14 DAY TRIAL // The Adam tablet actually did well for itself, even without humongous marketing efforts, so Notion Ink is now working on a successor, called Adam II.
Notion Ink has chosen not to tackle this new challenge alone, having instead set up a partnership with Texas Instruments.
Instead of an NVIDIA Tegra platform, Adam II will employ a TI OMAP44xx processor.
The Texas Instruments TI OMAP44xx features PowerVR SGX5xx graphics and is supposed to have an easy time with multimedia playback and everything else the tablet will have to do.
Meanwhile, the software platform will be a modified Ice Cream Sandwich OS with Notion Ink's own “Modular Based Software Architecture.”
“Adam II will release the world’s first Modular Based Software Architecture which will further expand the scope of application development and use nearly every single hardware feature in a 'user customizable' application,” says the company.
“Drag and drop features will enable easy application modification and Open Source Module will further expand the use cases and tablet deployment. Node operations like in Blender, and 'Application Authoring Tools' are primarily aimed at non-programmers for composing applications, games and use-case flows in a drag-and-drop fashion, utilizing visual editors and behavior-based logic system.”
It should be mentioned that the Notion Ink Adam II is made unique by the Texas Instruments Wi-Link 7.0.
Essentially, Wi-Link combines the capabilities of GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and even FM transmit/receive into a single chipset. Furthermore, Adam II will boast the Phoenix Audio Power Amplifiers.
All in all, Adam II is shaping up to be quite a different successor compared to the original, one that can behave as “a logic analyzer, medical imaging device, signal acquisition and processing, 3D modeling and multi-media.”
Unfortunately, even though all of this information is official, the company did not say when availability is scheduled or what price people can expect.