The Adam Notion Ink Tablet PC is now available for preorder from the Notion Ink blog. Many have pinned their hopes for an iPad killer on the tablet, a demo of which was shown off at CES way back in January.
Notion Ink's tablet was originally slated to run Android 2.2; the developers are hard at work updating it to 2.3, also known as Gingerbread, and may even end up running 3.0, or Honeycomb. According to the company's blog post on the preorders and OS update, this should afford the tablet better OpenGL ES and OpenSL ES support, VOIP, a multitouch keyboard, and better copy-paste features.
The tablet also has some pretty impressive hardware. Notion Ink chose to compete with Apple on screen size by using a 10" screen at 1024x600 resolution powered by and NVIDIA Tegra chip. Some models of the Adam also have "transflective" displays with two modes, full color and e-ink, that users can switch between by pushing a button.
The LCD Wi-Fi version will start at $375.33, and the 3G version at $425.33. The transflective display tablets will start at $499.45 for Wi-Fi, 3G at $549.99. There's still no shipping date, but the preorders are a hopeful step down the road from vaporware to reality.
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