Right now the cover is peeling off pixel by pixel as Rohan and co tease a captive and spellbound audience eager to pre order the Notion Ink Adam . The waiting is torture , according to some eager posters it is already available and yet others are screaming it is not. What Rohan and Notion Ink have to avoid is falling into the niche fan sales trap , that the joojoo , and later exopc and wetab did . Supply must reach non techies and non fans , that is what Steve and Apple managed to do ,reach and supply people like myself who never touched an Apple product before iPad ,and here months later I am hooked and typing this entry on one. What worries me with the Adam , is the teaser campaign ,the initial lock of preorders to forum posters , this is the Christmas sale season you want to reach every person you can , limiting preorders is going to throw fans into frenzied states ,just check the blog, every one who cannot preorder will be obliged to turn to a rival tablet whether Samsung Galaxy Tab or the Apple iPad .We are also firmly now in iPad 2 speculation season , and if the usual suspects are to be believed , the 2nd coming of the iPad will be a truly evangelical experience. So Notion Ink is late to the game ,with an excellent product that I could not live without but then I am one of those frenzied fans , I can take the tease. Unless the order system is open to all and soon ,and there are only a couple of weeks of sale time left, delivery over this holiday may prove difficult and Samsung and Apple will own the tablet market.
But really this close to Christmas , its only Grinches that want to withhold presents ,and I am sure Rohan and Notion Inks carefully managed marketing campaign isn`t intended to be mean , but you would think that the latest and most promising iPad competitor would have borrowed from Apples successful launch with worldwide preorders open to everyone and avoided its rivals failures such as the exopc restricting preorders to forum members..
Removing a few screws , reveals the easily upgradable innards of my Joojoo
, a few seconds later the ssd is replaced with a new 64gb one
, around a day later My Joojoo now runs a full OS and is running many of the same programs my uber pc does
of course installing takes around 40 minutes ,the other 23 hours 20 mins were spent sleeping, , and now as Fusion Garage stop production and move onto Joojoo 2 ,finally it starts to show its full potential , not content with running a full operating system, I find myself poaching the beautiful touch screen keyboards from my Toshiba Libretto....
ths is the split keyboard ,one of 7 that I am using to type this see:
and the coolest 12.1 inch touch screen keyboard
you can of course use the Windows Keyboard ,handy if your jedi powers are weak and you need to see what you are typing ,checkout me editing a picture for this post in Paint :
Over the keyboard rush I am really pushing the envelope by scrawling this blog entry in the tablet input panel i.e. 1 finger scrawling
And here is the rub , this is new, Windows7 Ultimate is infinitely more useful than a gimped phone os tablet ,just completing this chore writing a blog post editing a picture,just became more fun than on my uber pc .Typing ,move and grab actions are all effortless, devoid of the rsi causing mouse clicks and hammering of physical keys.
a joojoo configured in this way is fast enough,large enough and adaptable enough. Its a new way of computing the closest thing to surface computing and I mean computing in a complete way without the severe compromises imposed by phone os tablets.
hmmh lets change the rotation
now we can do all of the above vertically!
This is how the joojoo should have launched with a full os ,large ssd, but even if it had touch computing is so in it`s infancy , and reviewers would have been daunted by all the new options a full os 12 inch open tablet brings. So Apple gave the world a device simple in function and even simpler to use ,that is their genius. But that does not preclude those of us who feel the need the need to mess around to seek alternatives and thanks to Fusion Garage I have an upgradeable tablet using a full desktop os ,keyboard software from another awesome dual screen slate,and one that praise the maker lets me use blogger.
Friends , countrymen,tablet fans ,lend me your ears , for it is time for you to liberate a Joojoo
For although noble Joojoo is dead one could say proverbially back stabbed on the way to the techno blog forum by its alleged co designers and even deserted by its closest friends, it has has also been freed from the tyranny of the US tech blogs , unshackled from the minimalist linux os chains placed on it by its Fusion Garage masters , and so the noble joojoo is starting to shine, seriously shine .
The Joojoo you see is really a blank slate[!] , the McGuyver or McGruber of tablets , once you have a joojoo and the will you can do almost anything with et voila French Joojoo liberation hero Kain II and his JooJoo 7 OSX + Pack UI on the the original 4gb SSD , so you do not even have to tinker with the machine !
This looks to me like an implementation of existing tablet user interfaces , taking Libretto and Intels Blue Dolphin Software layers and adding them to an OS install . You can of course accomplish similar results by installing these drivers after you install Windows 7 Ultimate onto your shiny new 64 gb joojoo compatible ssd! And have a machine you can actually do stuff with , apart from making impressive youtube videos...Myself I also installed the Microsoft Surface demos , and yes you can mess with the pond and play chess ,totally pointless , but then I do also have a 64 gb ion powered 4gb full Windows 7 Ultimate tablet pc now as a side effect of my dream of running the pond demo.....
If you want to achieve similar results without resorting to the forum instructions , buy a windows 7 licesnce , get 4 gb of ram , and the joojoo compatible ssd from runcore , download the Toshiba Libretto software from their support site , egalax touch drivers , nvidia ion drivers , and the Blue Dolphin UI from Intel , and away you go you have an infinitely more useful tablet pc , and one more beautiful I may add than any of the current , or upcoming , uber tablets , and Notion Ink Adam I am certainly talking about you .
Now add the Steam , D2D , and Google Chrome Web Stores , and you well you have 1000s if not millions of things to waist your time on .
And another thing here is a shot of how the Google preview panel shows up for a search , try this on your ipad or 7 inch tablets , only a modded joojoo with its 12.1 inch screen makes the simple chore of surfing look this gorgeous:
Do you want to see a one handed attempt at playing Meat Boy the original free flash version , oh Flash , you remember how all the tech blogs lied to you about Flash not working on tablets , well it does if your tablet runs a full Windows 7 install check out the one handed gameplay , apologies I was holding the camera with the other hand ! That's a Toshiba Libretto split keyboard by the way . No downloading , or app stores were necessary to play the game : Google Chrome is running the game in Flash on a Windows 7 install , full install , off a 64gb ssd and only 1gb of ram!The gpu drivers come from Nvidia :
More games tests to follow , when I get my 4gb upgrade and find a tripod for the camera ....
This is really how the joojoo should have launched , and what pro consumers really want from the next generation of tablets is a full high end cpu , gpu and hidef screen , in this new tablet form factor , really once you experience the fun of using a surface/tabletop device , you will wonder why you were straining your back and neck all those years .... lets hope that the future is brought to us officially by the big players as well as through the hard work of the likes of Kain II and others on the Joojoo forum ....they - Apple , Fusion Garage , Notion Inke say they listen , but they don't you know , take the 1000s of posts on Notion Inks blog , none of which are being listened to at present .. or has anyone dared sing the Flash Gordon theme tune to Steve Jobs lately and lived to tell the tale????? More tyrants who should beware the ides of March?
check out Brando in Julias Caeser if you missed the riff
"out of my cold dead hands...this ones mine!.battlecry of Adams 1st preorder customer"
"Thou shalt not worship false tablets ......."
Reading the entrails of my spare Joojoo I continue to foresee the death on arrival of the Notion Ink Adam Tablet . Apart from satiating the Android nations hunger for a rival to the ONE it will not have any significant impact on the tablet scene.
"Whats new Pussycat?????Whoooooaaa "
So there are videos , but there is no stock to pre order .There is no date for eta or delivery As a company Notion Ink need to release stock not videos , any number of millions of UI layer videos exist on Youtube at any given time , and many with cute kittens operating rival tablets and Rohan as cute as you are you cannot compare to mittens the kitten now can you ?
how will Adam as demoed by Rohan below
compete with the feline interaction zenith the iPad has reached as illustrated by mittens below ?
the lack of feline oriented functions in the UI layer is just one more reason to worry for Adams future ,perhaps Rohan could start another year long blog offshoot where 1000s of the Notion Ink Flock bleat away .....
The insanity of the last paragraph is really just a non engineering design student metaphor for the complete nonstarter that the Adam launch has become. In the end all that matters is stock reaching customers and their cats , and Adam has failed felines and their pet humans , claiming sold out pre orders is frankly just another part of the year long teaser campaign.
"It puts the Notion in the tablet "
For almost a year Notion Ink have been leading loyal blog fans around by the nose detailing every detail , talking the talk , promising promises , and have delivered to date on none of them . Now videoing every function , at least superficially.
1. there is no stock - for an item that many were led to believe would be here before Christmas - Rohan should be chasing this not making teaser videos , oh look at the scrolling tabs .....
2. what are good people doing wasting time and money on what looks like an 8g flash tablet that has no marketplace app store , a screen resolution that is not supported by the majority of open GL games , hardware that will be dated :
3. when it launches , if it launches outside a few 1000 niche purhases , it will fail : it will be competing with Motorola Google Tablets , Windows 7 tablets , the Asus tablet , the HP , Dell whatever tablets and lo of course Steves Apple iPAd part deux , not to mention the Samsung 10 inch ramp up of the Galaxy Tab and the dual core Blackberry tablet!
Are millions of people really going to switch to Notion Ink from established players , and if the likes of Samsung find it tough against Apple , and they have stock released everywhere , what possible chance has Notion Ink got with Adam with its present launch fiasco.
Many people talk of Notion Ink needing a PR company , a PR company to do what ? sell hot air? they need to ramp up production , sort the pre-orders out for their only standout product the fabled PixelQi version ,stop with the teaser videos . Blackberry also had teaser videos earlier this year for their tablet , thing is there was no tablet , it will hit next year , all of this makes business nonsense .
The only thing that can take on iPad will be iPad 2 , millions of which are being manufactured right now in time for next February . What makes Steve a genius is preparation , and he seems to be able to have more time to devote to work as he is not constantly on a one to one blog posting teaser videos about a phantom product like the CEO of Notion Ink has done or the CEO of Blackberry did earlier this year
But come February you can bet Steve Jobs will be weaving his magic sales spiel about the only tablet that will dominate this form factor sales for 2011 , the iPad 2.
so the question is do I wear black or white to the Notion Ink Adam launch/funeral , who knows may be I'll take a Notion Ink style survey on that ...
Of course I may be completely wrong , but I have watched Fusion Garage fail , and they had a tangible product , [but useless software ] .
I have been using a 1024 by 600 dual screen tablet for months and I can tell you the nominal res is the iPads 1024 by 768 . Plus all those hoping to flash this with an other OS will be operating at a suboptimal res for most modern day OS applications and indeed games . I can play almost anything on my Windows 7 Joojoo with its 720 p 1366 768 res and web pages etc look gorgeous at that res. So many games and applications will not run at 1024 by 600 that this fact makes the Adam a non starter for those hoping to try Windows and other OS on it .
And then we come to the real power users , you /we need dual screen tablet notebooks with full cpus and gpus as well as operating systems .
Why so serious ? Have you read the Notion Ink Blog , it comes across to cynics like sanctimonious self supporting babble . We love you love ... ahh ... someone ask the family where the product is , when it will release why it seems to have lost its most important features , how it will survive against the coming biblical plague of Tablets and with Pharoh releasing his iPad 2 ...
The thing is Rohan the audience for tablets has grown up a lot since CES 2010 , and the iPad launch , even the iPad 2 will not satisfy the tech lust of an audience that demands the best tech for its money .
If my next fun tablet is an iPad 2 then
Mine other tablet is a full OS large screen hi res dual screen i5 i7 tablet
The hidden cost with all these non desktop OS tablets , is the app purchasing , the apps are always sub desktop or laptop OS in functionality but as I said we are a year older when it comes to tablet use and not as easily wowed by tablet tech .
Consider the Acer Iconia an i5 powered dual screen tablet that runs a full Windows 7 OS , infinitely more useful than the Notion Ink Adam , next year this is what many existing tablet owners frustrated with hardware limitations and having no need to learn the intricacies of another tablet will be chasing full OS dual screen tablets with more power than today's laptops and many desktops :
here check out one of the coolest dudes out there demoing the Acer Iconia .....wait till Mittens gets a load of this :
even Endgaget are intrigued
ok intrigued too ? now prepare to witness the power of this fully operational dea... sorry full Windows 7 OS dual screen i5 powered tablet: Note how nothing Notion Ink will come up in their videos can compare !
now that is what I call progress !where do you think my money will go Rohan?
Warm Regards,
3ch3l0n
this post was made possible by the genius of Mr Demille , Charlton Heston and hopefully will wake up the dormant genius that is Rohan Shravan , come on dude pull your finger out! and of course Mittens whose favourite game can be found on iTunes
En Garde ! It`s a great day when you get to present not one but 4 tablets , the CEO of ASUS should be rightly proud of his company . The Asus keynote earlier this week was not like rival presentations concentrating on one product built with off the shelf vanilla tech with oh so last year Tegra 2 chipsets +/- the Tron Evo laced UI that Google calls Honeycombe or the Biblically monikered and plagued Eden OS... No Asus is doing something different wisely casting its nets far and wide:
One 4 all and all 4 one ............. The Eee Pad is not one slate it is 4! Transformer, Slider, MeMO and Eee Slate EP121: What Asus have done is tune and evolve the tablet form factor with the evolving needs of the tablet audience , for we have outgrown our fun large screen ipods , we want the functionality of a pc in a slate , a high end pc,running a full desktop OS , or we want a smaller mobile slate , and one you can write on..with a pen ! or we want freedom from iOS but not from apps i.e we want the promise of Android Honeycombe slates . To their great merit Asus has catered for all audiences and this their Four tablet Musketeer riposte to Apple and the iPad dominated slate sector is really more likely to succeed than any other company to date.
A year on into using tablets , there are millions of people who actually want to do something productive with them other than catapult elastic banded Aves Iratus , we want and demand the power AND the freedom of a high end PC in the slate form factor.
Unlike other softer competition who have struggled to even get to the preorder stage for their wunder tablets, with Asus behind the manufacture , and design you know the Eee Pad series is going to be mass produced ,widely available and you can already order the flagship , ASUS Eee Slate EP121-1A011M 12.1-Inch Tablet PC and ASUS Eee Slate EP121-1A010M 12.1-Inch Tablet PC , that's an i5 cpu running full Windows 7 , with a key board dock that actually makes it a laptop and not a vanity mirror with a faux keyboard that many rivals end up looking like. It is if it works out , the first real slate that qualifies as a laptop replacement.
Don`t believe the hype! Windows 7 is a great slate OS : How do I know ? I am writing this on a Joojoo running Windows 7 Ultimate , with 4gb of Ram and a 64 Gb ssd , there is no of the lag or slowdown , touch is responsive , all the aero fx work,flash full screen hd video (which many blogs claimed couldn't be done , anything I can do on my desktop I can do with Windows 7 on this slate,short of run Crysis maxed out , Windows 7 is infinitely more useful than any of the sub os app based iOS or Android slates , all this with a 1.6ghz Atom CPU , I cannot wait to try out a fully powered i5 or i7 slate like the EP121 as the one thing I cannot swap out from the Joojoo is the motherboard/cpu , but who knows ?
The freedom you will gain with Windows 7 a full OS running on a slate so outdoes the novelty of a gimped phone OS or Tronified [the wrong Tron at that] UI that Honeycombe turned out to be , that many a future iPad 2 purchaser may now be warming to Asus and the return of simple concept of giving the customer what they want as opposed to telling them what they need and can have.
The price of Asus Eee Slate is so close to what the high end iPad 2 will be, infact it is seriously cheaper than my present iPad with all the dongles , whilst at the same time packing more punch than high end MacbookPros , and Macbooks and undercutting them by say $1000 that this could signal the end of the net book vs laptop vs slate argument .
It is likely that one or all of the 4 Asus Tablet Musketeers will defeat the iPad 2 and millions will be freed from their iOS shackles....
I have awarded Thegameveda 2010 coveted plastic Dodo award to the Notion Ink and its Adam.
CES 2011 is online/over , and an army of around 100 Tablets is about to derezz the Notion Ink Adam even before the first one lands in the hands of its few purchasers... who has I predicted in a previous treatise entitled Notion Ink Adam Death of a Tablet part 2 and prior to that in a discourse entitled The Notion Ink Adam Dead and Buried before Arrival , are not going to receive their Adams on time .... it is not even funny any more...
Notion Inkers , the family , the few ..the happy few , have been spoon fed videos of leaves , hdmi out displays, and wonder of wonder videos of screen rotation! to the un-enchanted the over complex and overstretched software layer has managed to make the hardware look like its dressed for oblivion wearing a giant Albatross around its neck ... Enough I cannee take no more Captain...too many ornithological riffs .
As I write there are still no preorders available , and there still has been no live demo of the fabled pixelqi screen. There is an official on site video but this does not manage to actually show actual use of the tablet , they went for a Wetab simulated concept demo . Isn't that nice ? . But all of that is irrelevant , for alas poor Adam ,is dead , we did not know him well , a tablet of infinite jest it seems... not...
As I write the new tablet army is ending the year long tease that the Notion Ink Adam launch has become ,satiating the hunger and expectations of millions of tablet fans. Frankly outside of a few 1000 punters who through the power of the Notion Ink Blog Grooming scheme have talked and talked and talked themselves into buying the thing , believing falsely that the Adam would arrive in 2010 , be available to preorder , and be revolutionary compared to its competition , able to run Honeycomb with the rest of the big boys , well you know none of that has happened.
A favourable review sorry preview , sorry hands on in some dark corner of CES , by usually Apple centric blogs,one by the same journalist who was so wowed by it 1 year ago.... represent a few patronising pats on the back for young Rohan from the big blogs perhaps , to make up for the universal vitriol poured on Fusion Garage on their sites.... and the realisation that the day will come when one of these Asian genii will dethrone Jobs and Master Gates , it won't be Notion Ink or Fusion Garage though!
lets see what Rohans up against : or why the Adam died....
Design choice faults were obvious in the Adam from Creation or inception as folks like to say these days ......where to begin , too much talking and too little action , most importantly settling on a suboptimal res of 1024 by 600 when the Tegra 2 tablets are all running beyond this and the ref for tablets to use Honeycomb is 1280*720 .Wasting time designing a leaf based UI , remember the leaf based Linux UI of the Joojoo? and vapour launching the tablet before Honeycomb 3 . The tech is dated , rushed , software clunky , complex and futitle when you think every tablet and your toaster will be running Honeycomb
The Adam like the doomed Tegra 2 based Folio will fail because of its impatience to release before the only UI layer designed for tablets ,Honeycomb,that can take on iOS is released. Oh you few 1000 users may be able to hack some version of Honeycomb , but it wont be the bells and whistles , tablet OS that every other cheaper faster , larger and more widely available Tegra 2 tablet will be running .
1.We have the 4 Musketeers from Asus who have not one but 4 tablets out , including they claim the most powerful tablet ever :
2.Having defeated the Asus Musketeers the Notion Ink Adam will have to take on The Motorola Xoom which is the greatest thing to come out of CES , for many , and has been awarded that title officially.
3. Then the more powerful full OS Windows 7 tablets from Motion Computing , futuristic dual screen tablets in the form of the Acer Iconia .. as well as too many to mention competitors including an i5 powered Windows 7 tablet theEee Slate EP121, which has a 12.1-inch screen up to 4GB of memory and Bluetooth 3.0 , and then how about some Honeycomb running variants from 7 to 10 inches . The Eee Slate works with a Wacom Digitizer pen and also comes with a bluetooth keyboard . And then there are all the others with Toshiba , LG , Motorola, and Blackberry to name but a few that all showed their wares .
4. And of course in the last weeks of January the tech world is readying itself for the annual vegan (I am sure) Cupertino luau where Steve Jobs will roast the competition in an underground banana leaf oven with the announcement of iPad 2
Then if by some miracle Notion Ink get the Adam past that lot , we have around 74+ other tablets too numerous to go into here , but you get the picture , Adam is over.
5. the Adam isn't fighting against hundreds , it is fighting against millions:Say the Adam hardware Cyrano like manages to win its moonlit duel with 100 odd tablets , what about the Software ? Well major players like Google , Blackberry , Apple and even Microsoft with Windows 7 tablets have millions of developers collectively working for them. The Adam cannot scale this software wall , unless of course it was designed to leverage Android or Windows , but afterCES we know that their is no official Android app store for it , Honeycombs native res for tablets is too much for the Adam , and there is no way you will be installing Windows 7 without ripping it open adding RAM and an ssd ,much simpler ,cheaper and wiser to go for an i5 powered Asus Ep121 for instance.... Although you won't be convincing many Notion Ink sheep who would probably be happy with an empty box with Adam written on it , the way they worship the thing. But consider they have wasted a year of their lives blogging for some tech that was outdated the day it was announced , and is outperformed in price and power by much more viable alternatives from name manufacturers and I do not mean Apple alone people!
So Notion Inks Adam is a dead , a deceased parrot of a semi-vapour tablet , even its official video does not show the tablet ! yeah you noticed that too did you?
Lessons in how to not design a tablet or any other product for that matter:
1. And most importantly ,too much design bs - there is a years worth of how not to design a tablet blog nonsense for students of how not to design tablets on the official blog. Not entirely different from the mistakes Fusion Garage made although they did not tease their prospective customers so much...
2.Every tablet turning heads at CES eg the Xoom is reliant on the might of the big players creating the OS . Fusion Garage had hardware that could have run Windows but went nuts over a cloud tablet , possibly 10 years before we get used to cloud computing , how do I know it could run Windows 7 ? because I am typing this on it . Notion Ink similarly , for all their talk designed themselves out of a market , that will be controlled by simple hardware design , giving the customers what they want does not mean ignoring what is best for them . Honeycomb is ready to shine on the 100 odd new Tegra 2 tablets , all of whom are going to be more easily available ,cheaper , and useful than the Adam with Eden , its leaves and its suboptimal res. Windows 7 tablets will cater for the power hungry or anyone who wants to be free from App slavery. There is no place for Adam in this very busy arena.
3. Again , the screen resolution is totally wrong , you have powerful hardware , but Notion Ink pair it with a screen that does not even run at the minimum resolution that is required by Honeycomb to function on tablets. And of course every other Tegra 2 tablet is running at that optimal res.
With the tablet competition hotting up , even Steve Jobs will have to work some wicked voodoo with iPad 2.0 , Rohan and Notion Ink do not stand a chance , another Adam chased out of Eden by the bite of an Apple .....
4. Adam is ugly the bezzels are astonishingly large , giving it a certain early Shenzen Apad chic ... I do not want a bezel I can replace , I do not want a bezel at all
So people do not waste your hard earned cash , no one who preordered will get theirs on time , or before the tsunami of above tablets arrives , its the wrong res for Honeycomb , Eden is another useless over complex UI that will not compete with Honeycomb , or full OS tablets , there are around 100 alternatives weeks away , all with better hardware and pricing , in reality this year long tease has been a tablet version of the Emperors New Clothes . Is there a single promise that has been kept by this company and are you going to walk around with obsolete tech and software when the latest whizzbang tablets are raining down all around you?
Notion Ink Adam? ...more like Notion Sink Adam.....too much conversation and too little action as the King used to sing...and ... thank you very much ..huh..huh...right I am off for my refried banana snack is ready ...
I just hope it does not go through a resurrection , as I am running out of bird similes......
if you missed the riff 
