Notion Ink Adam Android Tablet

Notion Ink doesn't have much of a track record in the United States, but a clean slate may work to its advantage. Their Android-based Adam tablet boasts a sleek enough design, but more impressive are its Tegra 2 guts and promised 16-hour battery life. It'll output at 1080p on its 10-inch, 1024x600 display, which the iPad can't. It has a 3MP camera—on a swivel, for front and back facing—HDMI and USB ports where the iPad has none, and yes, a browser that supports Flash.

Secret Weapon: The Adam's Pixel Qi screen is downright revolutionary. It's got a backlit LCD mode for web browsing, but can be easily switched to a low-power electrophoretic reflective mode—which looks a lot like E-Ink—that's easier on the eyes for eBook reading and bumps battery life up to a purported 160 hours.

Achilles Heel: The screen, the manufacturer and the device are all untested. Aside from a hands-on with a prototype at CES and some leaked video, we haven't seen much of Adam, and won't be able to even passively endorse it until we do. It's one thing to promise the moon; it's another to deliver it.