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HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

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Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

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Post by Killah911 »

"Touch to Share capability for sharing web addresses between HP TouchPad and compatible webOS phones"

I'm sure all 5 people who still have the palm pre can barely contain their excitement...

Seriously, what's HP thinking? I think the Palm Pre came out with more fanfare, and that didn't turn out that great. If all that really differrentiates HP's tablet from the iPad is the OS, well, quite frankly, it's been done before with the Palm Pre vs. iPhone, with less than flattering results for Palm.

I just don't see the sensible part yet... if someone else does, please point it out to me...

Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

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Post by cmarshall »

junklight wrote: post #3

Well it looks like they have already done something better than all their non-Apple competitors - instead of rushing it out half finished they seem to have waited until it's done. Given the biggest complaint about webos on the phone was the power of the processor this stands a good chance of being a nice product. fingers crossed for them (I'm unlikely to give up my iPad given iCloud now but there really should be a d…

The 500MHz processor in the original Pre really does hold back WebOS. Running an overclocked custom kernel, I have mine set at 1GHz, makes a huge difference to the usability and surprisingly doesn't reduce battery life by much (which is partly due to the custom kernels clocking the CPU back to 500MHz when the screen is off).

It looks like HP/Palm have learned from this and aren't going to make the same mistake twice, the more recent videos of the Touchpad show how much they've optimised the UI to remove the lag: http://www.precentral.net/webos-3-0-optimizations-make-smoot...

Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

#23

Post by d3fun »

modernerd wrote: post #20
smackfu wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Step 1 to get your free TouchPad: get to Paris or Berlin.

You don't have to get to Paris or Berlin. You can email them (that's what I did).

2. Must be registered for and present at the event to be eligible. 4. Must be able to show your app in progress to a designated HP webOS representative, in the form of an .ipk file we can load onto and test with an HP TouchPad.

Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

#24

Post by snippyhollow »

smackfu wrote: post #11
modernerd wrote: post #6

They are also offering free TouchPads to webOS developers who can demonstrate a working TouchPad app that they intend to submit to the App Catalog. Details on their blog: http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/05/show-us-your-app-at-w...

Step 1 to get your free TouchPad: get to Paris or Berlin.

Step 2, build a time travel device to go back to 25-27th of May.

Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

#25

Post by glhaynes »

Killah911 wrote: post #21

"Touch to Share capability for sharing web addresses between HP TouchPad and compatible webOS phones" I'm sure all 5 people who still have the palm pre can barely contain their excitement... Seriously, what's HP thinking? I think the Palm Pre came out with more fanfare, and that didn't turn out that great. If all that really differrentiates HP's tablet from the iPad is the OS, well, quite frankly, it's been done befo…

Yeah... I want to see webOS do well, but making one of your main differentiators be tight integration with a product that essentially nobody owns isn't normally the route to success.

Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

#26

Post by modernerd »

d3fun wrote: post #23
modernerd wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to get to Paris or Berlin. You can email them (that's what I did).

2. Must be registered for and present at the event to be eligible. 4. Must be able to show your app in progress to a designated HP webOS representative, in the form of an .ipk file we can load onto and test with an HP TouchPad.

"You can also email us at TouchPadSDK [att] palm [dott] com and one of our app specialists will work with you to see how you can qualify for this program."

Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

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Post by [deleted] »

Killah911 wrote: post #21

"Touch to Share capability for sharing web addresses between HP TouchPad and compatible webOS phones" I'm sure all 5 people who still have the palm pre can barely contain their excitement... Seriously, what's HP thinking? I think the Palm Pre came out with more fanfare, and that didn't turn out that great. If all that really differrentiates HP's tablet from the iPad is the OS, well, quite frankly, it's been done befo…

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Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

#28

Post by hornokplease »

d3fun wrote: post #23
modernerd wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to get to Paris or Berlin. You can email them (that's what I did).

2. Must be registered for and present at the event to be eligible. 4. Must be able to show your app in progress to a designated HP webOS representative, in the form of an .ipk file we can load onto and test with an HP TouchPad.

There are also events at the Palm campus in Sunnyvale today (June 9) and next week (June 16)

http://developer.palm.com/content/community/events/webos_wor...

Re: HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

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Post by [deleted] »

ansy wrote: post #15
smackfu wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Step 1 to get your free TouchPad: get to Paris or Berlin.

A company the size of HP can afford to give away piles of TouchPads and Pres to developers that might be mildly interested. HP should have somebody hunting down the twitter accounts of prolific app developers and mailing out starter packs of hardware. Google has been handing out hardware left and right and doesn't seem to be slowing down one bit.

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