Thread: Notion Ink's Adam on Pre-Order!
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Old 12-11-2010, 09:54 AM   #50
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Device: Kindle 2, PRS-600 Black, PRS-650 Red, Adam w/ Pixel Qi(pre-ordered)
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Originally Posted by Mastiff View Post
I can't really see anybody being out $600, since VISA should cover the amount if something happens. That's the beauty with plastic instead of wire transfer (and it should lead to a mandatory head examination every time anybody are stuipd enough to use that).
I was assuming I would actually get the Adam, but that it wouldn't do what I wanted. Does VISA cover that? I'd be surprised if they did. I think at the worst Notion Ink's applications won't work the way I want them too, but I think with being the Android OS, I'll be able to find one that is acceptable. From what I've read the hardware should be compatible with Android 3.0 and we should see an update sometime in 2011.

I've seen some say they thought a 7" reader would be fine. I've tried reading PDFs formatted for 8.5" x 11" on a 6" reader and I can't see that being a viable solution. Even in Landscape the text is still too small. I think a 10" reader will be borderline for this functionality.

I do sort of wish that this thing was running a Windows OS so I could install my Rosetta Stone on it, but other than that I think all of the programs I'd want to run are either on it or available for it. I'm probably going to see if I can't learn how to write programs for the Android anyway. Not professional programming, just for my own entertainment.

I'm sure me and others of the Mobileread forum will give our opinions of this device sometime in January.

There was some talk about VISA's fraud prevention kicking in on these transactions. They had called my house Friday morning. I returned the call and said I did the transaction on purpose. I got several calls to my work number throughout the day, but they hung up until the end of the day when I found out it was again the VISA fraud prevention. Very strange, but I've had similar responses before when I made some purchases from Russia. People are making too big of a deal out of this. If you don't normally make purchases from India, it is going to set off a fraud alert every time. After they got used to me making occasional purchases from Russia, the fraud alerts stopped.

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