Just couple of hours left from the Apple Showdown!…Have your dinner and come back right here…By the time, you can also look at rumor round-up and also look at other details like specs and stuff like iPad 2 price in India.

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……Live blog: Apple Event, March 2, 2011……

• Well, the crowd has turned in big numbers and everyone is just waiting for someone to take the stage.
• Gosh! the magical man is here himself….huge applaud for Steve Jobs! Nobody expected him to attend the event but that’s the Apple factor.
• Steve is briefing up the past successful products….iPod, iPhone and the latest being iPad.
• Steve is also boasting the success of iBooks which got over 100m downloads in such short span.
• 100Mn iPhones sold…Another big milestone !
• Apple sold 15Mn iPads last year. More than total tablets devices ever sold. Awesome!
• iPad commands more than 90% of tablet market share right now.
• 65000 iPad apps in App Store.
• Steve showing up slides featuring iPad getting used in daily work by various people in different industries.

• Now some rants on iPad competitors. Steve calling them Copycats!
• And here comes the iPad 2..Huge applaud!
• Steve is going through all the salient features of iPad 2.
• In short, the new iPad 2 is lighter, slimmer and multi-folds faster than previous iPad.
• It’s got cameras, VGA on the front and 720p at the rear side.
• Gyroscope, HDMI Output comes as well
• iPad 2 will come in black as well as White.
• And did we forget to say that the battery performance will not at all be affected with all the iPad 2 enhancements
• The pricing remains the same. Bingo!
• …For more details, read full specs and iPad 2 Price info here…
• Now Steve is talking about the smartest accessory of all, the iPad 2 Smart Cover. No more cases required.
• Now you can get a light-weight Smart-cover that self-cleans the glass surface, sticks to the surface with magnetic hinges, folds in seconds and becomes a stand for vertical viewing/Photo frame. Made up of Poly-urethane and leather. 10 color options.
• Hurray! Facetime(Wi-Fi video calling) comes to iPad 2
• iPad 2 will land on both AT&T and Verizon.
• Launching March 11 in U.S. Will be launched in 26 more countries by March 25, 2011
• Now some video about iPad 2 and how amazing it is…
• Now, the talk is shifting to iOS 4.3
• iOS 4.3 brings lot of things on board such as ‘Personal Hotspot’ !
• Lots of other iOS 4.3 improvements….
• Well, the major things are done. Some video playing up right now and that’s it!
• Event wrapped up. Hands-on time!
• Thanks for joining us in this live-blogging event with us over here…

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Feature-wise, Notion Ink Adam beats any other existent tablet device hands down. From 10.1-incher PixelQi display that enables dual display(LCD/e-paper) modes to USB port availability, from 3.2 MP Auto Focus Swivel Camera to Integrated stereo loudspeakers, the list goes on and on…

From hardware perspective, this uniquely designed and feature-packed Android beast is by far the best Android tablet produced this far, well above the widely advertised Samsung Galaxy Tab or even Apple iPad but early product reviewers have reported some sluggishness of the Android UI customized for Notion Ink Adam.

Here are full tech specs of  Notion Ink Adam:

Size+Weight

• Thickness: ~14 mm
• Width: 191 mm
• Length: 269 mm
• Weight: ~1.6 pounds

Here’s a video demo of the Notion Ink Adam…

As Notion Ink Adam is already in the pipeline to get FCC approval, it may become available in US during Christmas holidays or early 2011. The company behind Notion Ink Adam is targeting global audience so Europe and Asian markets will also get to have the tablet during the same timeframe. Pricing will remain competitive, that is, ranging around $400-500 or Rs.20k-25k.

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With loads of media speculation over this new category of device and the possibility of success or failure of iPad, it was tough to guess the real fate of iPad before April 3. Now, with early sales estimates pouring in, its quite apparent that Apple has certainly created a new category of device, which is revolutionary and disruptive in several regards.

According to an estimate by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple sold as many as 7,00,000 iPads on the first day of its public launch. It takes no genius to estimate that Apple must have sold more than 1 million iPads by the end of Day Two, that’s April 4. Now, compare that to the 74 day time period that iPhone took, to get to the figure of 1 million and you will easily realize what’s the probable future of iPad.

One much note here that Apple is not yet selling iPad with WiFi+3G model, the preferred option for anyone who wants to take along iPad just about anywhere.When 3G enabled model comes into the market, iPad sales are bound to explode. And further, when more tablets will jump in, Apple will drop the iPad prices for staying competitive and lift the sales.

But what the key factor in this early success of iPad ? It’s the Apple Fanboys !

It has become more of a ritual for people, aka Fanboys to queue up in front of Apple Stores all across the U.S. before any such product launch and get the iPod/iPhone/iPad on Day 1 itself. And probably, it just Apple that enjoys such a committed following, not even Google.

No doubt, iPad is just awesome in many regards but it’s actually the millions of Apple fanboys that don’t even need to touch yet-to-launch Apple gadgets before pre-ordering the device weeks before getting it in their palms.

There are plenty of slate device alternatives available like WePad or many others will soon be available so why hurry for a WiFi only iPad Slate device right now ? That’s what a sensible guy would think, not an Apple Fanboy.

The war between the Slate devices is bound to get hotter and more interesting as the time passes by. We’re keeping an eye over that.