Notion Ink

Pain till Valentine

Posted in Uncategorized by Rohan Shravan on January 30, 2011

Hello there,

All of you who pre-ordered and helped Notion Ink start building the community must have received an email today. One email is on the confirmation of shipping and the other one is on the delay. Those who are in the later group (5.31%) are angry as I could see their comments and the emails.

It is extremely unfortunate that we are in such a situation. We could not have expected the accidental damage of the touch screen shipment, and that too just days before Chinese New Year eve. Even though the damage was to a part of shipment, we cancelled all because in such a case you cannot predict the defective and working screens manually. Our friends at Sintek requested their employees to miss their New Year week and instead manufacture the lost numbers. Most of them agreed.

Blogs are not easily accessible in China, and these employees don’t speak English. But their mangers do and know how to read your reactions, comments, thoughts on the peoject and are extremely passionate about Adam like you, and probably this is why they were able to convince their employees to work for you.

You shouldn’t go through this useless pain, but there is a whole group at Notion Ink and at our manufacturing plants putting in all the efforts at delivering you Adams. You have came this far with us, I will request for little more patience. We are listening and working on your suggestions at support at notionink dot com or preordersupport at notionink dot com.

Regards

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  1. dwarf4242 said, on February 14, 2011 at 00:33

    It’s a Sunday afternoon, and I have nothing better to do than read this blog ;-)

    WOW! It looks like a 50/50 crowd! Half are pissed and half are giving wonderful support!

    That’s pretty good of a web based group! Usually the nay-sayers outnumber the gentle folk!

    One thing to remember for those folks screaming for a retail experience: the whole group of us only represents about 25% of the buying public, and those with any technical background are less than 12% of the rest of the world, so don’t expect to have much leverage when matched against the rest of the buying public ;-)

    Luck…

  2. joshuabaskin said, on February 8, 2011 at 10:05

    It sounds like there are screen problems galore (Bangalore
    ?! Sorry, could not help myself), both with delivered and nondelivered.
    There is competition from POV’s Mobii tablet.
    Goes for the same price. Tegra. Cap. screen. Froyo. Bona fide co. with track record in
    Video chips. Stable platform. Android marketplace loaded.
    Tomorrow I decide to pull the trigger and cancel if Austrian Ditech will deliver to USA.
    The baby ain’ ready to be born. I don’t want a product that is not ready.
    Mobii 10 inch. Dig it.

    • borismedia said, on February 8, 2011 at 10:17

      It looks like the only US retailer only sells the netbooks:
      “http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/CategoryProductList.jsp?cat=Browse+By+Brand:Point+of+View’

  3. Himanshu jain said, on February 8, 2011 at 08:43

    Will this fit adam?
    “http://cgi.ebay.in/Protective-Case-w-Built-in-Bluetooth-Keyboard-iPad-/380314630177?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_203&hash=item588c84b821″

    • bikramdas said, on February 8, 2011 at 08:55

      himanshu, did you check out the micro sd card URL from infibeam

    • Himanshu jain said, on February 8, 2011 at 09:07

      Yeah Bikram. All are class 2. Was waiting for any class 4/class 6 link. or i will buy class 2 only.

    • raja52 said, on February 8, 2011 at 11:56

      @Himanshu,
      If you are looking for class 2, infibeam has 16gb at Rs1742/-(Sandisk). I have written to infibeam for higher classes.

    • Himanshu jain said, on February 8, 2011 at 12:01

      Thanks Raja. Do let me know if they revert back. I am also planing to write a mail to transcend online store about it.

    • borismedia said, on February 8, 2011 at 09:27

      It looks like it could have difficulty over Adam’s battery.

    • Himanshu jain said, on February 8, 2011 at 10:53

      Yeah seems so. Thanks boris. Have you foundsomething solid

    • borismedia said, on February 8, 2011 at 12:15

      I’m keeping an eye on the case from NotionInkHacks. I am still on the fence about what kind of keyboard I want to use – one with or without the trackpad. NotionInkHacks have mentioned that a future version of their case may come with the keyboard. May settle on a sleeve until more tablet accessories make their way to the market this year. It is the year of the tablet, right?!

    • Himanshu jain said, on February 8, 2011 at 12:40

      @Boris oh yea. Actually I kinda liked Albertz keyboard with trackpad but it was too big. In India I was not able to find any keyboard with track pad. So better wait as it is the year of Tablets indeed :)

  4. Chebbinator said, on February 8, 2011 at 07:56

    test

    • bikramdas said, on February 8, 2011 at 08:06

      1. Are u planning on some big post
      2. thinking that you’ll go to page 18
      3. Are you testing the Adam
      4. Are you asking Rohan to test the Adam before Pre Order 2

      cannot write anymore junk ;)

  5. RoryH said, on February 8, 2011 at 06:33

    A line from David Frost reflects NI rather well:

    “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

    Keep up the great work!

  6. wally west said, on February 8, 2011 at 05:33

    Whoa what is this 17 or 18 pages of comments. If we don’t get another Rohan post until the 14th were likely to crash through the 4000 maybe 5000 comment barrier. Big numbers are cool, but posting has become a pain in the you know what.

    There is where an official fourm would make so much difference. You could refer to old posts send private messages to fellow members with ease. It sure would be nice!!!! Hopefully we will get to that point. Imagine being able to look for particular subjects!

    I have 8 days until my Adam is shipped. Time is crawling like a snail. The very best to all as our wait continues.

  7. Diviash said, on February 8, 2011 at 04:55

    So it seems more and more is being posted on the web about Notion Ink…

    check out this article on Slashgear.com

    “http://www.slashgear.com/trouble-at-notion-ink-ui-director-leaves-adam-battery-issues-surface-07131407/”

    Any comments Rohan & Co.

    Is this some dirty tricks vendetta against Notion Ink or should we concerned?

    • Chebbinator said, on February 8, 2011 at 07:17

      Look. Andre is a awesome design guy. He did his job in designing the Eden usage pattern. I think NI can run with this tail wind for some time by writing software to Andre’s design. I don’t think this is a major blow or anything. I would be very worried about NI if Rohit (of course Rohan as well) quit. Andres guidance can continue to take Adams UI for some time.

    • suicideclown1 said, on February 8, 2011 at 07:18

      I dont understand all these people complaining about battery life… They need to install advance task killer and kill everything every time they boot. As it is now, Adam loads many apps upon startup (i show this in one of my upcoming video’s I have not linked here yet, but can be found on my youtube channel). That is also one of the reasons I downloaded droidwall. You can save tons on your battery life if you limit access to web to programs you dont want to pull ads (etc). while they are running in the background. This helped a ton with my phone. Also another tip is to turn off the GPS when you are not using it (easy shortcut for this through a launcherpro widget, which I also show in my video) Wifi can be killed if not in use, GPS, Lessen backlight, close all background apps, etc… or I could take the apple approach and say if you want the battery to last longer, stop using it as much…

    • Dennis said, on February 8, 2011 at 08:58

      Just a note…I have downloaded apps on my Nexus One (android) only to find my battery life suddenly drain away. I finally found it to be a weather app that was the culprit. My point would be…maybe there is not a battery problem.

  8. boybarbados said, on February 8, 2011 at 03:05

    part 2-of video review of Adam in German.

  9. Diviash said, on February 8, 2011 at 02:58

    Have you all seen the article on notioninkhacks.com

    “http://notioninkhacks.com/index.php/2011/02/07/restoring-the-faith-with-notion-ink-and-the-adam/”

    • Diviash said, on February 8, 2011 at 03:09

      although Notion Ink have nothing to prove to such an individual I can’t wait for the day this guy has to eat his words.

      Notion Ink has already shown they are able to make a quality product.

      I supposes the age old saying “you can’t please all of the people all of the time” spring to mind…

  10. boybarbados said, on February 8, 2011 at 02:55

    Part-2 of video review of Adam in German.

  11. boybarbados said, on February 8, 2011 at 02:51

    Review of Adam Pixel Qi in German, a very nice video. Part-1

  12. boybarbados said, on February 8, 2011 at 02:48

    Review of Adam Pixel Qi in German, a very nice video.

  13. Luis Flores said, on February 8, 2011 at 02:41

    I hope that when we get the Forum we get a section only for apps we would like to see developped!

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