After running the serious risk of looking like vaporware, Notion Ink’s prices have been revealed for the Adam tablet, which runs Android on a Tegra chip. Sounds like we’ll still have to wait another six or so months, though.
According to SlashGear‘s sources, there’ll be four different models of the Adam. One will use the superior Pixel Qi display, the other an LCD panel. Then, customers will have to decide between Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and 3G.
The cheapest model, the LCD Wi-Fi only one will cost $US399, or $US449 for the 3G version. Over to the Pixel Qi model, which will cost $US449 for Wi-Fi only, or $US498 for the 3G one. All models will apparently come with an iTunes-like download store called Genesis pre-loaded, which will sell ebooks, music, movies and apps.
When will the Adam be available? After suffering delays thanks to Tegra 2 issues, Notion Ink hopes it will be submitted to the FCC for certification between November – December. That could mean the chances of owning this spiffy Android tablet before January is very slim indeed.
While Notion Ink hasn’t confirmed the above prices and availability, they have put a link to SlashGear’s article on their company blog, saying “Interesting article on SlashGear!” Interesting indeed. [Notion Ink via SlashGear]
Adam
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 9:08 AMI want one purely for the name, but can i wait that long
Tony
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 9:44 AMI want to buy several but I will not wait forever (the relevant saying is “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush!”).
Product has very good specifications. It will remain as vaporware until it is physically available for sale and I do not mean pre-orders. Company’s technical skills better than their “bring product to market” skills; having interfering investors makes situation worst. Longer they take to release gives competitors more opportunity to grab larger slice of consumer market (commercial reality is that once a consumer has bought a product they are unlikely to later buy a similar but better product!). Only way I can see for them to regain credibility is to invite technical journalists to visit them and allow them to examine and take apart the Adam in whatever form it is in and to publish their views without inhibitions; also a global release may be necessary to heighten people’s interest in order to counteract the Company’s loss of marketing/release momentum.