Saturday, August 27, 2011

HP TouchPad, Images, Price, Reviews, Features and Specifications.

HP TouchPad, Images, Price, Reviews, Features and Specifications.

HP TouchPad
9.7″ IPS display @ 768×1024 pixels
1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core APQ8060 processor
Qualcomm Adreno 220 core
1GB memory
16GB and 32GB internal storage
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1 w/ EDR
aGPS
1.3MP front-facing camera
SMS and MMS support
Flash support
microUSB
6300mAh battery
HP webOS 3.0

Apps are sparse, just over 6,000 and can run the ones made for the mobile devices (the HP App Catalog lists only 1,587 TouchPad apps as of today). The basic ones are there though, like Facebook, FourSquare and LinkedIn. However, Twitter and DropBox are conspicuously absent.

Web browsing is smooth and pages load pretty fast. The native browser supports Javascript and Flash out of the box (but you can specifically disabled each one from the settings so you have more control on how the browser behaves).

The native email client is interesting since it offers some sort of One Inbox for everything and displays in 3 panels. It can be confusing at first but you’d easily get the hang of it.

Battery life is decent and I get over 7 hours on video playback and longer on web browsing over WiFi.



The HP TouchPad originally sold for $499 for the 16GB model back in July. Then HP dropped the price by $100 early August (this is when we bought this review unit from Amazon for $399).

By August 20, 2011, HP announced it will discontinue production of all webOS devices, including the TouchPad. It then declared a fire sale on all tablets — $99 for the 16GB and $149 for the 32GB. People went crazy and bought all stocks within the day making the HP TouchPad an overnight sensation and the most popular device on Amazon that week.

HP promised they will still support webOS and provide warranty to all webOS devices but will no longer develop the product line. The webOS tablet was short-lived — 49 days in the market to be exact.

HP TouchPad, Images, Price, Reviews, Features and Specifications.

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