When all the attention lavished in relation to potential competitors to Apple iPad tablet, such as the Motorola Xoom ($ 599, 3.5 stars) and the RIM BlackBerry playbook ($ 499, 3 stars), HP webOS touchpad is based largely flown under the radar. This should change fairly quickly, though. HP, which has reportedly been planning since the beginning of the keyboard, for the acquisition of Palm over a year ago, did something unusual: the company was waiting until the product is ready to release. The touchpad is the opposite of scripts or Xoom, which were both originally published in the important features are missing. The trackpad, on the other hand, is a complete, well-designed and well-designed compressed thin operating system, and a unique approach to multitasking, and includes all the features available.
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| HP TouchPad (Wi-Fi) |
There is room for improvement, a broader application of selection and a camera rear-facing would have been nice, but the TouchPad provides a more enjoyable user experience than any of the current wave of Android Honeycomb tablets. This is not an iPad, but it's best non-Apple tablet that we have yet seen.
Price, design
TouchPad currently comes with only Wi-Fi (16 GB, 32 GB or $ 499, $ 599). HP says the tablet is finally available on AT & T, but the connectivity details, price and timing are not yet announced.
Size 7.5 9.5 0.6 inches, the touchpad is almost twice as thick as the iPad 2, but otherwise the same size and the size of the screen. 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 pixel touch screen LCD IPAD is responsible for the size and resolution. And has the same 4:3 aspect ratio, rather than one. The longer and thinner than the number of tablets 16:09, Xoom as Motorola using screen surrounded by a logo-free, black flat frame, which is also a sense of driving a 1.3-megapixel camera lens and the Home button in the low. Glossy black plastic rear panel attracts fingerprints and have a little more than the HP logo, is a rear facing camera. The rounded side panels in the house a couple of controls and compressed connections: power on / wake, volume controls, 3.5mm headphone jack and connector micro-USB synchronization / charge cable. There are also a couple of built-in stereo speakers.
It 'nice that the stereo separation here, but in typical fashion with a tablet of the speakers, not a good sound very good. The typical (and unfortunate) that the touch pad with headphones, but you can not get a cleaning cloth and a USB sync cable that connects with the wall charger.
As for what's under the hood, the touchpad is the first tablet, we tested built around Qualcomm Snapdragon processor dual-core 1.2GHz APQ8060. All Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets have so far used Nvidia dual-core 1 GHz Tegra A second 1.2 GHz, Qualcomm processor is more powerful in theory, but there is no reference applications such as those we use to test tablets Android right now, so there is no way to prove it. In actual use, there was no difference in performance between an ideal processor of the touchpad and tablet Honeycomb. (More on the overall performance in a minute.) TouchPad also integrates 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.
WebOS 3.0
WebOS 3.0 adopts a novel approach for multitasking, and this feature is the core of the user interface TouchPad impressive. All applications, most Perhaps browser windows, videos, photos and minimized in the "short" size, with a shift down or press the Home button. When to see the map mode (which is how the home screen is set up) you can scroll through the thumbnails live each application, a window or file you open. If you want to close an application, just drag the map and it flies off the screen.
Fast NOTE: HP has released an update to use the touchpad webOS 3.0.2, the beginning of August. Updates fixed some minor performance issues, such as a scroll delay and automatic correction. And 'slightly improved, the touchpad HTML5 video playback (more on that below). It does not do much to solve the touchpad to two main areas of performance problems: applications, will take several seconds to load, and a significant delay between the time by turning the device vertically and horizontally. These questions seem to be an experienced software and hardware, and HP software, hopefully correct.
The map display on the main screen / multi-task in itself is a clever way for dealing with simultaneous functions of the tablet, but the stack of the function is one of the most useful webOS towers. If you browse several lines of windows, or can be displayed side by side for easy movement, or be stacked on each other. All this is done with simple smear and it is difficult to stack or unstack accidentally cards. Any card can be stacked with any other card, and stacking of a picture with a note, email and website is very simple. Apple IOS allows applications to group them into folders, but everything you see in these cases is the application icons you put in them. In webOS, you know what the current window. If you have a presentation that is working and you have to do some research online and to organize some pictures of her, all these different windows photos, Word documents, sites, everyone can sit in a cell and tidy.
It is easily the best arrangement multitasking, we have seen in a tablet OS to date. In a tablet Honeycomb, you see (very) small snapshots of your open applications in the bar of multitasking. In webOS, the cards are big enough to see what they contain, there is a map for each file or a window instead of one for each application, and the cards can be arranged so that neither honeycomb IOS or permits.
WebOS is probably the most visually similar to the RIM BlackBerry Tablet OS. Despite the overall evaluation of our publishers, too, soon playbook, the compressed operating system is well designed and easy on the eyes. Apple iPhone OS even more intuitive user interfaces, and the tablet, but it is obvious that Apple will present multiple views in real-time multi-tasking and organizational tools for future versions of IOS. A honeycomb is fairly customizable, but can be confusing at times. WebOS 3.0 is a much cleaner approach. It 's almost ironic, as one of the greatest strengths of Google is rethinking its approach to the way in which users in your organization, such as discussions with Gmail. WebOS HP batteries are very Googlian.
A toolbar site at the bottom of the screen. It comes with a Web browser (browser), E-mail, calendar, messages, photos and videos preinstalled with an arrow that opens the launch window. This is where you find all your applications, downloads, Options menu, and access to HP App Catalog. The bar can be customized to show what applications you want, but it has a maximum of five programs at once.
The notifications are designed to be less invasive than honeycomb TouchPad on the shelves, but the end result is very similar: When you receive an email, a notification appears in the margin of the window, not in the center of the screen where you can block content (which is the middle of the iPhone in the processing of notifications). WebOS groups such as notifications, allowing you to scroll through different subject lines in the area of e-mail notification.
Price, design
TouchPad currently comes with only Wi-Fi (16 GB, 32 GB or $ 499, $ 599). HP says the tablet is finally available on AT & T, but the connectivity details, price and timing are not yet announced.
Size 7.5 9.5 0.6 inches, the touchpad is almost twice as thick as the iPad 2, but otherwise the same size and the size of the screen. 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 pixel touch screen LCD IPAD is responsible for the size and resolution. And has the same 4:3 aspect ratio, rather than one. The longer and thinner than the number of tablets 16:09, Xoom as Motorola using screen surrounded by a logo-free, black flat frame, which is also a sense of driving a 1.3-megapixel camera lens and the Home button in the low. Glossy black plastic rear panel attracts fingerprints and have a little more than the HP logo, is a rear facing camera. The rounded side panels in the house a couple of controls and compressed connections: power on / wake, volume controls, 3.5mm headphone jack and connector micro-USB synchronization / charge cable. There are also a couple of built-in stereo speakers.
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| HP TouchPad (Wi-Fi) |
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| HP TouchPad (Wi-Fi) |
It 'nice that the stereo separation here, but in typical fashion with a tablet of the speakers, not a good sound very good. The typical (and unfortunate) that the touch pad with headphones, but you can not get a cleaning cloth and a USB sync cable that connects with the wall charger.
As for what's under the hood, the touchpad is the first tablet, we tested built around Qualcomm Snapdragon processor dual-core 1.2GHz APQ8060. All Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets have so far used Nvidia dual-core 1 GHz Tegra A second 1.2 GHz, Qualcomm processor is more powerful in theory, but there is no reference applications such as those we use to test tablets Android right now, so there is no way to prove it. In actual use, there was no difference in performance between an ideal processor of the touchpad and tablet Honeycomb. (More on the overall performance in a minute.) TouchPad also integrates 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.
WebOS 3.0
WebOS 3.0 adopts a novel approach for multitasking, and this feature is the core of the user interface TouchPad impressive. All applications, most Perhaps browser windows, videos, photos and minimized in the "short" size, with a shift down or press the Home button. When to see the map mode (which is how the home screen is set up) you can scroll through the thumbnails live each application, a window or file you open. If you want to close an application, just drag the map and it flies off the screen.
Fast NOTE: HP has released an update to use the touchpad webOS 3.0.2, the beginning of August. Updates fixed some minor performance issues, such as a scroll delay and automatic correction. And 'slightly improved, the touchpad HTML5 video playback (more on that below). It does not do much to solve the touchpad to two main areas of performance problems: applications, will take several seconds to load, and a significant delay between the time by turning the device vertically and horizontally. These questions seem to be an experienced software and hardware, and HP software, hopefully correct.
The map display on the main screen / multi-task in itself is a clever way for dealing with simultaneous functions of the tablet, but the stack of the function is one of the most useful webOS towers. If you browse several lines of windows, or can be displayed side by side for easy movement, or be stacked on each other. All this is done with simple smear and it is difficult to stack or unstack accidentally cards. Any card can be stacked with any other card, and stacking of a picture with a note, email and website is very simple. Apple IOS allows applications to group them into folders, but everything you see in these cases is the application icons you put in them. In webOS, you know what the current window. If you have a presentation that is working and you have to do some research online and to organize some pictures of her, all these different windows photos, Word documents, sites, everyone can sit in a cell and tidy.
It is easily the best arrangement multitasking, we have seen in a tablet OS to date. In a tablet Honeycomb, you see (very) small snapshots of your open applications in the bar of multitasking. In webOS, the cards are big enough to see what they contain, there is a map for each file or a window instead of one for each application, and the cards can be arranged so that neither honeycomb IOS or permits.
WebOS is probably the most visually similar to the RIM BlackBerry Tablet OS. Despite the overall evaluation of our publishers, too, soon playbook, the compressed operating system is well designed and easy on the eyes. Apple iPhone OS even more intuitive user interfaces, and the tablet, but it is obvious that Apple will present multiple views in real-time multi-tasking and organizational tools for future versions of IOS. A honeycomb is fairly customizable, but can be confusing at times. WebOS 3.0 is a much cleaner approach. It 's almost ironic, as one of the greatest strengths of Google is rethinking its approach to the way in which users in your organization, such as discussions with Gmail. WebOS HP batteries are very Googlian.
A toolbar site at the bottom of the screen. It comes with a Web browser (browser), E-mail, calendar, messages, photos and videos preinstalled with an arrow that opens the launch window. This is where you find all your applications, downloads, Options menu, and access to HP App Catalog. The bar can be customized to show what applications you want, but it has a maximum of five programs at once.
The notifications are designed to be less invasive than honeycomb TouchPad on the shelves, but the end result is very similar: When you receive an email, a notification appears in the margin of the window, not in the center of the screen where you can block content (which is the middle of the iPhone in the processing of notifications). WebOS groups such as notifications, allowing you to scroll through different subject lines in the area of e-mail notification.
