2010- Year of the Tablet PC ?

Among the new sleek and cool technologies coming up in the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show said to be held on January 2010 a sleek tablet pc is gonna be released. Named as “Adam” which is designed in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

“It’s a ‘smartpad’, small enough to be carried anywhere and big enough to do anything” said one of it’s creators. It’s launched by 7 people including 6 from IIT and an MBA graduate who left their careers for bringing up this ‘next-gen’ device. Click here for Image preview

This cool tech device weights 770 gms, 0.6 inch thick, with 10.1 inch scratch resistant touch screen which comes loaded with features that are likely to ‘wow’ the user and ‘aww’ the other companies.

PIQ DISPLAY: It’s the first device to feature Pixel Qi display, which is easily affordable, power saving that allows to user to scroll through three different modes. Other than the LCD mode it can run the pc in low power, basic colour and trans-reflective mode and a very low-power, sunlight readable e-paper mode that fiddles the pressure on the eye. It’s a touch screen with fingerprint-resistant, which is quite useful now a days and the old touch screens blur the screen often as the fingers leave prints on the screen which gives user unclear appearance. ‘Oleophobic’ meaning oil-repelling, because our palms sweat often and ‘oleophobic’ screen removes a disadvantage of damaging the screen with sweat as often we can’t wipe our hands and surely it comes with Anti-glare coating that lets the user have an undisturbed view of the screen.

“We are the only ones to user Pixel Qi screens for Tablet technology. It consumes one-tenth of the battery compared with conventional LCDs” Founder and director, Creatives, Notion Ink.

TEGRA SYSTEM INTRODUCED: The company has also used Lithium Ion Battery which is said to hold up to 48 hours standby and rendering 8 hours of HD Video or 16 hours of Internet Surfing with WIFI enabled device. NVIDIA’s powerful and energy saving eight core Tegra system-on-chip which will empower the system with awesome speeds as well as ensuring long duration of the battery.

“We collaborated with the best in the industry to provide days in computing”, said Sachin Rahul one of the co founders. Some of the components inside Adam are Water, Ambient light and proximity sensors, accelerometer, assisted GPS, digital compass, in-built microphone and speakers. It will only be loaded with Flash memory or 16 or 32 GB with Secure Digital Card support.

It has three interfaces: touch screen, track pad loaded behind the screen allowing the user to use cursor from front or rear of the device and virtual keyboard. It’s 3 MP rotatable camera placed on it’s top can easily takes pictures within 180 degree.

The maker’s of this device wanted an OS, So they chose Android but the Android’s interface would appear stretched on the smartpad’s screen as Android was designed for mobiles, this issue is yet to be taken care of. Notion ink is making a deal with telecom providers in India and US to test this device for communication issues.

And at last here comes the part which you were awaiting for, Notion Ink assures the price of this cool device will be approximately Rs.15,000 when it’s out in the Indian, Eurpoean and U.S. markets in June 2010.

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