When the world is closing in on the fact that e-readers and tablet PCs are going to be the future, there isn’t a doubt that Indian engineers wouldn’t come gritty with the challenge of walking stride for stride with the rest. In effort, a Hyderabad based six-man startup Notion Ink has developed an Adam tablet PC, which was first demonstrated at the CES last month and is now slated to be make a presence at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The Android based tablet is being tipped as the Apple iPad killer. This vast image is carried forward by Adam with its Nvidia Tegra chipset and the PixelQi display, the two facets which make the tablet highly efficient and take it a stride ahead of the iPad, this because the Adam would achieve twice the battery life and performance of the iPad.

The 10-inch Adam’s PixelQi screen allows the users to use it to read in the sunlight with the need of backlight, while the Nvidia Tegra chipset provides the tablet with the ability to play Flash and full HD videos. The developers plan to ready theie own app store for the Adam, which would “offer everything from apps, books, video, audio, to magazines, newspapers and comics.” There’s no word on the price, but we’re desperately waiting for this.

Adam currently runs on Android 2.1, and two versions are planned, one with the PixelQI screen, and one with a normal LCD backlit display. We also know that the Indian version of the Adam will not be 3G enabled as the infrastructure is practically non existent – “We won’t be using a 3G module in a region that is so sensitive to price.”

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