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   wilsoncraft August 8, 2011 10:09 pm

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   YOU MUST CHECK OUT THE HP TOUCHPAD FOR YOURSELF!!!, July 4, 2011

   By wilsoncraft –

   This review is from: HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer (Personal Computers)

   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. ————————– WIRELESS PRINTING UPDATE ————————– 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…

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