The Notion Ink Adam tablet thing, my nominee for the vapourware of the year award, is finally taking pre-orders, but isn’t giving out a shipping date. For what it’s worth, I’m in love with the interface screenshots (a custom one on top of Android 2.3). In all, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Well, I agree that it’s vaporware of the year in sense that it certainly won’t ship this year, but looking at their blog for some times… It looks like a very interesting project, and Rohan has a lot to say and show for someone who works on thin air.
They don’t give an exact shipping date, but the order link clearly states “Ships 6 to 8 weeks”. That gives you from jan 17 to through the first week of feb. I have seen less specified dates on pre-orders from other firms, like HTC, Nokia and Apple.
We can see from the 6-8 weeks shipping date that these guys are constrained by the same laws of physics as the official Android 3.0 tablet developers. It just seems like Adam is happening sooner because of the development transparency.
Before this is in the wild we’ll know all about its competition. Don’t buy yet.
Android 3.0? By February next year we’ll hardly have the first Android 2.3 gadgets.
The only way to have 3.0 earlier is a development shift (Google working in parallel on a smartphone (2.x) and a tablet (3.x) branch).
yes. this is old news.