An eyeful of Adobe's Android / Tegra prototype tablet running Air
By Ross Miller 
posted May 5th 2010 8:32PM
posted May 5th 2010 8:32PM
After getting a pretty great glimpse of Adobe's Tegra 2- and Android-powered prototype tablet yesterday, we decided to head over to the Web 2.0 Expo show floor ourselves to get some first-hand impressions. Unfortunately, the company couldn't get a single website to open (Flash-based or otherwise) given lackluster WiFi, leaving us with only a tease of its power via an Air-based slideshow. To drive home what we heard yesterday, this prototype isn't being prepped for release at any point in the future -- more so, this is to serve as a showcase for the future potential of Adobe on Tegra 2 tablets. We'll stop by again tomorrow morning and hope the show floor's connection will be better by then, but in the meantime, enjoy the smattering of pictures and video we managed to get this afternoon.
baby got back!!!
@moggyx
Thicker than a Snicker!
@BrandonHarris When are we going to stop equating stuff like this to actual production devices like the ipad.
Imagine, the best defense the competition now has is just vaporware. Talk about Apple sending others back to the drawing board!
@moggyx
this is what happens when you don't exercise your electronics...they get, um, chubby. its ok though, nutrisystem d will be delivering orders via flash soon enough
@jaffreywali
Couldn't have said it any better. Seems like the "competition" is completely stumped right now. However, I think a webOS tablet could be verrry interesting.
@moggyx that thing is so huge, they might as well demo this on a modbook and it would prove the same thing.
@moggyx Your mother is so fat. How fat? She's so fat the Adobe Tegra Prototype Tablet would look small if she held it...
@moggyx Baby got a VGA connector too! Where's the parallel port and floppy drive?
@moggyx Then suddenly, it became fat. Sticking to the chrome tablet. http://j.mp/tablet-concept-from-google
@moggyx I'd sooner have have a tablet with a butt like a truck than a device from a company who have a thin fetish which places ascetics above producing a practical product that sits on the knife edge of having just enough power, being cooled just enough, and being just good enough not to suck - but marketed like hell to the clueless in the marketplace.
@kawaiigardiner
Sure dude, whatever rocks your boat. Now you and all your tech-buddies all go out and buy yourself a piece of vaporware the size of a truck and be happy with it, then maybe some company will some day sell more than the 64 JooJoo's.
And then they say people who like Apple have been drinking too much of the Kool-Aid... Dumbass...
@drange
huh, seems with have an apple fanboy
you know the ipads a hunk o' junk right?
i mean, the joojoo sold 64 units, and that things technically as specced up as the ipad, yet apple made the ipad so instantly gets 1 million sales, you know, not saying theres any link between apple fanboys and stevey boys crap, but it seems odd :)
"i need to load it then you can video tape it"
@Eraser LOL
@Eraser
How is it that these conferences always have such lousy Wi-fi?
That is one fatty tablet
@Look4Wally It's easily as thick as three iPads stacked on top of each other, and yet it performs like half of one.
@winbsodos
Maybe thats because it's a prototype and not meant for real world use?
@winbsodos Really? Do you have any links to Tegra 2 vs iPad tablets in a benchmark setting to show the lack of performance?
@Look4Wally It's just the Tegra 2 development board with a screen. You can buy one from the NVIDIA developer store for a couple hundred bucks (though you have to be approved as a member to access that store).
@Anatidae No, but I have eyes... and an iPad (something you seem to lack). The whole experience just looks jerky and unresponsive, embedded HTML5 videos on iPad blow these videos out of the water.
Real world performance > spec sheets
@Look4Wally
I just left the expo hall after going hands on with the tablet. I can definitely attest to the fact that the case was mostly empty. With a manufactured case, the contents of the tablet could fairly easily fit in something about the size of a ipad.
It really looked like it was just the mainboard from a netbook with the tegra chipset on a separate card.
@Look4Wally
I really hope that's only thick because it's a single build to show capabilities...
And I hope engadget doesn't ruin my day again by announcing in a few months that this is just vaporware-techno trend of the season(aside from leaking everything 'somehow').
@winbsodos wow I didn't know you could also get a tegra 2-based tablet to compare the two first-hand. it's a prototype. the ipad had many months of polish to get running so smoothly. That, and this is demonstrating adobe air, and not HTML5.
@winbsodos Embedded HTML5 blows this out of the water on the iPad huh? lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
There's your proof right there.
@Volker that blows for shure.
@Look4Wally
Here's another tegra tablet more close to production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vkL7hiV1aw&hd
That chick sounds so clueless.However, I have to say, Android looks pretty snappy on Tegra2.
@ComeShot
Agreed....why the hell don't they train these people? I guess you know can always tell which companies came to represent and which ones decided to half-ass it.
Shes' a brick.... house.
Adobe can never deliver anything on time...not holding my breath!
I want a tablet running the latest Ubuntu.
@Trickymaster
Same here. No love for Ubuntu.
@Trickymaster +1
It would have been nice , if atleast they could demo the OS on Big screen ....pretty excited abt this :)
Damn... that kinda kills the whole "tablet" concept
@rydewnd2 what part of early prototype do you not understand?
Is this the same Failblet that have been floating around?
"Durrr I'm so glad I didn't buy an iPad, this one's got Flash..."
*Flash crashes browers*
"uh...."
Apparently, the owner of the video already edited that part out. Pathetic.
@winbsodos It is. Flash crashed this tablet a couple times. They just editted it out of the video that's linked above. You can find the rest of the video on youtube.
@Narutogrey Classic fail.
@42 Here's the unedited bit where it crashes:
http://www.youtube.com/v/3hqFTx8rLsg
@42 That wasn't edited out, that's a completely different video.
@cloud858rk Correct. That video was not done by/with Engadget. In any case, crashes in a beta software isn't anything new. What's to look out for here is the smoothness of things.
hahah...this thing is so fat, for all we know it packs a crazy 3Ghz dual core desktop-grade processor or something that allows it to run flash the way it does...
jk...I can't wait until things like this become a reality!
@sandaboy It's a Tegra development board in lots of plastic:
http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/tegra-dev-kit-mounting
Nothing that will be going to production.
shocking
Awesome a 2" thick Tablet. What is this the 90's?
@Jaylittles531 What is this, people don't understand what "prototype" means day?
@AndrewNeo -- "What is this, people don't understand what "prototype" means day?"
That's true.
But the thing that this is supposed to be better than has been out for one month... and has sold 1 million of them.
I'll probably get downranked... but "Great Artists Ship"
@AndrewNeo Prototype - A prototype is a new type of machine or device which is not yet ready to be made in large numbers and sold.
Number one its not a new type of machine. Its already been made by someone. Number two most prototypes look in some way like the final product. This is just a flip tablet running a OS thats not Windows.