Photo of Red and Black Adam Handheld Tablet reproduced from Notion Ink blog

There’s a comment flood at Notion Ink blog and on popular demand CEO Rohan Shravan has posted a few photos of the Adam tablet and has given a hint of [...]]]>

Photo of Red and Black Adam Handheld Tablet reproduced from Notion Ink blog

There’s a comment flood at Notion Ink blog and on popular demand CEO Rohan Shravan has posted a few photos of the Adam tablet and has given a hint of the EAP and roll-out phases. Although these pictures don’t seem to represent what is eventually going to roll out (next month we hope), they are pretty good to gauge the look of the revolutionary handheld tablet.

We have reproduced here the quite attractive red & black color model.

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The price is expected to be about $35 (INR 1500) which would drop [...]]]> The India government today unvieled a prototype of a handheld tablet targeted to students. The central minister for HRD briefed the attendees that this was a low cost computing-cum-network-access device for students and teachers and would be available through educational institutions by 2011.

The price is expected to be about $35 (INR 1500) which would drop down to $20 and ultimately to $10. The minister said “this is real, tangible and we will take it forward”.

Most of the parts to be used in this device are available off-the-shelf and some technology is being patented by the government. The device will have: Touchscreen, Multimedia, Searchable PDF Reader, Video-Conferencing, Storage and File-Compression.

The India government is looking up to corporate entities to participate in the project which is estimated to cost about $2.12 billions (INR 10,000 crores). Because the major portion of the investment is for connectivity and distribution logistics, we expect the telecom majors should be jumping on to the bandwagon.

The features leave me drooling and the price is verrry tempting. I take back my [...]]]> And to beat them all is an Indian team of seven geniuses based at Hyderabad who have demonstrated their Adam handheld tablet at the recent CES. Read more about this at India.com.

The features leave me drooling and the price is verrry tempting. I take back my invite to Steve in a previous post to look India ways. Do we really need the bl…ed iPad?

The iPad is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G enabled, has battery power for 10 hours, has a 24.3 x 18.9 cm multi-touch [...]]]> Well Steve Jobs has done it again. The iPad does look like something people have been waiting for since long in the mobile computing arena. 5 publishers provide over 1 million publications through iBooks!

The iPad is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G enabled, has battery power for 10 hours, has a 24.3 x 18.9 cm multi-touch led color screen usable in both portrait and landscape orientation, runs on a 1 GHz processor and is going to cost $499 for the basic model with 16GB storage and weighing 680 grams.

So, is it worth the wait (pun intended)? Steve feels the “bar is pretty high” to live up to public expectations for a computing genre between a smartphone and the laptop. To some, it’s just an upgraded iPod touch!

Industry watchers say book aficionados will still prefer cheaper ebook readers like the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader and those looking for mobile computing would prefer the net-book.

I dare to differ! If Apple does some improvement in the product like increasing processor power and storage, adding a webcam, making compatible with all ubiquitous software like “flash” and seamlessly integrating VOIP and still keep it under $500, then there’s a surefire winner. Steve! target the Indian market. It’s hungry for such a device – the market has still not picked up the smart-phones or the net-books with much enthusiasm because these fall just a wee bit short of the desired combined features from an Indian viewpoint. An improved iPad is what is badly wanted and I bet if you ran an advance booking campaign you would get 1 million orders on the opening day!

Beware, Google with their insight of the Indian market, could be already working secretly on this! India based HCL had a similar flip-top product with a 7 inch tablet, which did not take off much though retailing at under $250. They too could make a comeback with some improvement.

Well we are still waiting…

(Image courtesy Apple.com)

The 1st one are students. My pre-university (baccalaureate) daughter for one! I hate to see more than she herself does, her need to daily carry reference materials weighing almost [...]]]> As the world postulates and rumor mills do the grind, we will take a look at who will benefit the most with a handheld tablet pc technology.

The 1st one are students. My pre-university (baccalaureate) daughter for one! I hate to see more than she herself does, her need to daily carry reference materials weighing almost 10 pounds! I really look forward to touchscreen programs, which will convert the handheld tablet into a touchscreen reader. The hardware and software developers would also need to look into tie-ups with the text book and reference book publishers. This is my most favorite application for the handheld tablet pc. In fact, this thought was uppermost when I had the idea for this product and this website about 2 years back.

-Sri.