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HP TouchPad Reviews

DigitalTrends

08/2011

7.0/10

HP TouchPad Review

When HP announced the TouchPad this spring, we got pretty excited. We've been fans of webOS since it debuted on the Palm Pre, and when HP acquired Palm in 2010, the operating system seemed like a natural fit for a tablet. The TouchPad is also the only tablet to have the exact same screen size and aspect ratio as Apple's 9.7-inch iPad. Sadly, HP's first attempt at capitalizing on webOS doesn't quite live up to our expectations. The TouchPad's hardware is a mixed bag. The tablet is a bit hefty at 0.54 inches thick, putting it in the realm of the Toshiba Thrive and Acer Iconia Tabs, two of the bigger units on the market. Yet, HP is clearly trying to compete with the iPad 2, which is one of the thinnest and lightest tablets on the market (the Samsung Galaxy Tab actually edges the iPad out on both counts, barely). From the minimalist rounded design to the screen size and single button on the bottom, it's very clear that HP wants this tablet to look good sitting next to Apple's market leader. Unfortunately, this tablet competes better with the original iPad than the thinner iPad 2. The TouchPad has a very responsive 9.7-inch screen with a nice 3-by-4 aspect ratio, which more resembles the shape of printing paper than the envelope-like widescreen Android tablets that crowd the market. It also happens to be the exact same shape as the iPad.

PCMAG

08/2011

8.0/10

HP TouchPad

With all the attention lavished upon would-be tablet competitors to the Apple iPad, like the Motorola Xoom ($599, 3.5 stars) and the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook ($499, 3 stars), HP's webOS-based TouchPad has mostly flown under the radar. That should change rather quickly, though. HP, which has allegedly been designing the TouchPad since day one of its Palm acquisition more than a year ago, did something rare: The company waited until the product was ready to release it. The TouchPad is the antithesis of the PlayBook or the Xoom, which were both initially released with major features missing. The TouchPad, on the other hand, is a fully formed, well-conceived, well-designed tablet with a graceful operating system, and a unique approach to multitasking, and it comes with all of its features activated. There's room for improvement—a wider app selection and a rear-facing camera would've been nice—but the TouchPad offers a more enjoyable user experience than any of the current wave of Android Honeycomb tablets. It's no iPad, but it's the best non-Apple tablet we've seen yet. Pricing, Design Currently, the TouchPad is available with Wi-Fi only (16GB, $499 or 32GB, $599). HP says the tablet will eventually be offered on AT&T, but connectivity details, pricing, and timing have yet to be announced.

TechSpot

07/2011

HP TouchPad Review: webOS on the Tablet

The TouchPad is HP's first tablet effort running the webOS operating system that it acquired when it purchased Palm back in June of 2010. Many users and lovers of webOS's blend of beauty and functionality have been waiting with baited breath to see how it performs on a tablet. While webOS has been praised by almost everyone who has touched it on a phone, it's had trouble grabbing a large chunk of the smartphone market share thanks to lackluster hardware and limited app selection. Has HP managed to take the best of webOS and implement it on the TouchPad while avoiding the pitfalls that have plagued the platform in the past? Is the TouchPad a compelling option compared to market leader Apple's iPad 2 or the less impressive Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablets currently available? Hardware When you first lay eyes upon the HP TouchPad, everything looks very familiar - almost scarily so. When viewed from the front with the screen off, you are almost transported back to January 2010 when the original Apple iPad was revealed. The TouchPad features a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 pixel, IPS display front and center, just like the iPad. The screen itself is just as good as the iPad's, it has good color reproduction and viewing angles.

TabletPCReview

07/2011

8.0/10

HP TouchPad Review

The HP TouchPad is the first tablet computer featuring webOS, in some ways the spiritual successor to the original Palm handheld devices. Like its competitors, the TouchPad offers a multimedia experience with music, photos, apps, and games, as well as email and web browsing. But what sets it apart is HP Synergy, which promises to gather the various components of your online life such as Facebook and Google and organizes it all into a seamless whole. The TouchPad is currently available direct from HP and from a variety of retailers for $499.99 for the 16GB version and $599.99 for the 32GB version. At first glance, the TouchPad looks like any other tablet computer; when I first took it out of the box I was surprised by how much it looks like an iPad, at least from the front. As far as size is concerned, the Touchpad is slightly shorter and wider than my original iPad, and it feels just a bit heavier. When you look at the front of the TouchPad, you may miss the front-facing camera above the screen and the home button below, as they're rather low profile and non-descript. The large touchscreen display dominates the front of the device, which is certainly expected. The back panel is plain black plastic, with an HP logo and a few regulatory/informational icons close to the bottom.

DigitalVersus

07/2011

8.0/10

Touchscreen Tablet Reviews

Since buying Palm, HP has been trying to give some consistency to the webOS system, their main reason for shelling out the $1 billion price tag for the creator of the Pre. With smartphones first of all (Pre Plus, Veer and, very soon, the Pre3), then of course tablets, the market which currently has most potential, HP has now brought us the TouchPad, a 9.7-inch tablet based on the latest version of webOS (3.0). The TouchPad runs on a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon clocked at 1.2 GHz, has 1 GB of RAM, an IPS panel with LED backlighting, a single micro USB connector for charging or the transfer of data from a computer, a 1.3 megapixel webcam at the front and a Beats Audio sound module as found on HP's recent laptops. A range of accessories is included with quite a classy induction charger and a not so sexy Bluetooth keyboard which nevertheless fulfills its purpose though without embellishments. Our test model has 16 GB of storage space for a sale price of £399. The 32 GB version is priced at £479. The TouchPad came on sale at the beginning of July 2011. Did you say iPad? The TouchPad does little more than simply copy the general lines of the original Apple tablet.

3G.co.uk

07/2011

8.0/10

HP TouchPad Review

In the past year or so, the choice of tablets has grown enormously, so you're not limited to the iPad. But for anyone who can't get to grips with Android or is not familiar with BlackBerrys, so feels a PlayBook isn't for them, there hasn't been anything else. Until now. Because HP has brought out the HP TouchPad, which runs on its own operating system, and a jolly good job it does too. The TouchPad manages to appear lightweight and yet still be sturdy enough to feel as though it is a classy piece of kit. Weightwise, it's about on a par with a 3G iPad (although bear in mind this tablet is Wi-Fi only - a 3G version is due to be launched later in the year). Unlike the iPad it has a plastic casing (so we suspect that HP could, if it saw fit, add a SIM card slot at some stage). But where it is the same as the iPad is in the fact that it has a home button at the bottom of the screen - the Centre key. It is oval in shape, and when you have a notification or message, it flashes gently. The TouchPad features a 9.7in display that boasts a 768x1,024 resolution, but it is not quite as slender and light as the iPad. The glossy, plastic chassis means it weighs 130g more and is 2mm thicker - mind you, unless you hold one in each hand, we're not sure you'd really notice the difference.

phoneArena

07/2011

7.0/10

HP TouchPad Review

Feeling the depths of oblivion, it seemed as though all of Palm’s hard work with webOS was going nowhere fast as their mobile platform wasn’t adopted by consumers compared to the competition, but lucky for them, HP swooped down and rescued them from a possible premature death. Reinvigorated and backed by an almost insurmountable amount of cash flow, HP is now calling the shots and taking webOS to new levels that Palm only dreamt about in its sleep. In fact, it was only back in February when the world was first introduced to the next level of webOS devices – with one of them being none other than the HP TouchPad.Nearly five months have passed by, and the world is finally getting its taste of the very first webOS 3.0 tablet in the HP TouchPad – but more importantly, some are curious to know how it stands against some of the titans in the market. Luckily, it flaunts that oh-so lovely price point of $500 for the base 16GB Wi-Fi only model, and knowing that it’s packing equally impressive specs under the hood, it should undoubtedly prove itself as a competitor. However, knowing that the bar has been set in terms of what consumers expect out of tablets, it’s going to need to excel from head to toe in order to have a piece of the pie at dessert.

LaptopMag

06/2011

5.0/10

HP TouchPad Review

There's a lot riding on the HP TouchPad. It's not only HP's answer to the iPad 2; it represents the first of many high-profile devices from HP running webOS, the software the company purchased from Palm to power everything from tablets and PCs to phones and printers. In terms of features, the TouchPad ($499 for 16GB) looks pretty strong, sporting a dual-core processor, Flash support, and an interface that's elegant and easy to use. HP also takes a fresh approach to helping users discover apps. But do the hardware and software work as well together as Apple's tablet, and can the TouchPad compete with the hoard of Android-powered slates out there?With its glossy black plastic chassis and nicely rounded corners, the TouchPad looks fairly attractive from the front, but the back of this tablet smudges up quickly with fingerprints. We'd much prefer a matte or soft-touch surface, as found on the BlackBerry PlayBook and HP's Pre 2 and 3 smartphones. We also noticed some minor creaking on the left side.Weighing 1.6 pounds and measuring 0.54 inches thick, the TouchPad is heavier and thicker than the original iPad (1.5 pounds, 0.5 inches), nevermind the super-slim iPad 2 (1.3 pounds, 0.34 inches) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab (1.25 pounds, 0.34 inches).

PCWorld

06/2011

5.0/10

HP TouchPad

Hewlett-Packard is the latest PC maker to jump into tablets--and in entering the market, it has immediately become the latest tablet maker to land under Apple's shadow. The HP TouchPad is the first tablet based on the WebOS mobile operating system, which HP acquired when it purchased Palm a year ago. But although WebOS shows some flashes of finger-friendly brilliance (it seems far better suited for a tablet than for the small screen of a phone), the TouchPad suffers from cumbersome design, performance lags, and a poor app selection. The Wi-Fi TouchPad comes in two versions at launch, with a 16GB model costing $499 and a 32GB model costing $599 (both as of June 29, 2011), price tags that put it on a par with the iPad 2. A version with AT&T mobile broadband will ship later this summer. Had the TouchPad shipped a year ago, soon after the first-generation Apple iPad, it might not have felt so behind the curve. But at this point it seems to be playing catch-up, despite the fact that it has several distinguishing features. Chief among them are the immersive meshing of contacts from multiple Web services and sources, the ability to print, Touchstone inductive charging, and touch-to-share (a Web, phone, and messaging transfer capability that will eventually work with the HP Veer and the upcoming HP Palm Pre smartphones).

SlashGear

06/2011

HP TouchPad Review

We've been demanding a tablet running webOS for years now, and it's taken HP's new stewardship of the software to guide just that onto store shelves. Palm's mobile platform always seemed to good to be left solely to smartphones, and the HP TouchPad is the inevitable result. Problem is, the iPad has already made its presence well and truly known, dominating the consumer tablet market, and Android's Honeycomb drive gains OEM support by the week. Can the multitasking charms of webOS 3.0 promise the TouchPad a bright future, or is it simply a case of too late to the party? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut. Anyone who has played with a Palm Pre will recognize the HP TouchPad, a square of glossy black plastic with rounded-off corners. It's a fingerprint-magnet front and back: within seconds of getting it out of the box it was already smudged and smeared with finger grease. We quickly swaddled it in a Fusion of Ideas Stealth Armor adhesive case, since the plastic picks up tiny scratches with reasonable ease, though build quality generally was creak-free. The TouchPad measures 9.45 x 7.48 x 0.45 inches and weighs 1.6lbs, making it slightly shorter and slightly wider than the iPad 2, as well as being noticeably thicker and heavier.

TechRadar

06/2011

6.0/10

HP TouchPad review

When HP bought Palm, it was widely considered to have been mostly fuelled by the desire to acquire the webOS operating system.The Pre and Pixi and phones all ran the software, but after the iPad was introduced, many people had hopes that it would soon make its way to tablets.In particular, the powerful and flexible multitasking that the Pre and Pixi were capable of was what got everyone so excited. We'll go into more detail later, but where multitasking has been something of an add-on to the iOS operating system used in the iPhone and iPad, it's always been at the core of webOS.Well, the wishes have finally been realised in the HP TouchPad, a 9.7-inch tablet running webOS 3.0. It's powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, with 16GB or 32GB of storage. It comes in at £399 for the 16GB version and £479 for the 32GB model – a pound-for-pound match with the equivalent iPad models.However, the TouchPad has a few tricks up its sleeve that separate it from the iPad. It's got support for Adobe Flash built in, a standard USB connector for charging or connecting to your computer, Beats Audio-powered stereo speakers and wireless charging using HP's Touchstone technology.

CNet UK

06/2011

5.0/10

HP TouchPad review

Do you hate fitting in? Would you gladly jump off the bandwagon even if it meant landing in a ditch? Do you revel in neighbourhood children's cries of 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary' when you stroll the local lanes? Then take a gander at the HP TouchPad, the other, other tablet. It's not an iPad, and it doesn't run Google's Android Honeycomb software, like most other tablets. Instead, it offers a smooth webOS user interface, a great Internet browser and some booming Beats speakers. Unfortunately, it also suffers from comparatively terrible battery life, a chubby case and a severe lack of apps. The TouchPad is available for pre-order at £400 for the 16GB version and £480 for the 32GB version. Neither have 3G connectivity -- just Wi-Fi. Those prices are almost identical to what you'd pay for the equivalent iPad 2. The TouchPad will be released on 1 July. The TouchPad is a tablet outsider. The UK never warmed up to its little brother, the Palm Pre (HP now owns Palm), and few are holding their breath for a giant Pre now. Nevertheless, HP has decided to stick with the Pre look for the TouchPad. That means it has a rounded, shiny plastic body. We like this approach on HP's phones, because it makes them fit in the hand like a smooth pebble.

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HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer	$269.98	See it
Hp Touchpad 16gb, Wi-fi, 9.7in - Glossy Black - Fb355uaaba	$269.99	See it
Mint - Hp Touchpad Fb356ut 32gb Wi-fi 9.7in - Black + Leather Case, Screen Prote	$284.99	See it
HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer	$293.49	See it
Hp Touchpad 32gb, Wi-fi, 9.7in - Glossy Black	$299.5	See it
Hp 32gb Touchpad Wi-fi 9.7in Tablet Black	$307	See it
HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer	$315	See it
Hp Touchpad Wi-fi 16 Gb 9.7" Pc Tablet	$370.49	See it
Hp Touchpad Fb356ut 32gb Tablet & Hp Touchstone ,keyboard, Case Bundle	$375	See it
Hp 32gb Touchpad Tablet Warranty Receipt Keyboard Touchstone Case Bundle	$389.99	See it