Notion Ink has been promising us details on the content partnerships lined up for their Adam slate, and the first of those deals has just been made public. LongBox Digital will be providing their digital comic system for Adam, which will allow browsing their catalog – with a rather slick animated UI which you can [...]
Notion Ink has been teasing us with an ongoing series on the design decisions behind their much-anticipated Adam tablet, and in their latest article they’re touching on the UI. Based on the OpenGL engine, the Notion Ink Adam UI will be “heavily accelerated” and use various 3D effects; however, the company also says that it [...]
Dan Lyons raises a provocative question in his latest Newsweek article: Is Silicon Valley still solving hard problems? After all, the “silicon” in Silicon Valley comes from its being the birthplace of the microprocessor. The magic of shrinking circuits gave rise to the computer industry, the Internet, and all of its offspring. In contrast, Lyons [...]
As potential customers wait all over the world for the official launch of Notion Ink’s Adam tablet, featuring Google’s Android mobile Operating System, yet showcasing plenty of proprietary customizations to the User Interface, and even applications, getting details on the upcoming tablet device are rare, and that’s why even hearing about color options is something [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Week in Review! Early in the week Fujifilm unveiled a cool new hybrid viewfinder digital camera called the X100. The little digital camera has a 13.2-megapixel sensor and retro style that looks really nice. Some details on HTC’s Android tablet surfaced early in the week. Those details point [...]
Galaxy Tab? Who needs that overpriced prima donna? Here’s the tablet the economical among us have been waiting for. Alright, so the Elocity A7 didn’t elicit the highest of praise when it made its cameo on The Engadget Show, but let’s congratulate its makers on achieving a pair of feats. Firstly, StreamTV has managed to [...]
E-Noa’s Tegra 2 based Interpad was one of those tablets we harboured quiet doubts over back in July, uncertain whether the company could beat big-name rivals to the market with their Android 2.2 slate. Having met the company at IFA 2010 this week, though, it seems they’re well on their way to making some sales. [...]
It’s the Engadget Podcast….to go! Would you like a little Joanna Stern with that? Easy on the Ziegler, buddy – and 86 the Paul, please. All that plus a special toy for kids ten and under that manage to listen all the way to the end. Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel Guests: Joanna Stern, Chris [...]
ASUS just dumped Windows Embedded Compact 7 for Android for its lower-end tablet devices, and CEO Jerry Shen is passing along the savings. He’s pledging that the 10-inch Eee Pad EP101TC, due to ship in March, will cost under $399 — and if the Notion Ink Adam is any indication that means it’ll be $398. [...]
Samsung is attempting to patent a dual touch-sensor device – such as a tablet or large smartphone – where both the screen up front and the back of the unit respond to touch and gestures. According to the application – “Mobile terminal having dual touch screen and method of controlling content therein” – the user [...]