Not to mention that e-reader.com has an Android app for e-books from their store (which is a subsidiary of B&N). It also works with one other e-book store, and it ought to work with any Android device (including the Adam, and eDGe), but I suspect it wont have the special bindings that would work with the 2nd screen on the eDGe, nook, or Alex (so, I bet it will only display on the LCD screens that each of those have). In a way, that's a bit of a "win" for the Adam's methodology. But it should also work fine on the ICD android tablets, and the HP android tablet. Unfortunately, those don't have pixelqi displays (as far as I know).


Would I pay $499? Yeah, if I had to. I think the $300 +/- $50 estimate that was on several CES rumor blogs would be amazingly cool. But, if I'm willing to pay $450-$500 for the eDGe, and I like the Adam more, then I ought to be willing to pay that much (or a little more) for the Adam.

However, there's one big IF attached to that $300 price tag. It might be a "subsidized price" (one of the rumors says the founder/creator said "$300", and another one of the rumors says that he also said "it will be subsidized"). If that's the case, then the unsubsidised, or "no 3G", price could be a lot higher. So ... we just have to wait and see. Hopefully they'll make their April ship date (some of their stuff says June, but in one of the interviews at CES, he was asked for a ship date, and he said April).

Come June, I doubt I'll own an Apple Tablet (real or not), but if the reality of the other tablets I'm interested in doesn't pan out, and the Apple Tablet does pan out ... then it _could_ happen. I might own an eDGe, HP, or ICD tablet (if the 11" comes out). Hopefully, though, instead of any of those, I'll have an Adam. :-)

(that's pretty much my short-list of tablets that I'm interested in, in descending order of interest:
Adam
eDGe/HP*
ICD
Apple)

(* not sure if I like the HP more or less than the eDGe ... the eDGe has an e-paper screen, but the HP only has one screen so there's no app confusion and compatibility oddities, and it should have KVM support ... hard to weigh those against each other; but the ICD is 11", so even if it becomes real, it's just slightly larger than I want to consider)