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Notion Ink is an Indian company that designs tablets PCs and other computing products. The company announced its prototype Adam tablet

Adam tablet

The Adam Tablet is a tablet computer designed by Bangalore-based firm Notion Ink. The worldwide launch occurred on December 18, 2010 via a video released by Notion Ink detailing their Eden Interface...

on December 18, 2009.

History

Notion Ink was founded in May 2009 by Rohan Shravan, an engineering graduate from IIT-KGP

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is an autonomous engineering, technology and management oriented institute of higher education established by the government of India in 1951...

with the express purpose of creating the Adam tablet

Adam tablet

, an Android-powered Tablet PC

Tablet computer

A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

in partnership with nVidia

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

and Pixel Qi

Pixel Qi

Pixel Qi Corporation is an American company involved in the research of low-power computer display technology, based in San Bruno, California. It was founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who was previously the chief technical officer of the One Laptop per Child project.The company designs liquid crystal...

Features

Dual core Nvidia tegra 2 processor
Transflective display, made by Pixel Qi
Pixel Qi
Pixel Qi Corporation is an American company involved in the research of low-power computer display technology, based in San Bruno, California. It was founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who was previously the chief technical officer of the One Laptop per Child project.The company designs liquid crystal...
185 degree swivel 3.2 Megapixel camera
Full HD 1080 HDMI output
WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, 3G and GPRS
SD, USB + mini USB connectivity
Adobe AIR + Flash

Technical specifications

System on chip
- NVIDIA Tegra 250 with Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9
  ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
  The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore is a 32-bit multicore processor providing up to 4 cache-coherent Cortex-A9 cores, each implementing the ARM v7 instruction set architecture.-Features:Key features of the Cortex-A9 core are:...
Display
- 10.1" WSVGA (1024 x 600) with multi-touch
- Pixel Qi
  Pixel Qi
  Pixel Qi Corporation is an American company involved in the research of low-power computer display technology, based in San Bruno, California. It was founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who was previously the chief technical officer of the One Laptop per Child project.The company designs liquid crystal...
  
  display (optional): Transmissive, transreflective, and reflective modes
- Matte finish with anti-glare coating
  Anti-reflective coating
  An antireflective or anti-reflection coating is a type of optical coating applied to the surface of lenses and other optical devices to reduce reflection. This improves the efficiency of the system since less light is lost. In complex systems such as a telescope, the reduction in reflections also...
- Scratch and fingerprint resistant
Memory and storage
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
  DDR2 SDRAM
  DDR2 SDRAM is a double data rate synchronous dynamic random-access memory interface. It supersedes the original DDR SDRAM specification and has itself been superseded by DDR3 SDRAM...
- 1GB SLC
- 8+ GB Flash
  Flash memory
  Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It was developed from EEPROM and must be erased in fairly large blocks before these can be rewritten with new data...
- MicroSD Card support
Power and battery
- 3 cell 24.6Whr battery with universal charger
Camera
- 3.2 megapixel Auto Focus Swivel Camera
Communication
- WLAN - 802.11 b/g/n
  IEEE 802.11
  IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards for implementing wireless local area network computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are created and maintained by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee . The base version of the standard IEEE 802.11-2007 has had subsequent...
- Bluetooth
  Bluetooth
  Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
  
  2.1 + EDR
- WWAN
  WWAN
  A wireless wide area network , is a form of wireless network.The larger size of a wide area network compared to a local area network requires differences in technology....
  
  - 3G
  3G
  3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...
  
  HSPA
  High Speed Packet Access
  High Speed Packet Access is an amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access and High Speed Uplink Packet Access , that extends and improves the performance of existing WCDMA protocols...
Audio
- Stereo loudspeakers
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- Built-in microphone
Input/output ports
- USB 2.0 Host x 2
- Mini USB
- HDMI
  HDMI
  HDMI is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data. It is a digital alternative to consumer analog standards, such as radio frequency coaxial cable, composite video, S-Video, SCART, component video, D-Terminal, or VGA...
- MicroSD card slot
- SIM Card
  Subscriber Identity Module
  A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module is an integrated circuit that securely stores the International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the related key used to identify and authenticate subscriber on mobile telephony devices .A SIM is held on a removable SIM card, which...
  
  slot
- DC
  Direct current
  Direct current is the unidirectional flow of electric charge. Direct current is produced by such sources as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type. Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through...
  
  connector
Sensors
- 3-Axis accelerometer
  Accelerometer
  An accelerometer is a device that measures proper acceleration, also called the four-acceleration. This is not necessarily the same as the coordinate acceleration , but is rather the type of acceleration associated with the phenomenon of weight experienced by a test mass that resides in the frame...
- Ambient light sensor
- GPS
  Global Positioning System
  The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites...
- Digital Compass
Size and weight
- Thickness: ~14 mm (0.55")
- Width: 191 mm (7.5")
- Length: 269 mm (10.5")
- Weight: ~ 725g (1.6lb)
A bonus mystery feature, later revealed to be a FM radio.

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