HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer |
HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet ComputerProduct By Hewlett Packard Average customer review:  HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer Rating on July 27 Rating: Available From 21 Sellers  |
 | HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer 4.5 out of 5 from 84 user reviews. |
Product Description
Here it is finally.
The long-awaited HP TouchPad (formerly Topaz), HP tablet house, was officially unveiled yesterday
We start from the beginning: what did HP TouchPad that have no other tablet? To look at, seems like a lot of others.
The difference compared to the most popular Motorola and Apple iPad Xoom is its operating system: HP Touchpad not have either Android or iPhone OS, or Windows 7, but an OS is completely developed in-house, called WebOS, now in version 3.0.
The complete features, in final form, the new HP touch pad tablet, are as follows:
- 9.7-inch multitouch display
- Max Resolution 1024 x 768
- Snapdragon processor 1.2 GHz
- Gyroscope, accelerometer
- Hard drive comes in two versions, 16 and 32 GB
- Front room and support for video calls
- GPS in the 3G version
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Speackers integrated
Technical Details
- Brilliant 9.7-inch diagonal LED backlit multitouch display
- Seamless multitasking with HP webOS 3.0 and essential productivity apps
- Exclusive Beats Audio for studio-quality sound
- 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core APQ8060 processor
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214 of 221 people found the following review helpful.
From a dedicated apple fan... This IS a good deviceBy D. Higgins
I'm an admitted mac guy, I have the iPhone 4, iPad, Macbook Pro, etc...
I have to share my support now with the HP TouchPad. The webOS 3.0 is really pretty amazing. I didn't think it would make much of a difference in the use of a tablet, but it's outstanding, and here's why:
1) The integration of so many mainstream services used today. (they probably have some fancy term for this concept)
2) Flash plays well
3) Services missing on the iPad like Grooveshark and Amazon's cloud music all work.
First, the services:
On my TouchPad, I setup my
Email (yahoo, google, and microsoft exchange)
Skype
Dropbox
AIM
(there were others, but I don't use snapfish, and photobucket, etc... even a "find others")
I love this integration of all these mainstream services! It's really clever.
While my iPad seems very app-centric, webOS 3.0 feels more like "the matrix has you". It takes your online world and puts it into the tablet. I love that. All of those websites I often interact with get glued together seamlessly so I feel like I'm "jacked in".
A major strength of the TouchPad is the web functionality that won't work on the iPad. For example, I ran Amazon's cloud music player and Grooveshark just fine (awesome!).
On the down side, the apps are slim, but trust me, they will be coming fast and furious over the next year, like a modern-age gold rush. As someone who has ported over my C++ game engine and product ( atPeace ) to TouchPad from IOS, I can tell you that it was pretty easy, and others will certainly follow. This version 1 of the product is the closest any tablet is to competing with Apple, developers will soon be pouring over.
My only real gripe is not having NetFlix working with it yet. That's coming I'm sure, but something I use on my iPad a lot, and I miss. :(
All in all, I'd say if you want something for business, or to have a tablet built around your online presence, or just a good tablet which can run flash, this might be for you. I still love my iPad, don't get me wrong, but for a long time I didn't see why anyone was realistically imagining they could compete with the iPad. I mean, Apple does it sooooo well. Well, now I understand why. WebOS 3.0.
Don't discount this device, it's got great potential. We finally a good competitor for Apple in the tablet world, which should make both products improve.
61 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
YOU MUST CHECK OUT THE HP TOUCHPAD FOR YOURSELF!!!By wilsoncraft
Finally I have my own tablet to keep. After months of researching and trying out devices, I have settled on the HP TouchPad.
My primary need for a tablet is to allow me to do activities for my job without having to carry a laptop around. This includes lots of reading of online material in various file formats, VPN to the office, attend meetings, playing demos/videos in flash, making presentations, taking notes, working with IM, and email (typical tasks).
My son (12 years old) has the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with HoneyComb 3.1. It's a nice tablet, great display, but I'm not crazy about the 16:9 format. The HoneyComb is good for surfing and has a lot of apps to play with, but overall the OS still seems quite unrefined and clunky.
For about a week I had an IPAD2, and it was a very nice tablet, easy to use, great display, and tons of Apps. The main problem for me was the lack of flash support. I didn't realize how much my work required Flash until I had a browser that wouldn't support it. I gave the Puffin browser a try, but its Flash support was terrible. IOS 4.3 is refined, however, I still found it to be clunky when switching between apps (multi-tasking).
For both the Android and Apple tablets, the keyboard was OK, but I use a lot of special symbols and having to flip between multiple keyboard displays was slow, tedious, and sometimes frustrating.
WebOS..I loved WebOS on my Palm Pre + (Verizon) with the Card Interface for multi-tasking, but it needed more refinement, flash support, and the hardware itself was cheap, screen and keyboard was too small, and didn't hold up very well.
HP TouchPad ... WebOS 3!
Love this tablet. I bought one today (July 4th) at Best Buy in Knightdale, NC. Even though the sales associates pushed the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the IPAD 2 and even though they didn't even bother to put the HP TouchPad out on display I asked them to dig out the demo unit of the TouchPad and then gave it a good run-through.
At first, you do notice the tablet is a bit thick (but comfortable to hold) and the shiny black case is a major fingerprint magnet, but once you get into the OS and start to truly multi-task, its awesome. The WebOS Card interface is extremely intuitive and easy to use. The browser works great and supports flash well. The keyboard is a joy to use as it is your basic qwerty keyboard with the number row on top and also the common special symbols on the same layout easily accesible via the SHIFT key. Also...as some of you may already know, the keyboard size is adjustable.
Today I setup my TouchPad to VPN into my office (the IPAD2 did VPN very well too, however, HoneyComb didn't have a builtin VPN client that was compatible), setup MS Exchange synchronization (worked flawlessly) and downloaded a few apps. Browsing is fast and supports most of the sites I visit.
There does need to be more apps available for the TouchPad and I believe they will come.
Evernote is to come out I believe (HD format) and NetFlix. These will be two very welcomed additions.
I would also love to see a Webex client for the TouchPad and integrate into the browser as a plugin too.
If it wasn't for the Flash issue on the IPAD2 I would've been more tempted to keep it, but the WebOS is truly a joy to work with.
The hardware of the TouchPad is nice (great display, 4:3 format, decent speakers, mini usb port), however, it would be nice if they could include a full sized USB port and SD Card Reader like the Toshiba Thrive is going to have. It does not have a rear-facing camera, but personally I don't care as I didn't buy a tablet to take pics and videos (my Panasonic GH2 does a great job of that :) )
Please check out the TouchPad. It deserves a look! Don't get sucked into the negativity from IPAD and Android fanboys/fangirls on the web, as they have their own vested interest for TouchPad to not succeed. Best Buy employees, don't poo poo the TouchPad until you have a chance to learn what it can do. The demo app from HP (only comes on the demo units) does make the tablet seize up at times. Before the demo app was loaded it worked fine. My TouchPad works fine at home (no demo app).
Even if you had a Palm device before with WebOS and hated the hardware, check out the TouchPad and give HP a chance.
Good luck with your tablet adventure...
Hopefully in time the prices will come down a little more across the board.
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WIRELESS PRINTING UPDATE
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Again I'm impressed...
I already had a Wireless HP 6500 printer in my home. Under settings, I went into the printer setup icon and the TouchPad automatically found the wireless printer on the network it was using. Printing out a document from a web page was simple, just select print from the menu, selected the pre-discovered wireless printer and then bang, document prints out.
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Email Notification Update
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Email notifications work very well in WebOS and is quite convenient. My email is configured for two private accounts (hotmail and gmail) plus my MS Exhange account at work. Email notifications pop up from all three sources in the upper right-hand corner, I can simply swipe away an email notifications that I'm not particulary interested in from the notification stack or tap it to open the email.
For the most part, the features of this TouchPad really do work.
89 of 93 people found the following review helpful.
A tried and true iphone user, blown away.By Kyle
I have used an iPhone for going on two years and I don't see that changing for quite awhile, but I was always leery of the iPad because I always thought it was just a big iPod Touch, with a better screen. Well I started to look for a tablet about 5 months ago, and thought for sure, after the big uproar about the iPad 2, that I would have one soon. Well after trying in store several times, I just wasnt blown away. It just took my iPhone bigger, it didnt introduce anything new, it didn't change anything, the UI, had some slight modifications, and apps did look better on a bigger screen, but it wasn't nothing that blew away. Then came the touchpad.
First I saw the commercial, then I found out about the open source movement inside of WebOS, and how unlike Apple, there was no cat and mouse games, Palm didn't support it, but didn't block it. I saw the UI, it was much appealing than Android, which to me looks chaotic and not the clean simplicity that we all come to expect from a google product. Although it wasn't as "nice" looking as iOS, and it didn't run as smooth as it, WebOS made up for it with true multitasking, and a clean enough looking UI to make an iOS lover happy.
Then came the specs, full web access, web developers no longer need to build a site just for the device, the device can handle anything you through at it. It has been an experience for me, who has had to manage which sites I could view on my portable device and which ones I *had* to view on my pc, now my touchpad takes care of all of it.
But enough about the pros, because there is some cons. Apps are limited compared to iOS (Not a huge con for me, give me a working Twitter client, an email client, and a couple games, and I'm happy, but I'm not everyone). The OS, has some flaws, which may be more to me learning to using the device than anything else, but the flaws are there. It seems sluggish from time to time, but an OTA update coming out soon should fix that. And it does need some improvement when it comes to handling documents, this maybe more of a personal presence but I feel any tablet should be able to handle any microsoft doc you throw at it.
All in all, I love my touchpad, and see me using it more than my iPhone for most things. The flaws are there, but are very fixable, and I have faith in HP to fix them soon.
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