It’s not vaporware, your right, it’s just garbage… and how their handling users that received damaged goods could ONLY be described as fraud..

With that said I bought an Adam and it’s fun to have. However, I want Honeycomb on it.

The launcher feature could be nice with some tweaking though.

With that said I bought an Adam and it’s fun to have. However, I want Honeycomb on it.

The launcher feature could be nice with some tweaking though.

Thank You
Cree

So ever since Slashgear published that article about Notion Ink Adam’s poor battery life, i went ahead and did a little time lapse video trying to see how quickly the battery drained while playing back a video clip.

The video is composed of two parts, showing a 1 hr battery drain with a playback of a media video. The video being played is a 1080p divx avi file straight from the SDCARD2 directory. There are two drains done — one in Pixel Qi Color and the other is B/W mode both at 50% brightness, 50% Sound Volume, Wifi – OFF, Bluetooth – OFF, GPS – OFF, Sync – OFF. MVideoPlayer was used as the playback device.

Please view the video to see final result!

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDw7_33_eg&feature=player_embedded”

Let’s see your battery numbers by this method

http://www.notionaddicts.com/forums/showthread.php/1769-Quick-and-Easy-BenchMark-for-batterylife

I doubt it would beat an iPad or even iPhone 4

Any device manufactured in the kind of volume that NI has done so far, with the low volume of test units, will have this kind of defects in manufacturing (and in design for manufacturing). You don’t see as many of these kinds of defects (though you do absolutely see them) on devices from Apple, Motorola, Lenovo, etc., because they have manufacturing test runs that are larger than NI’s pre-order run.

People at certain American* tech blogs ([koff!] John Biggs! [koff!] TechCrunch!) have come right out and said — repeatedly, and ad nauseum — that only fools order devices from small companies. It follows from that that all progress not the result of work by large, established players — or at least, startups with very very deep VC pockets — happens on the backs of fools. It also is a fair inference from that sentiment that if you can’t be perfect out of the gate, you should just go home and not try.

Much of this is sour grapes. As far as my research can divine, the Adam anti-boosterism movement started with TechCruch and Engadget, who were heavily invested (karmically if not financially) in the success of the so-called “CrunchPad”, which tanked admid mutual accusations of swindling and underhanded dealing. Note that that’s what Biggs and his compatriots have accused NI of: Outright swindling has been insinuated, double-dealing, underhandedness.

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*I am, actually, an American, and not an Indian. So this is not south-asian boosterism or anti-Americanism on my part.

The whole Anti-Adam thing you are saying is probably only in your head :)
They’v had bumps – and I dont have a crystal ball like Biggs from the other blog. If they go public I might buy their stock – if they don’t – I’m happy with the Apple stock I own :)

The whole Anti-Adam thing you are saying is probably only in your head :)
They’v had bumps – and I dont have a crystal ball like Biggs from the other blog. If they go public I might buy their stock – if they don’t – I’m happy with the Apple stock I own :)

The whole Anti-Adam thing you are saying is probably only in your head :)
They’v had bumps – and I dont have a crystal ball like Biggs from the other blog. If they go public I might buy their stock – if they don’t – I’m happy with the Apple stock I own :)

Being so vocal, adam community would have made it amply clear that they are not happy with the battery life, it seems majority are.. the blog writer should be ashamed of creating false headlines…