Head over to Conclave at 9PM IST

[Update: All PQ devices are sold out now! Thanks for your awesome support!

Update 2: Check the first page of the conclave post again.]

Hello there!

Head-over to Conclave at 9PM IST. Update is ready, we are just waiting for Beansoft to push their app (that’s why 9).

We are also proud to announce that MathPac+ Notion Ink Adam Custom Edition is now available as a trial version exclusively for Notion Ink Adam Users!

Designed by MobileCaltronics, MathPac+ Notion Ink Adam Custom Edition is a comprehensive, accurate and precise mathematics/statistics package, complete with graphing, that provides all of the functionalities one expects from their required grapher.

It offers on-screen help, formulas, definitions, video tutorials, and every function needed for your class. The design is “Student Centric” because it was designed specifically with the student in mind! It even has built in intuitive navigation similar to the best known graphing calculator so the user can readily adapt common instructions found in today’s text-books (or given in the classroom) directly to the APP.

On conclave you will find steps to improve the speed of the device as well. Also with the help of TabletRoms team, GPS should be available to all of you faster than we thought. Special thanks to Andy and MrGuy! Actually GPS is still working at the Kernel level, you can check the NEMA data from /dev/ttyHS3, but the Android framework is not able to load the GPS library. Google has not exposed the GPS handling part in Android, rather have given the interface defined in gps.h and all ODMs has to develop drivers according to this interface, plus the added difference in 2.2 and 3.0.

We will continue to push the updates so you all get the best out of your Adam!

With Warm Regards

Rohan Shravan

Moving On!

Greetings Everyone!

First an announcement:

Beansoft is a young, innovative software company. It’s main purpose is to make applications which optimizes the usability of mobile phones and tablets. Their goal is to meet the individual needs and wishes of as many customers as possible.

Last year, Beansoft launched a phone and tablet keyboard with a revolutionary new layout; a split keyboard which makes typing much easier on tablets and phones. By listening to its users Thumb Keyboard was further improved, leading to a complete, multifunctional and very flexible keyboard. Beansofts successful keyboard concept has rapidly become the example for other software and hardware companies and is becoming a new standard for the tablet.

Today Notion Ink is proud to announce its collaboration with Beansoft to release a Notion Ink Adam SE Thumb Keyboard. All users who upgrade their devices to next version will be able to use the trial version of the Thumb Keyboard.

Now some news on the sales:

• We are opening sales now for our Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Russian customers. There will be one extra step for the Russians, since it is really complicated to ship anything to Russia.  We would like to know what your preferred shipment mode is, and then calculate and inform you the time required to ship the products (The 2 widest parts in Russia are 5000 miles apart!) before you can click on the button “buy”.
• Operations at Australian and German Service Centers have begun. Germany will also look after other European Countries from now on.
• Indian customs fared better this time by releasing products faster. (If you have any issue in tracking your shipment, please write to support immediately).

Now let’s take a look at our new boot screen:

      Honestly, the HC work is heavily inspired and built upon what the folks at TabletRoms have done. You will also find elements of BeastRom. What we know is that Honeycomb will not be released to the public. There is some work required before they can share it, and that is going to happen only when Ice-Cream Sandwich is out.

      This means, that like theirs, even our work is in beta. What you will get is a fast and stable OS, and you should be able to enjoy all the apps. On Conclave, along with the image, we will also upload simple tips so that you can run your devices faster. However, those who want to enjoy pure GPS and the Camera, will have to be a little patient.

      If you compare any Android tablet out there (doesn’t matter quad-core or even hexa-core if it exists) with the rival iPad, specially when you move stuff on the home screen (icons on iPad and widgets on HC), you will always find HC lagging. As the number of elements increase, or if you come back to the home screen after running even moderately memory intensive applications, you can see the shutters/lags in the movement. We have tried to delve deeper to understand why this happens, and it looks like as long as Garbage Collectors exists, this is going to be an issue (not touching the controversial topic of using the GPU for the UI). Garbage Collector’s can take anywhere between 7-500ms to do its work. We are expecting at-least 20 frames per second which means, you can loose upto 10 frames when we move things. This was one of the reason you could see the lag in the Eden UI Panels.

      Today I hate Android (for its conflicting free nature) as much as I love it (again for its conflicting free nature). But if you have seen documentaries like Objectified you’d know that designing a good product involves doing extremely large number of simple things the right way, or simply put, in the details. Lets consider a case where you want to  buy a  DSLR. You would probably do a search for say “Canon vs Nikon”. However, in the tablet world today, there exist no 2 right comparisons, with one company or product leading everyone else combined. This must be changed. We are on it, we know what to do, but we also know that its going to be an extremely tough and brutal fight. We thank you for your support and hope that you enjoy this wonderful journey with us.

With Warm Regards,

Rohan Shravan.

Shipping Starts

Hello Everyone!

Quick update for our new customers, shipping has started right on time. All of you should receive emails within next 3-4 hours on confirmation.

The beta update on time and you should be able to play with it soon.

Will soon update with more information, so stay tuned!

Warm Regards

Rohan Shravan

 

 

Yet another update and Order Rounds

[Update: By Last Round of Order, we didn't mean that this is these are the last orders. We have certain phases in ordering, and we are nearing the end of this phase, hence the word last. Apologies for confusion

Regards]

Hello Everyone,

Seems people faced some issues in the last image (broken 3G). Please update your Adams to the latest images (pushed today) which has resolved 3 major issues (3G, Bluetooth Mac Address and N support).

Also we have entered into the last round of sales. All those who have registered with us earlier should have received emails from NotionInk. After waiting for them to finish up ordering, Adam is now available for new registrations: at: http://store.notionink.com/subscribe.php

Waiting for 27th June like me?

Warm Regards

Rohan Shravan

New Update!

Hello there!

There is a new update awaiting for you all! Click on “Update Adam” and you will see version: 20030611 waiting for you!

Some (A8-9) users reporting sleep/wake up issue which is fixed in this one along with a new build for Kindle App.

Warm Regards

Rohan Shravan