05-25-2010, 10:24 AM | #1 |
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Is the Adam now vaporware?
With no updates on their site or blog (or anywhere else that I can find for that matter), has the Adam moved from interesting tablet contender to vaporware?
This is the one I was most interested in and looking forward to actually trying out. I guess if this one falls by the wayside all my hopes will rest with the Google tablet. |
05-25-2010, 02:25 PM | #2 |
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Afaik, never been anything else...
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05-25-2010, 03:04 PM | #3 |
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Hard to say. Last announcement was that it was delayed. But I'd say not hearing anything since doesn't bode well.
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I tend towards cynicism when small companies say they can get hardware based on new chipsets out before the major companies by more than a few weeks.
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05-26-2010, 01:44 PM | #7 |
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My guess is that the screens are pretty costly so companies are reluctant to put out devices with them right now as readers would probably cost more than the cheapest e-ink devices and tablets more than the low end iPad etc.
And thus they wouldn't be very competitive devices in the mainstream. |
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05-26-2010, 03:52 PM | #9 |
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I am currently in Seattle at SID Display week and just saw Mary Lou Jepson in the Qualcomm Booth. She was checking out the Mirasol Displays .
She was talking with a few other people so I didnt have a chance to speak with her directly but it sounded like Pixel Qi is ready for volume production. So between that and Froyo it looks like everything is in place now for the Adam. I'm going to try to catch up with her later today. |
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05-26-2010, 03:57 PM | #11 |
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Good to know. I figured they'd be even more pricey than e-ink screens, which are already very expensive compared to LCD etc. (i.e. the price of the Que with it's limited functions being purely a reader vs. the iPad).
If they are truly cheaper (like that $329 rumored price above) that could be a boon. Not a lot of people are going to pay the $700+ for the Que when they could get an iPad for $500. Even more so when some android and other tablets start rolling out at likely lower prices for not having the Apple tax. But if we can get some Pixel QI devices that can both do more than just display monochrome text and cost less than an iPad, they have a chance to do pretty well I think. Last edited by dmaul1114; 05-26-2010 at 04:00 PM. |
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Very little *production* price difference. However, EPLaR means the same is true of existing technologies. PVI is using otherwise hopelessly outdated plants to produce their e-ink screens.
How the market prices them? Ha, get real. |
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It depends how you define "impressive". OLPC sparked a round of low-cost classroom PC's, yes, but they themselves have supplied less than 5% of them, and the education philosophy they started pushing has been effectively abandoned.
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