A couple of propitious souls managed to get their Notion Ink Adams early — usually to have them section themselves. The rest were behind and, well, it’s all the bit of the mess. Now there’s another way to get a taste of Ink though upon a little currently accessible hardware. User gojimi over during the inimitable xda-developers forums has ported 7 applications from the Notion Ink suite to Viewsonic’s G-Tablet, together with a Calendar, Keyboard, QuickOffice, as well as a Browser. Some don’t run ideally and we have to say that’s something of an hapless aim, but gojimi does indicate it should be easy to move them to any alternative ROM. So, you know, have it occur!
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The flourishing pains of being a tiny company dealing with big direct have bitten Notion Ink again, as a company has had to dish out the unsatisfactory email to a little Adam buyers informing them their delivery has been behind to February 14th. The culprit in this unhappy case is a shipment of shop-worn touchscreens, that company chief Rohan Shravan estimates will affect only over 5 percent of all orders. Touchscreen retailer Sintek has betrothed to work by the Chinese New Year to refill that batch, so hopefully a bump back to Valentine’s Day will be a final, clearly fitting, a single for the Adam.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Although Rohan told us which his Adam tablet had cleared FCC contrast the few weeks ago, it’s not until today, only right away essentially, which we’ve seen the filing go open. For our troubles a FCC has finished us the plain of a full-blown teardown. And overtly, it’s not flattering. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised to see so many hand-soldered connectors as well as individual strands of wire encompassing the NVIDIA Tegra T20-H-A0 application processor as well as embedded Ericsson F3307 HSPA broadband module — it is, after all, the little startup’s initial mass-market device. But we’ve borne declare to many the splayings including the neat tablet teardowns of the iPad and Galaxy Tab. As such, a Adam comes opposite as the bedraggled disaster of suspect setup extravagant — great for modders, reduction great (potentially) for the average I-just-want-it-to-work consumer. Naturally, NI doesn’t have a pattern or production flesh of Apple or Samsung and with a tablet having only only right away shipped it’ll be months prior to we have the great thought about the device’s integrity. So flog back for now with the few of a more egregious components (like a swiveling camera) after the break with the rest piled up in the gallery below.
Notion Ink Adam hits a FCC, ripped apart in haste
There were tears of joy during the Notion Ink Adam launch, though additionally tears of contrition, as owners of a long-awaited Pixel Qi tablet who downloaded a very initial OTA update had their line-up brutally bricked. Thankfully, a Notion Ink team appears to have issued a rapid repair, as you can download a ROM without delay from a company’s website as well as flash it the comfort of your own home. Assuming you’ve got the Windows or Linux PC handy, it’s usually an 80MB download away, as well as you’ll find record links as well as the detailed set of instructions right after the mangle. We’ll additionally note which this gives the hacker community an appealing event to peek by a Adam’s code — if you find anything engaging, be sure to let us know!
How to flash your Adam and get it operative again
NOTICE
This repair is recommended usually if your Adam has stopped booting up after installing a over-theair
scheme refurbish upon 24 January. Please don’t make use of the method indicated to flash your Adam
with any ROM not from Notion Ink, as it would substantially damage your Adam irreparably.
Please read this whole request prior to move.
PRE-REQUISITES
You need to have the following equipment
1. A Windows or Linux PC
2. The Notion Ink Adam you instruct to peep
3. A mini-USB to USB wire for connecting a dual (It’s not included in the Adam package, but you might have a single fibbing around. If not, it’s straightforwardly accessible in any wiring shop)
4. The appropriate Adam Recovery Kit that you can download from the URLs next. (About 80MB)
DOWNLOADS
1. Windows PERSONAL COMPUTER, LCD Adam http://api.notionink.com/fix/windows/LCD.zip
2. Windows PERSONAL COMPUTER, Pixel Qi Adam http://api.notionink.com/fix/windows/PixelQi.zip
3. Linux PERSONAL COMPUTER, LCD Adam http://api.notionink.com/fix/linux/LCD.zip
4. Linux PERSONAL COMPUTER, Pixel Qi Adam http://api.notionink.com/fix/linux/PixelQi.zip
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Here’s the outline of what you’ll be doing:
1. On your PC, remove the Adam Recovery Kit.
2. Restart your Adam in “Force Recovery” mode and connect it to the PERSONAL COMPUTER.
3. If you’re on Windows, implement the USB drivers from a Recovery Kit.
4. Run the ROM flash application from your PERSONAL COMPUTER, as well as wait for for it to finish.
1. EXTRACT
Using your prime ZIP extraction apparatus, uncompress all the files in the Adam Recovery Kit to any printed matter on a tough drive of your computer.
2. RECOVERY MODE
Before proceeding, ensure that your Adam has at least 50% battery charge or is continuous to energy and charging. Also have sure which your mechanism will not turn off during a flashing process.
Turn off your Adam as well as enter force liberation mode by pressing as well as land both the VolumeDown (-) and Power buttons for dual seconds. The orange (charge) and red (CPU) indicators upon the right side of your device will light up, indicating which your Adam is in force recovery mode. Release both buttons, as well as bond a mini-USB pier upon your Adam to any gratis USB pier upon the PC regulating your wire.
3. INSTALL DRIVERS (Windows usually
Your Windows PC will uncover the presentation which the device “APX” has been rescued. If you get the “Found new hardware” dialog box asking where to implement drivers from – choose “list or specific place”. If you don’t get this dialog, open a Device Manager via System in a Control Panel, find as well as double-click a “APX” device, and click a update driver button. Select a “usbpcdriver” folder inside a extracted Adam Recovery Kit as the driver place. You might receive a notice that a driver is not certified or sealed by Windows – select to implement it anyway.
4. PEEP
You’re right away ready to flash your Adam. Make sure that a USB cable is connected securely. To proceed the process underneath Windows, run a “download.bat” collection file from a printed matter where you extracted a Recovery Kit. If you’re using Linux, open the console window at a folder containing the extracted Recovery Kit, and run ./download.sh. Your device shade will uncover that
it is being updated, and a console window will uncover a progress.
IMPORTANT: Do not close a console window or stop a update before it is complete. If a update is interrupted mid-way, your Adam will be shop-worn irreparably.
Hopefully all goes good, and in a integrate of mins your Adam will boot up with the brand new software. Congratulations! If at any point you find that things aren’t starting according to devise, please send an email to [email protected] rightaway.
Thanks for your continued support
Team Notion Ink
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Well, what do you know: Notion Ink only announced that it will proceed shipping the FCC as well as CE approved Adam tablet starting tomorrow today. If you pre-ordered, afterwards you should see your smoothness standing update shortly to a final week of January. That’s a lot improved than February and most, most improved than never which is regularly the risk when David takes upon a Goliaths. Now we’ll see how it holds up to real-world use — here’s anticipating for some of which great JooJoo.
P.S. For what it’s value, we’re still not saying the shipping version of Adam — product NI3421A01 with guarantee formula Y2G — in the FCC database. Anyone else?
[Thanks, Anthony]
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We don’t see it in a FCC database yet though Notion Ink’s charming Rohan Shravan just penned the post on a company’s blog with news which Adam has official clearance from the US government. That’s right, after multiform delays a little startup will eventually precipitate the occassionally vapory molecules into a plain slab of shipping inscription starting “around Wednesday” after a hardware receives the FCC permanent skin stain. A tablet good enough to earn a Best of CES 2011 honorable mention at an eventuality absolutely flooded with tablets from a who’s who of consumer wiring companies. While our initial impressions of a production unit were certain, we’re land off on making a final judgement until we’ve had the possibility to perform the full examination. Having pronounced which, Adam’s last NI3421A01 product formula is so nerdy — 3421 are consecutive numbers in a Fibonacci series — that we’re roughly tempted to place an sequence ourselves. Almost.
[Thanks, John]
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Just when it seemed a Notion Ink Adam had transient a pit of dubious pre-orders and changed onto a glowing preview stage, here comes an additional jump to outing up its 10-inch PixelQi shade. Android Police reports that US buyers have received email notifications that their orders are ready to boat out, solely for which little matter of FCC capitulation. We’ve yet to see a Adam pass the FCC — perhaps because it hasn’t done so quite yet — and the inscription will need to have the office work in order and be properly labeled prior to it can be imported into a US. Notion Ink insists which all the red fasten will be taken caring of “within this week,” and that some general orders have already shipped out. We’re hoping that’s a box — we’d hate to think of all those bad slates sitting in boxes, instead of getting a little sun.
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Notion Ink came underneath a bit of fire last week for the less-than perfect pre-launch event for the company’s most anticipated Adam tablet. On paper, a tablet looks like a most appropriate thing given sliced bread… or during slightest given the iPad, interjection to the NVIDIA Tegra 2 twin core processor, discretionary Pixel Qi arrangement, in accord with price tag, rotating camera, as well as custom software smoke-stack. But a little have questioned whether Notion Ink is upon the true and narrow, or if the product is even genuine, whilst others acknowledge which it would be formidable for the tiny startup from India to launch a product of this arrange without at least the few roadbumps.
In sequence to assistance transparent things up, Notion Ink founder Rohan Shravan has put together the demo video of the manufacture chronicle of the inscription. The video was initial sent to Android Police, a single of the web sites that initial raised questions about the company after Notion Ink started taking pre-orders. The video will also shortly be available at a Notion Ink blog, or you can check out a YouTube embed next.
Among alternative things, a video shows a Adam inscription running mixed applications simultaneously — with a custom user interface permitting you to actually see mixed windows at the same time — something that many Android devices won’t concede. That’s because of Notion Ink’s law “panel” driven user interface which radically lets you run 3 apps upon a same shade, such asn email ap, record browser, and weather widget.
You can also launch applications such as the map application in full-screen mode, and there’s a program launcher bar that you can pull up that zooms out to the center of a screen.
The program seems very manageable, as well as a video shows multitouch gestures such as splash to wizz and two-finger scrolling operative good.
The tablet additionally supports USB ride drive storage as well as peripherals such as the wireless mouse regulating a wireless dongle.
While a tablet comes with a law set of applications as well as Notion Ink intentions to release an SDK for developer to write brand new apps, it does not now ship with the Android Market given the inscription doesn’t encounter Google’s specifications. It’s possible Android Market access might come after Google releases Honeycomb, an upcoming chronicle of Android which willbe optimized for slates.
I’m still not transparent on why it took Notion Ink about the week to put this video together, but it’s really good to see the accomplished production unit using the program that will be shipping with the Adam tablet. The Adam inscription is accessible for pre-order right away, and a company says it should proceed shipping in January.
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As promised, Notion Ink has just expelled the video of a Adam tablet in action, complete with that snazzy new Eden UI — a initial anyone’s seen of the device given the initial working antecedent. While the footage itself is of disappointingly low quality, it seems to show a device somewhat estimable of the hype, with the responsive shade, the multitask-friendly interface as well as plug ‘n play peripherals — though we’re land out for Pixel Qi screen tests as well as some closeup shots before we place any orders ourselves. Notion Ink singled out outspoken censor AndroidPolice to launch the (seemingly deficient video as well as gave the publication an exclusive interview too, so take your slow doubts about a tablet’s capabilities and head upon down to the source links.
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It has positively been the longlong road for Notion Ink, though the association is finally opening a Adam tablet pre-sale gates currently. Now prior to you run off and squeeze your wallet, it appears which primary pre-orders will only be open to tried-and-true fans (apparently, they exist!) — Slashgear is stating which at 1:30 p.m. EST purebred commenters on Notion Ink’s blog will be sent a pre-order links. Then, about 6 hours later, a general pre-order page will be launched. Naturally, along with this headlines NI group is divulgence minute pricing, as well as as approaching, there are lots of models to select from. The entrance turn Adam will begin at $375.33 as well as will container the unchanging LCD as well as WiFi connectivity. Adding 3G shoots a cost up to $425.33. On the aloft finish there’s a Pixel Qi indication, that will begin at $499.95 with WiFi as well as $549.99 with 3G. As for program, the company’s also expelled a lot of details on a Android skin it’s been operative upon, and we have to say it looks flattering snazzy, yet we’d love to see this upon a working section. Either way, check out a screens in a art studio below.
Of course, there’s one major question left: when will a Adam finally boat? Well, you won’t be removing it in time for Christmas, that’s for sure — if all goes as programmed, they will be landing around January 6th. With that pronounced, the tablet still hasn’t privileged the FCC as well as we still haven’t seen any live photos of this stuff in action, so click that pre-order button at your own risk.
UPDATE: The order site is live right away, but there appears to have been vital issues with a pre-order process. AndroidPolice reports which the site was up and down as well as points to an incredibly questionable return process. Apparently, it has been altered utterly a few times, though as it stands right away, if you want to return a unit you will have to pay a 5 percent “repack” price and a five percent “use fee.” Oh, as well as there’s no reimbursement on a lapse shipping fees to India even if the product is “dead on arrival.” Crunchgear also says there were lots of payment issues.
On top of that, Notion Ink is citing which the device will right away boat in 6 to eight weeks — that’s longer than which January 6th date you listened. Like we pronounced, be wary, very wary! Notion Ink Adam UI screenshots
