[BRK]

The biggest problem with the I-pad is lack of Flash support. Whatever Apple claims about technical problems, the fact is that Flash would allow it’s user’s access to mutlimedia content not found in Itunes. Oh well, Apple has designed the I-pad as they see fit and they are allowed to set thier own marketing rules. If I don’t like the I-pad, then I might can look at this device as an option. The Free Market at work in our Free Republic.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Other options...

Quanta Tegra 2 prototype hands-on

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Quanta, the company that produces plenty of the hardware you know, love and fantasize about today, is showing off a new tablet prototype at NVIDIA's booth. The reason for its location is the Tegra 2 chip inside (you can see it in the nude over here), which can comfortably drive 1080p out via a HDMI cable and into your nearest HD display, while offering brain-melting battery life. Listening to music with the screen turned off can be done for 140 hours straight, and HD video playback can go on for up to ten hours -- both figures that make current battery efficiency look kinda silly. With WiFi, 3G, and Android for an OS, this prototype could be quite a nice little device, but right now there are more things wrong than right about it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well we have this:

Notion Ink Adam: Flash, iPad comparison & App Competition

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Monday, Feb 8th 2010

One of the most exciting products from CES 2010 last month was Notion Ink’s Adam tablet, the Android-based slate using the latest-gen NVIDIA Tegra chipset and Pixel Qi’s innovative low-power display.  The company had brought along a prototype they could exclusively show us, and now they’ve sent over renders of what’s likely to be the final Adam design complete with some mockups of a SlashGear digital magazine.  And, since Apple’s long-awaited entrant to the tablet arena – the iPad – has since made its debut, we also asked Notion Ink just how Adam holds up to the new competition.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Searching for an answer on Flash...found this:

Adobe's Flash to ship on new Android phone

June 24, 2009 2:26 PM PDT

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Adobe demonstrated Flash on Android in an online video Wednesday, showing off the technology for watching a trailer at Yahoo Movies, playing the Penguin Swing game, and selecting a region on travel site Expedia. Double-clicking on the Flash element on the Web page runs it full screen.

[dan1123]

The biggest problem I see is it has no option for pen-input.

Typing on a touchscreen is not why I would buy a tablet computer. I want to be able to quickly sketch out diagrams with my ideas at meetings and such, and the pogostick “stylus” is not a good substitute.