Possible bad news for the Edge: Rumors of the Adam's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

A few weeks ago, the furtive Indian startup Notion Ink finally released "final" specs for its Adam tablet, and they were pretty formidable: true GPS, Pixel Qi screen and 3G on some models, Android 2.2 out of the box, and most of all the relatively powerful NVIDIA Tegra2 chip powering it. Yesterday they leaked a bombshell to Slashgear: the prices will range from $399 (for LCD screen with wifi only) to $498 (for PixelQi with 3G)...so the high end ADAM will cost the same as the cheapest Edge and the iPad (which of course has only an LCD and wifi). They claim that they'll be able to ship starting sometime between November and January depending on how quickly FCC certifies their compliance with the relevant regulations.

There's been discussion on various threads about the ADAM here, but I was curious to see what other people thought. As someone who bought the Edge because he felt sure the ADAM was turning into vaporware, I'm back to believing it actually is going to be released.