The tablet is unique in the industry both for coming from India but also for its interface. Although it uses Android 2.2, the Adam has a heavily customized front end, Eden, that promises to address the problems of scaling the pre-3.0 OS to the large screen. It revolves around "leaves" that let multiple apps work alongside each other even if not explicitly optimized for tablets. Other apps, such as the browser and e-mail, have been reworked to use the full screen properly.
It will be one of the first non-Apple tablets its size in the US and also one of the most feature-laden, with both a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 as well as front and back cameras and 1080p-capable HDMI output. Versions with 3G in the US will work on AT&T.
Along with the shipping notice, Shravan mentioned that Android 3.0, Honeycomb, was still a planned upgrade but that it might take some time to implement. The Eden interface was designed with Android 3.0 compatibility in mind, but Google's OS is a "work in progress" and is bringing a lot of things that Notion Ink had previously had to add itself. The CEO was optimistic and noted that a lot of the improvements would focus on smooth visual transitions that had previously been a weak point of Android, especially on the larger canvas of a tablet.
He wouldn't give an estimate for the upgrade as it depended first on having access that hasn't been a real option so far.
The Adam isn't expected to be a major challenge to the iPad's American dominance due to distribution limits but may be the first truly optimized Android tablet to offer competition before Motorola's Xoom tablet comes with Android 3.0 sometime in February.
It will be one of the first non-Apple tablets its size in the US and also one of the most feature-laden, with both a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 as well as front and back cameras and 1080p-capable HDMI output. Versions with 3G in the US will work on AT&T.
Along with the shipping notice, Shravan mentioned that Android 3.0, Honeycomb, was still a planned upgrade but that it might take some time to implement. The Eden interface was designed with Android 3.0 compatibility in mind, but Google's OS is a "work in progress" and is bringing a lot of things that Notion Ink had previously had to add itself. The CEO was optimistic and noted that a lot of the improvements would focus on smooth visual transitions that had previously been a weak point of Android, especially on the larger canvas of a tablet.
He wouldn't give an estimate for the upgrade as it depended first on having access that hasn't been a real option so far.
The Adam isn't expected to be a major challenge to the iPad's American dominance due to distribution limits but may be the first truly optimized Android tablet to offer competition before Motorola's Xoom tablet comes with Android 3.0 sometime in February.
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