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Originally Posted by Sonist
I am not sure why anyone is excited about this.
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Exactly. I got swept up in the excitement 9 months ago, when the story was Adam's David vs iPad's Goliath. You could read it in sunlight! A relatively open system! Would they deliver?
But the answer is, well, no. They didn't deliver.
They might yet deliver...
something. But the market's moved on. 2011 is going to be full of tablet releases. Most of them will have expandable storage, USB ports, webcams, accelerometers, GPS, etc. And many will have HDMI, good processors and graphics chips.
What has the Adam got to stand out?
The PixelQi screen? Well, that's still a maybe. There will be people who want to read their machines regularly outdoors, yes. But at the expense of a poorer display indoors? And 1024x600 is suited for widescreen movies (outdoors?), but it's not great for pdfs, and 1024x768 is also better for browsing books and the web. If 2010 has done anything, it's made me realised that I want a 4x3 form factor in a tablet rather than widescreen.
Long battery life? Yes, but again at the expense of a bright screen display indoors, and still not in the same league as eInk for the readers among us. We've not seen consumers shy away from the Galaxy Tab's 6 hour battery life compared to the iPad's 10 hour one. It seems that once it gets over 6 hours for an active display battery life drops down the priority list.
A swivelling camera? Useful perhaps, but not likely to be the unique selling point.
I really do wish the Adam well, but I can't shake the feeling that they've missed the boat.
Graham