HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1
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HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1
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#2>>HP also said today that it will be partnering with AT&T to introduce a connected version of HP TouchPad later this summer. No details yet, but stay tuned.
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#3Well 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 decent competitor in the market place) ((and by decent I mean something a casual purchaser will be happy with and not a tablet that is good enough to make someone happy who pointedly doesn't want to buy Apple and will put up with all sorts))
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#4I am a fan of the Android notifications but I have told that the webOS ones are even better! This should be an interesting device all in all.
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#5I am a fan of the Android notifications but I have told that the webOS ones are even better! This should be an interesting device all in all.
WebOS notifications are nice because you can swipe away individual notifications. But they also take up more screen than on Android (which matters because Palm/HP loves tiny phones). I'd say it's a push overall.
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#6They 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...
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#7I like WebOS, so it's too bad that the form factor lags behind a generation. A 1.6 pound device will be palpably less comfortable to use than the new generation of 1.3 pound devices (iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1).
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#8I am a fan of the Android notifications but I have told that the webOS ones are even better! This should be an interesting device all in all.
WebOS notifications are nice because you can swipe away individual notifications. But they also take up more screen than on Android (which matters because Palm/HP loves tiny phones). I'd say it's a push overall.
It would be really nice if they have a notification tray (or rather a summary area). That would make it the best notification system on any current platform. Right now, once you swipe the notifications away, there's no single place to go and view those notifications. I can't recall if it still keeps a small reminder icon on the bottom.
Ideally, swipe left to dismiss, swipe right to dismiss for now (still listed in the notification "tray").
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#9After getting my wife a palm pre..and seeing how slow and frustrating it is (and how much the wife complains); I'd never get anything webOS again.
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#10I still fail to understand on why companies prefer to price their products at the same level as iPad?! Spec for spec, there are not many things that put HP TouchPad to an advantage. No extendable memory, no extra ports, a weak app ecosystem, etc.
Ever since the ASUS Transformer was released at 399$ for a 16GB model, that pretty much became the price to beat for a tablet which wanted to compete with the iPad2