Notion Ink Adam Death of A Tablet part 6: Gong Hei Fard Choi from Rohan Shravan and the Tablet of Doom?

Warm regards Notion Ink observers.. and it's not a very happy Chinese New Year from your heroes at Notion Stink ..

First a recap , Notion Ink announced a tablet to end all tablets last year at CES (and it looks like it will end them) , anyway, they in fact launched a blog , for nigh on a year created hysteria amongst their native population ,  Android faithful and those around the world  wishing for an alternative to Apple. They did not deliver the tablet as promised ,it has the wrong res , only 8gb storage , there are no functioning review units,cannot run or update its own OS[see later bricked reference], cannot run Honeycomb and has no Android store . But Notion Ink used their blog to launch a teaser campaign  took pre orders , limited pre orders , with money up front ,with a payment method that excluded the majority of its' devotees, vapour launched the tablet months before competition from real Honeycomb 3 tablets, and , when it did reach the hands of a few dozen ,in fact may be a dozen owners , Notion Ink's own tablet update bricked the slates , of course none of this matters to a Notion Ink fan , who has invested money and around a year of time being led around by the nose by what is clearly at best the unluckiest start up or at worst a bunch of incompetent and inexperienced kids with too much time,attention and other  peoples money.  

What Notion Ink has managed to do-didley  right ....

Well over on the Notion Ink Blog there is now a years worth of records of HOW NOT TO LAUNCH A TABLET  , you should peruse before they hit DEL , and erase themselves by accident , in fact speaking of accidents :

here is the latest Notion Ink BS fresh from the horses own a..mouth/blog :

"All of you who pre-ordered and helped Notion Ink start building the community must have received an email today. One email is on the confirmation of shipping and the other one is on the delay. Those who are in the later group (5.31%) are angry as I could see their comments and the emails.

It is extremely unfortunate that we are in such a situation. We could not have expected the accidental damage of the touch screen shipment, and that too just days before Chinese New Year eve. Even though the damage was to a part of shipment, we cancelled all because in such a case you cannot predict the defective and working screens manually. Our friends at Sintek requested their employees to miss their New Year week and instead manufacture the lost numbers. Most of them agreed."

As I noted in Notion Ink Adam Death of A Tablet part 5 , you cannot make this stuff up 

Making people work through their holidays , how kind and generous , was the request order  made using the usual condescending "Warm regards , Chinese workforce  , you holidays are now cancelled , your one major holiday of the year, no forgeddaboutit , the Notion Ink family and the Fredo of Tablet design have made you an order you cannot refuse..."

Why not do the sensible thing , let them have their holidays , every Chinese manufacturer is managing this , more importantly all the Western companies that rely on them work around Chinese New Year , how can Notion Stink miss the fact that they promised to deliver a product made in China on and around Chinese New Year. Oh of course maybe because the calendar app on Rohan's Adam failed .  

To find out why you have to go back to the ludicrous teaser pre order fiasco  in November , promising delivery around New Year and February , so Notion Ink managed to fall foul of Christmas , Western New Year , and Chinese New Year , a tripple whammy of totally avoidable delays , this is why major companies worth 100s of billions launch and work AFTER this period . 

This is also why Notion Stink can not get their second pre order batch going . Very  basic stuff , why ask yourselves should you have any faith in Notion Ink ? If it is so difficult for them to get you your paid for Adam, what are you going to do if you have a fault with your Adam ?

There's got to be a Beta way.....

Yes it is great to be involved in developing tech with your favourite company , but this is not Google sending you a free Chrome OS netbook , to have fun with at their cost . They are paying people $1000s for spotting bugs , go check them out . Meanwhile Notion Stink is using your money and time to hype and create hysteria for an underpowered , underachieving clearly Beta product , nay Alpha product , whilst trying to take a byte out of the Apple and Blackberry pie Notion Stink have forgotten the golden rule , you gotta give it time to cool or you get burned . 

There are real alternatives  there is still time wake up and smell the Notion Stink!

For my  Notion Ink Hacks readers , these and many ,many,other jesting comments are made re Notion Ink from hard earned experience of using tablets of every kind for the last year , including  iPad , Joojoo , Toshiba Libretto . I can spot a bad one from a year off , the Toshiba Folio for instance . I have a  joojoo for hacking , running every OS conceivable from Chrome OS , Android , Ubuntu to full Windows  , the Libretto is from the future and is way too cool for most people to get round their heads, and the iPad whether you like it or not is what made the tablet market viable . All have plus points and cons , surf around my blog thegameveda and you will see me ranting at various times against Jobs and Fusion Garage with more fervor than I have done in my Notion Ink Death of a Tablet series. But the thing is all those tablets have paid for themselves in terms of fun and function . With the Adam this is not going to happen.  You see the Joojoo has a terrible leaf based OS , great in concept but ahead of its time in reliance on the cloud , but it has superb hardware , even the next gen slates do not have its' 12.1 screen , and more important , I  swapped the ssd for a sandforce , I have it running 4gb of RAM ,  and if you check my blog you will see how amazing the joojoo and Libretto are paired with onlive and Steam , full AAA top of the range PC games that require gaming pc specs running instantly(onlive) in your hands on a 12.1 inch tablet. Using Windows 7 may be an anathema to many of you considering tablets , but use of the cloud ,and the ability to install and run anything you like is unmatched. 

I had great hopes for the Notion Ink Adam , but 20 odd years of messing around with and building ,upgrading and struggling with pc tech and software has made me a little wiser , take your hard earned money and spend it elsewhere , for Android fans Honeycomb 3 is the reference , the reference hardware specs are way too much for poor Adam , and you know Notion Stink will start hyping Adam 2 , oh wait , they already did that ?

In Notion Ink Adam  Death of Tablet Part 7: the Sheep Rebellion : I will ponder the growing back lash against  Notion Stink by the "family" ,"community " and other such fluffy condescending and patronising terms used by the complete disaster area of a company that is Notion Ink .  

So until then it's a Warm Regards from me and for those angry fans as Rohan terms them a  very very cold Chinese New Year regards from the Notion Stinkers with their latest Adam fiasco!

3ch3lon 

Thegameveda

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