Among the most appealing products shown at CES 2010 last month, there was Notion Ink’s Adam tablet, a true rival of the Apple iPad, if not better than the gadget created at Cupertino. Adam is an Android slate based on the latest NVIDIA Tegra chipset and using Pixel Qi’s low power display. The device is pictured below and the demo at CES 2010 involved only a prototype at that time.
A comparison between the iPad and Adam is predictable at this point and it seems that the Notion Ink device is better, as far as the battery life is concerned, thanks to the Tegra low power solution and the Pixel Qi display. Also, thanks to the NVIDIA chipset, Adam is able to output 1080p HD video, while the Apple tablet sticks with 576p/480p via an optional component cable.
Apparently, Notion Ink wants to release two versions of the Adam tablet, one with a 12.9mm waistline and the other one 11.6mm thick. Meanwhile, the iPad is quite fat, with its 13.4mm case and speculations about the Adam tablet go on, mentioning a better price than the one of Apple’s gadget. As a final plus for the tablet shown in action below, we’ve found that it runs Flash, supports Ebooks and comics and it’ll get its own app store.
Notion Ink also plans to run an Apps Competition, with huge prizes, in order to draw developers to their platform.
While many thought at first that Apple’s tablet will be called the iTablet, the device was announced as the iPad. However, the iTablet is not dead yet and it’s a tablet made by UK company X2 Computing and quite a promising device to be honest. You can see it in the image below and know that it’s scheduled to ship in April 2010.
The iTablet comes with a 10.2 inch widescreen TFT display or a 12.1 inch widescreen XGA, with a 1024 x 768 pixels resolution, both touchscreens. Multitouch is said to be optional, whatever that means and we learn that the device’s specs list also includes a 1.6 GHz processor, up to 250GB of HDD space and built-in stereo speakers.
Three USB ports will also do the job and there’s also WiFi support among the features, as well as Bluetooth, HDMI output and a 1.3 megapixel webcam, plus 3G support. The tablet will be available in white, grey, pink, blue, red and many more colours for a yet unmentioned price.
Yinlips created a pretty interesting device, that copies the design of the iPad and packs a 6 inch E-Ink display instead of the standard LCD. This cloned tablet comes with WiFi and a battery that lasts about 20 hours with a full charge, plus FM radio among the specs.
The image above is official and we learn that the E-ink reader will pack a touchscreen, a home button and support for many formats, among which there are PDF, TXT, HTM, PRC, HTML, EPUB, DJV and many more. The iPad clone’s official name and pricing will be announced in a week or two.
The iPad media storm is over, so it’s time to give the JooJoo tablet some quality time, since the device formerly known as the CrunchPad is about to get launched this month. Its maker, Fusion Garage announced that the product will start shipping in weeks with full production on its way.
Fusion Garage teamed up with Malaysian OEM CSL Group, to cover the costs of the tablet manufacturing process. CSL will get a part of the revenue associated with the product, as a follow-up of this cooperation. It has also been confirmed that the tablet comes with full Flash support and even HD Flash content, thanks to the Flash 10.1 technology.
There’s a web app store coming, as well, apparently one that’s bigger than Apple’s according to Fusion Garage CEO Chandra. JooJoo will retail for $499 and it’ll pack a 12 inch display, larger than the 9.7 one of the iPad, but who knows if Apple won’t come up with a larger version of its tablet?
Citrix Systems recently announced that it has managed to port Windows 7 to the Apple iPad, at least as a virtual installation. This info was mentioned in a blog post on the company’s website, by Chris Fleck, its VP of Community and Solutions Development. Turns out that companies using the XenDesktop or XenApp virtualization platforms will be able to use Win 7 on the iPad.
Fleck also wrote on the Citrix blog that the 9.7 inch display on the iPad, sporting an 1024 x 768 pixels resolution is great for a full virtual desktop infrastructure (XenDesktop). What’s interesting is that this Windows port will allow the device to run multiple apps at the same time, so does this mean that the multitaksing issue is solved for the iPad?
Keep in mind that Windows 7 can’t be installed on the iPad, but rather ran from a server and displayed on the device. Thus, the service becomes a client not the 100% OS.
What if somebody told you that a product is “phenomenal”, “great”, “amazing”, “incredible” over and over and over again? It would certainly annoy you… or make you think that you’re dealing with a phenomenal product. Apple was counting on the second theory when they kept praising its brand new iPad during the official presentation, as you can see in the following video:
It’s a bit hard to call these adjectives “subliminal messages”, since they’re quite far from what we’ve seen in Fight Club, for example, in terms of hidden messages, but still, they’re pretty annoying. Now, let’s see a company dissing its own product, for a change…
Samsung has just launched a new e-book reader, the SNE-60/60K (also known as the E6) in South Korea. The device will be available locally starting this month via Kyobo and Samsung Digital Plaza Stores. The E6 is the successor to the SNE-50K e-reader.
Samsung’s new device comes with an extra inch of display, when compared to its predecessor, plus WiFi and 2GB of internal memory. You’ll be able to download all the needed e-books or newspapers from Kyobo via a wireless connection and we learn that the gadget also supports PDF-ePUB formats, MP3 playback and text-to-speech.
The device will be available starting February 8 with a $370 price tag.
If you’re looking for a cheaper iPad alternative, it might come from Korea, looking like the device in the picture on the left. Dubbed the Trigem TG Tablet PC, this product is made by Averatec and it’s in fact a series of tablets that will be available in the first half of 2010.
The devices come with office software, like ThinkFree Mobile and ThinkFree Online and we learn that two models will run Windows and Linux. One of them sports a 7 inch touchscreen display, while the other is based on a 10 inch screen.
Both Trigem tablets can be used as e-book readers and they both incorporate a 1.3 megapixel camera.
Just a week after seeing Apple’s tablet, we’ve come across a video showing Google’s Chrome OS running on top of a prototype tablet. This doesn’t necessarily mean that Google will be making a tablet of its own, but as long as their software is on board, the device is still a challenger for the iPad and any other similar device, for that matter.
These images were launched on the web by Glen Murphy, Google’s Chrome UI lead designer and they show the result of the brainstorm process of the team behind Chrome OS. Expect multiple Google Tablet models to be launched, since there’s not a single device using Chrome OS, but more, with screens ranging from 5 to 10 inches.
We have to mention that the Google Tablet seems a big bigger than the Apple iPad, which is not bad, specially with that cool virtual keyboard. Also, this neat concept supports multitasking and you should know you can watch in action in the video below:
HTC has recently announced that, although it was in the process of developing both an Android and Chrome OS tablet, the project was canned. Apparently, they want to focus on Android smartphones, without distractions like a new tablet on their hands. HTC will probably want to evaluate the tablet segment and see how well Apple iPad performs on this young market.
First of all, if the Taiwanese company wants to succeed, it’ll have to compete with the like of the Archos 5 Android tablet or the really cool products made by Lenovo. Dell’s also got a pretty appealing device of its own and we’re not even talking about the NVIDIA Tegra 2-based tablets coming soon.
What could HTC bring new to the table in order to smash the competition?
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