ADAM-TABLET INFORMATION
June 10 2012
The most recent comments by Rohan Shravan, CEO, Notion Ink,
about their Adam tablet computers
was issued in Light Reading India, on May 9 2012.
Flipkart.com in India
is still selling the Adam for 20.999 Indian Rupees through their website in anybody is interested...
- tabletroms.com on August 31 2011
Finally some news from Rohan Shravan...
NotionInk and Adam tablet are still alive ! ! ! !
Raimo Kaarna said, on August 27, 2011 at 00:41 - - - notionink.wordpress.com
Request to our Adam tablet friends in BANGALORE, INDIA -
- Anirban, Prasanna, Vivek, Srikanta, Binu, Deepu and Punya
You were having the meeting of Bangalore Adamites one month ago, on the 16th of July and Binu seemed to have taken a few photos of your six Adam tablets, too. The next meeting soon ?
Your own comments: “The first meet was really successful and useful too. I think we should meet once a month. I also encourage other city Adamites to meet and post their experiences and learning.“
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What about helping us, the foreign Adam users, to get rid of vain fears and disappointments ? You can do it easily if you want. Binu, just take your digi camera and go to Notion Ink Design Labs Pvt. Ltd., Subramanya Arcade, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560029, India and take a few photos outside Notion Ink office, and more inside if possible. Tell us what is going on, any kind of activity over there… No blogs, no news after July 26th, 2011 05:26 PM.
The Times of India wrote on Feb 14, 2010, 12.49am about the ‘iPad killer’ Adam and Notion Ink, its founders are six IITans and an MBA grad, average age of 24: Rohan Shravan, Rohit Rathi, Sachin Ralhan, and other five. Who of these persons are still working for Notion Ink ? How many have abandoned the ‘sinking’ ship ? If so, why ? Or are they all still studying or working for other computer firms to earn their living, to get some bread to the table, to pay their rents etc.
Here is how Rohan sold the Adam dream: “nVidia’s Tegra 2 chip and a PixelQi screen, together, they help it achieve twice the battery life and performance of the iPad”, “The chip provides an edge over the iPad with its ability to play full high definition videos and Flash on the web browser. It can offer the performance of a computer with the power consumption of a cellphone”.
Really ? What about HoneyComb – doesn’t it consume more power than a simple cellphone???
A few photos from Notion Ink office in Bangalore and Rohan & Co’s current ideas and dreams would give some us reliance and peace of mind, make our doubts about the future of the Adam tablet go away. My aim is to use my Adam tablet actively, preferably for years…
A few questions, can anyone help ?
1) how to watch the youtube / old adam sviwel camera videos / other videos / tv in 10” size instead of 7” size, I’ve got MoBoPlayer;
2) how to select the SWEDISH keyboard for EXTERNAL keyboard on android;
3) how to get external webcam to work with Adam, or the sviwel camera back;
4) any new useful updates for HC lately, after HC-2011-07-adam – where ?
5) any good applications, web editors for html and ftp, useable for writing 100’s of web pages
Raimo Kaarna – signalpenpals.net – Finland – PixelQi+WiFi+3G
Raimo Kaarna said, on August 12, 2011 at 00:17 - - - notionink.wordpress.com
Anyhow it was very interesting to be a part in Rohan Shravan's dream, unfortunately it propably also was only a DREAM...
I paid US$ 783,52 for this tablet computer. The money went to a very good purpose, part of it surely was used by Rohan
and his partners for their own computers, travelling expenses to the computer fairs in USA and Europe, to these students adventures in the real business world...
It goes without saying that without the fine Adam tablet dreams, design and ideas Rohan's life would not have been so exciting !
What I was expecting when I bought my Adam tablet ? I wanted to get a LIGHT portable "EDITORIAL DESK" and CAMERA for my publishing hobby,
I wanted to be able to read worldwide newspapers, watch international tv, edit my web pages in html, send the pages to web servers using ftp,
use external keyboard with the Scandinavian alphabets - the soft keyboard or thumb keyboard are useless for serious writing...
Something worked fine with the original software and with the first update.zip. After the unofficial HC update the camera stopped functioning,
no more photos or videos, the swivel camera became obsolate. Luckily I still can watch the photos and videos taken earlier... Now youtube and other videos are not in full screen size,
there is one inch of black space on the left and right, the size can not be enlarged with two fingers.
I used to watch some Indian tv stations, in English, now they no longer open at all,
Finnish tv stations (areena.yle.fi and mtv3.fi) videos do not open - they need JavaScript support ???
CNN videos can not be watched... Earlier they were just fine, before the HoneyComb update.
MY DREAM is that Rohan Shravan would design a few improvements for my Adam tablet:
the possibility to EXCHANGE the operation system from the external microSD card.
If I prefer the original user's interface (UI or ROM???) it would be possible, if I prefer the blue UI that could be selected,
or if I want to use the HoneyComb that would be possible. Just by selecting it from the microSD card.
All of us users are NOT interested in flashing the ROM every day, or in installing again the same applications to be
able to do anything sensible with the tablet computer.
I want to take photos and videos with the swivel camera again, I want to read local and foreign newspapers,
I want to watch videos in full screen size, I want to watch tv news from Finland and India and worldwide,
I want to edit my web pages and ftp them to web servers, everything is possible with any desktop or laptop computer.
Is it NOT possible with my "DREAM" tablet computer, US$ 783,52 ???? If not I feel a bit disappointed with my Adam tablet and
Rohan's dream... And surely there is NO reason for any of us to dream about buying also the Adam 2 tablet !
Raimo Kaarna - signalpenpals.net
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