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At the moment I do not really see why I would use a tablet computer. A touch screen laptop with a rotating screen sounds very appealing to me but a tablet doesn’t. It is way too start calling devices iPad killers. However, if I had to buy a tablet I would prefer Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet.

This tablet is powered by the Android, a very popular OS for phones and larger devices. It uses the next generation NVIDIA Tegra chipset with a Pixel Qi display. The Tegra is an incrediable chipset allowing devices to process full HD video streams while only using a little power. Combine this with the high tech display unit, which uses considerably less power and you start to understand why this device is much more appealing than an iPad.

This unit is not only more powerful than the iPad (capable of outputting full HD movies andplaying more graphic intensive games, the iPad can only handle 576p/480p) but the battery life is considerably longer than the iPad. Rohan Shravan, the CEO, suggested that the battery life of this device could be 2-3x longer than that what the iPad manages. According to Jobs the iPad manages 10hrs so this would be in the range of 20-30 hours.

Next week there is the Mobile World Congress where further details about this tablet will be announced. There will also be a demonstration of the Adam running flash; something that the iPad can’t do and probably won’t ever manage to do because of the closed user experience on the device.

During the conference Adam should be announcing an Applications Competition, similar to Google’s Android Developer Challenge. This will encourage software developers to design applications for the Adam tablet. It’s been suggested that there will be over 1 million Us Dollars in prizes to give away.

Continue reading to watch an old demonstration of the device in action.

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