HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 8:59 PM UTC

cmarshall wrote: post #19

martingordon wrote: post #14

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I was going to post a snarky comment about how the Transformer can't compete with the iPad because its not actually shipping yet, blah blah, but I did a search first and found out that it shipped over a month ago. Which can only mean that ASUS really botched the PR on this one. Neither Engadget nor Gizmodo (arguably the two largest gadget sites) have reviewed it, but the few reviews I did find were generally positive…

Engadget reviewed the UK edition of the Transformer in April and seemed to generally like it. http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/18/asus-eee-pad-transformer-...

Post by megaman821 » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 9:27 PM UTC

Yhippa wrote: post #70

sleight42 wrote: post #54

Just once, I'd like to hear an electronics developer, in HP/Palm's situation, humbly concede, "We realize that we're entering a crowded market. We realize that we're entering late. However, our strategy is simple: ply the development community with incentives which, over time, should help us flesh out our platform into an engaging and useful product." I've read little but boasting from HP about the new round of WebOS…

I could care less about talk in any case. I've been following Windows Phone 7 as of late and it seems that they've made it easy to program for the platform by offering development tools, samples, and instruction. There is scant documentation or examples for Enyo. They changed app dev frameworks on all of their existing developers from Mojo to Enyo. That can't help either. I think they have a near Herculean task in tr…

Post by Apocryphon » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 9:48 PM UTC

sleight42 wrote: post #72

Apocryphon wrote: post #69

If webOS fails, I think its legacy will be being too ahead of its time twice- one for being a neat smartphone OS back in 2009 with several features that both the iPhone and Android lacked (card system for multitasking, development platform based on web programming languages), and second for getting into the multi-device platform game prior to OS X Lion and Windows 8 (the webOS will run on everything from desktops to…

Too ahead of it's time? I'm pretty sure it's just that they were too late to market. (1) they launched on Sprint. Sprint is a distant 3rd now. (2) they didn't reach Verizon in time. They had this lovely window of time before Verizon launched the first Droid phone. Verizon users were hungry for a smartphone. Droid got their first and filled the niche. It's easy to armchair quarterback but, after trying the Pre on Spri…

Post by stcredzero » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 10:15 PM UTC

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #33

desigooner wrote: post #13

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I understand the fact about Apple's buying power. But when someone is trying to compete with an established product, you gotta offer something more at some price less to get people to even look at it! It's going to be interesting to see how the HP Touchpad & Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 do in the next few months. However, the real competition will start when Amazon jumps into the market with their rumored Kal-El tablets l…

The dollars don't matter so much. eBay matters is that you are seen providing better value (which may indue cost). Unfortunately, with the WWDC announcements, it really doesn't look like HP has a better value. They need something more to compete if they don't want it to be a race to the bottom with Chinese, Taiwanese, and South Korean vendors.

Post by 6ren » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 11:23 PM UTC

piranha wrote: post #45

6ren wrote: post #29

It's a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-CPU APQ8060 1.2GHz But they don't mention RAM or cpu. It runs flash, but doesn't mention java (so it probably doesn't).

> But they don't mention RAM or cpu. How's saying that it's 1.2 ghz cpu is not mentioning cpu? As for RAM, Wikipedia page says it'll have 1 gb.