a evolution (which asks for a long breath); the world’s changing thanks to NI.
Im sure you are one among the few who got confirmation email on shipment. As I said now you guys will talk loads of shits. I dont wanna be rude, just shupt up and get out of here.
Im frustrated, irritated, annoyed, disappointed.
Hi sam,
I understand that you are feeling like what you said; I am too, bumped and feeling rather like you for facing another delay to the 14th.
But perhaps, we could be more courteous around here.
I know just bursted out of frustration. When I recall those days of sleepless night (even yesterday slept around 4 am waiting to read that email of confirmation) but in the end delay. Im too attached to adam and really unable to accept the delay.
I’m sorry Karen didnt mean to be rude but it was instinct reaction.
No hard feelings whatsoever
Actually sam, i’m still waiting for an invite.
So my chance for an Adam is also backing off.
I am a Dec. 10 preorder customer of the LCD Adam….Just got the Feb. 14th delay email. I am utterly disappointed that I ever started following this product and pre-ordered. I am sick of all this BS, and sick of these discussion boards because they actually are the sole cause of all the build-up and let-down I have experienced in the last month.
I am taking a break from reading anything about NI on their blog for the next 2-3 weeks, and I will not visit notioninkfan, notioninkhacks, notioninking, etc anymore until I receive my Adam (if that day ever comes). I am going to wait solely on a confirmation email for shipping hopefully by Feb. 14-16th from TNT. I suggest everyone that got this delay email do the same, and just keep your mind away from this company for a few weeks to ease the frustration.
Maybe the Adam will be delivered by Memorial Day?!
Goodbye NI and all other blogs until mid-Feb.
-Dennis
so you still believe it will be shipped Feb 14th? I appreciate your optimisitic thinking.
@Dennis, I also deciided to take a break when my preorder was not possible because of the Mastercard issue but after I regained my psych equilibrium I am o’k with it. I see that everyything hhas worked out for the best as I follow all the blogs I am vicariously learning and see that we are all in the same boat and can learn so much from the dedicated bloggers who have received theirs and are busy making software/hardware correction suggestions t mention the software. i HAVE DETACHED FROM THE DISSAPOINTMENT AND STILL EAGERLY AWAIT THE 2ND PRE ORDER. Rohan pls note that I have allready requested my order to be placed and only await payment instructions for the PQ, WiFi version. Best regards and practice patience.
Mine to … from February 2011 to 31st Jan to 14 February ….
I’m sorry but NI and Rohan got time to fix some problems.
What’s strange is that i don’t receive any mail, is it normal ?
nothing is normal here tht is wat i understood
There better be compensation for this. Rohan, at least give us faster shipping, free case voucher for when they are made or something, refund on shipping, etc. All of your followers are pissed off, you must at least do some compensation to make up for this.
I’m sure there will be an extra wink and a hug for all of us at the end of this…
warmest regards!
Now those who got email about shipment will give loads of explanation and say keep calm , cool. all is fine because they got their shipped. I know these same bunch of people were raising voice when there was no information.
@sam: that is factually incorrect. Yes it is true that those who got information that theirs is shipped won’t bark about that anymore, but if you check the posts, the people that now reported that they did received a status of ‘shipped’ include both some that stayed supportive of NI in the past as well as some that were very ‘critical’.
adam is really intoxicating. we are all like junkies with out a fix.
Regarding the soldered wires, I am sure that one cannot turn down a product just for soldering wires instead of using connectors. I have owned many consumer devices and few of which, which never had loos soldered wires as adam, getting damages easily and ones with wire solders (or jumpers, which is how they are called) living a healthy life even today.
What is problem, the shippment date change to 14th Feb. How can I complain you fucking service.
@ Rohan,
pl. take ur time, but whenever I get my Adam ( it can be ADAM 2), it should be a solid product. no complaints form my side.
What is problem, the shippment date change to 14th Feb.
Will they make unconditional replacement if the Feb 14th shipped adam is defective? that is the reason cited for delay. I strongly believe it is biased decision on whom should get first and who should be delayed.
I being indian know indian mentality. The delay for few is not based on order time or based on active paritipation here. it is other reason and I can assume that for now. There is no response from them for my email.
That sounds like an unfounded accusation. I say that being a somewhat active participant here as well, and one of the unlucky 9->15-22->29->Feb 14 batch. Yes, it sucks that it is delayed, and that NI didn’t have the courtesy to be more upfront about it, but there it is. If you don’t like it, cancel it and move on. If not, suck it up and deal with it. I am.
deal+
I think in total there are probably at most only around 100 Adams actually with owners.
Take a look around the unofficial NI supporting websites/forums and the same names, the same video demos and pics are on all of them.
There are production issue(s) and it can’t just be broken screens and/or Chinese New Year.
IF this is the case and remains so then Adam is dead in the water – no genesis, no support, no financial backing. etc.
If I am wrong please could someone who still has 29th January as the shipping date reply to this post.
Just woke up to this. Let me just say, mine has shipped and TNT has already contacted me. For those of you who think my view would be biased bec of this… no not really bec I always give it to you straight.
We were provided with information on a damaged shipment of tough screens. We were told everything is on track and the 2/3rd shipments would go out fine bec the Chinese workers were willing to give up their holiday for us. here are a couple of things that could have gone wrong…
1- the manufacturer of the touch screens may not have been willing to work through the holiday to get us the product
2- the manufacturer discovered the device was not as easy, as previously thought, to take apart and replace the defective product. a reworked product has to be flawless, nothing chipped, scratched, or dented.
Notion ink Hacks showed us that there are small tab clips that are easily broken when taking the devices apart, but that only a few are needed to be put back together, so it still holds fine even if a few are broken. This being said, if anything is scratched or broken in the process… that tablet now becomes refurbished and not NEW. This was probably something Rohan didnt think about and had to go back on his word and it resulted in those people being delayed.
it is logical really, and he could have explained it this way if it really was the problem. He sent e-mails and he seems to be trying a little harder with communication.
everyone’s emotions are based on their point of view. mine may be skewed. I dont know if I would be singing a different tune if I was delayed… but I certainly would not be canceling my order… just wait and if you dont like the product, sell it on ebay.
That’s great albert, I am pleased for you, genuinely, but i’ve said it before that the “50″
that were moved from 9th January should have been priority, we deserve it, it was NI’s mistake and we ordered earlier than most.
BUT, Fairness does not seem to be a word in NI’s vocabulary.
Were you part of the 50 that had their shipment date continually pushed back? Which model did you order?
PixQi 3g, yes I was part of the 9th->15/22->29th
I really happy for you to be finally receiving your Adam. I won’t cancel or resell my yet once more postponed Adam. Disappointment when experienced over and over is a rather unpleasant emotion.
What I was hoping for was getting this tablet in front of the CEO and development team of our company. We have a software out on the Blackberry, Symbian, Ipod/Iphone/Ipad and Android devices. The developers have focused their major reworking of the software for the Apple platforms and have let all the other platforms languish. Decisions have been made to split the developer over two platforms Mac desktop and Android. The Android team is the less qualified developers. Putting a worthy Android tablet before them might have influenced their decision on who goes to what project.
If the delay is based on active participation, I have been following this blog for a year though i have not been aggressive or made too much noise. How did he even base his decision delaying some orders just reading some comment? all b**s**t
I have also been knocked back for the fourth time.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,
Rohan is a master at being economical with the truth.
When he said a fraction, what did he mean? nine tenths or only one fiftieth? I suspect it’s the former (90%) rather than just 2%. There was a clue when he said that the workers were having to give up their celebrations of the New Year to man the production lines to build new screens. When you consider that most companies can produce thousands of screen in a day it did seem strange that the work force had to give up their holidays for just a few screens. But this is no way to run a Company, why not state the full facts rather than vague statements, that can be misinterpreted.
All we have ever asked for is the TRUTH.
Rohan is a master at being economical with the truth — otw know as a liar
Why have a company miss their Chinese New Year just to deliver the shipments still 2 weeks later than the last delay we all experienced? Does it really matter if you miss the date anyway? I would rather take the appropriate amount of time and resources to correct the issues if the original, I mean 2nd, no 3rd ship date cannot be contained with this. Let the people have their holiday, as working through it still does not deliver out product on time. It’s quite puzzling as well to just be notified of the delay the day after the proposed shipping date. If the change in dates was going to move by 2 weeks, it certainly just wasn’t discovered within Notion Ink today! On top of it all, I really can’t understand the update to this post “[30th Jan: Adam on its way, emails are being sent out]“.
Another misleading post for, as it seems, a large amount of pre-order consumers. Just be honest.
so many of you guys complaining, You come on here shouting “I wished I’d never ordered”, I wish you hadn’t too. Your clearly not the right type of people to be early adopters.
I understand some of you have long delays but are you really surprised ?
Well to be honest I am a bit surprised. Especialy since our money went from my bank account to theirs weeks ago. I didn’t expect to be risking capitol on not even getting the product. So yes to be honest I am a bit surprised. Especialy with the poor comunication lately from notion inks part.
It’s not the delays it’s the out an out lack of truthful information, and downright amateurism that pisses us off.
how many did you buy? and how long are you willing to wait to be a “early adopter”
@Anish
I haven’t bought one yet , im far too used to this sort of thing happening with many suppliers i deal with, i will wait till the issues are sorted out,
Now it seem that fraction is becoming major chunk of shipment. Any way Now I am expecting Adam 2 in place adam 1
Mine is delayed to February 14th buffer included (I do not know what that means)! Whatever, I think it’s better in this way I can opt out for motorola xoom or even palm webos tablet.
Buffer included means it can be shipped before 14th also.
Well I got my notification and my adam is on its way, Yahooooooo…
Seems that NI selected the deliveries basis the active participation to the WP- NI blog (Not on the basis of Order date-time), the stats by now show that all silent readers/ followers are screwed till feb 14.
agree wholeheartedly… time to be active on every website daily complaining until the damn thing shows up on my site… Rohan count my numbers today… will post on crunchgear…engadget, cnet, ni hack, ni addicts… all y the end of the day. I just got off a night shift and am so riled can’t go to sleep
The later we got the pad, the much we lost. I don’t need to choose this if we get it that late.
Really really not a small fraction, that should be 99% instead.
Some many complaint above.
marketing 101: there are 4 types of customers:
C1:apostles: satisfied, loyal customers who spread the good word
C2:defectors: erstwhile apostles who defect (very dangerous group) and spread the bad word
C3:mercenaries: satisfied customers who show no loyalty. trend, fashion, deal oriented
C4:hostages: captive customers due to monopoly position
in the current case of ni, the C1 is dwindling and C2 is booming. i’m in C4 because adam has PQ and awesome ergonomics etc. nothing else comes close so far and i really need a pq screen to read financial reports instead of printing them.
yes probably i will categorize myself under C2. I was so proud to say to fellow indians in US about adam. Even talked about its superior design and thinking in making the tablet to non-indians. Now i feel ahsamed when they question about these startup company commitment.
hey guys i too have received the same mail of 14th feb, i really feel bad about all this may be we will get a mailon 14thfeb sayings your adam is getting really older day by day so he will be sent after another two months………wht say guys notionink is testing are nerve ha