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| |  | Digital Photography | Home » » HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer | | | | | | | Description: | | Store more files on the go and get more done with the HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32GB, a tablet designed to work like you do. Connect, play, surf and share more easily. Organize your related activities into card stacks on the brilliant 9.7-inch diagonal LED backlit multitouch display. Enjoy websites with Adobe Flash content and hear music the way the artists intended it to be heard with Beats Audio. You can also use the front-facing camera and microphone for live video calling. HP webOS helps you multitask seamlessly. Sign in to your online accounts and this HP tablet pulls information together automatically. See your Face book friends birthdays in your contacts, compare work and personal calendars side by side, and view your work and personal e-mails together or separately. Just Type lets you create messages, search the web and more without launching an app first. Receive notifications of new messages, e-mails and events without interrupting what's on your screen. Plus, charge this HP tablet wirelessly using the optional HP Touchstone Charging Dock. The HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32GB also works better together with other HP webOS devices: Touch to share websites with your HP Pre3 or Veer Smartphone. | | | Features: | |
• Brilliant 9.7-inch diagonal LED backlit multitouch display
• Seamless multitasking with HP webOS 3.0 and essential productivity apps
• Exclusive Beats Audio for studio-quality sound
• 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core APQ8060 processor
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| 0.54 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.48 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.45 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 12.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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698 of 723 found the following review helpful:
 Great Device, with option to make it faster! (see video)Aug 11, 2011
By J. Destacamen
"SweatStudio"
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1H685HI33HHIM HP DISCOUNTINUED THE HP TOUCHPAD 8-18-11. LATEST NEWS 12-09: HP HAS RELEASED WEBOS TO OPEN SOURCE SO IT'S EXPECTED TO SEE MANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS FROM 3RD PARTIES ALONG WITH SUPPORT. HP PLANS TO CONTINUE TO INVEST INTO WEBOS AND PLANS ANOTHER WEBOS TABLET TO BE RELEASED IN 2013.
MY VIDEO ATTACHED. (Overclocked at 1.5Ghz)
First of all, whether you are a geek or not,the Touchpad along with the webOS Homebrew community touts big advantages over it's competitors and this has been often overlooked by reviewers. I've attached my video that shows the performance of an enhanced Touchpad running at 1.5Ghz. However don't be mistaken, the HP Touchpad still performs fast with the original speed of 1.2Ghz. I'm just a very busy person and a little obsessed with technology plus I wanted to express what the Touchpad can become (within an hour of your time) if you really wanted to spice things up.
I WAS AN IPAD2 USER.
I've had my Touchpad since launch day July 1st and even before the upgrade I have seen significant improvements in my work productivity overall. Previously, I was an iPad2 user and now that I have the Touchpad, I believe there is absolutely NO WAY I would go back to the iPad2. The Touchpad really outshines the iPad2 when you want to be productive. It's more than just a good business asset, I find it really enjoyable for entertainment purposes; great sound, watch movies, 3D gaming and YouTube videos directly from YouTube itself.
MY NEW SKILL.
After a over a month of vigorously using the device, I feel like I've graduated to "Touchpad Power User." However, I'm still discovering new good things to improve my daily use. One example is to stack 5 applications together and bounce from one another with two button presses. As a personal trainer that is always on the workout floor, this is a handy skill. I often stack the Calendar, Email, Tracking App, Stop watch, and Notepad all together and it gives me the ability to monster-task during a client's session.
TIPS FOR THE NEW BUYER
1. During set up be patient. The device is always gathering information in the background and you may think that it's completed. You may need to create a webOS account, but it's fairly easy.
2. System Restart: Do it properly by going to Settings/Device Info/Reset Options/Restart Don't just hold the power button.
3. Update! Go to Settings/System Updates. Prompt to reboot.
4. Apps open up faster the second time and third time around, you will see a significant speed improvement. Sometimes blazing fast.
5. Get the case. No more complaining on finger prints.
6. If you still want your Touchpad to perform even faster, consider installing Homebrew applications. This is a strong community. I've attached a video with this review so you can see what an overclocked 1.5GHz Touchpad can do. But with Homebrew and open source there's more you can do than just this upgrade.
THICKNESS, APPS AND REAR CAMERA?
I thought I'd miss the rear camera of not having the iPad2 anymore, but after some thought I realized that my cell phone camera takes better pictures and video anyway! Apps? I currently have 33 apps installed on my Touchpad and excited with the catalog growth so far. Thickness? With the thin Touchpad case there's not much significance compared to an iPad2 installed in a thick case (mine was plastic.) So the iPad2's thin factor is not much of a difference.
NEGATIVE THINGS?
Skype and messaging seems to be under polished. Can't figure out if I'm signed in to Skype and my old Pre will not work in SMS. Perhaps later on? ONE MORE THING! The Touchpad is very addictive. You want to do more because you can, but you drain the battery as well!
898 of 935 found the following review helpful:
 A good Option for TabletsAug 01, 2011
By Jonathan Pozo
"Jonny P"
Bought this from Amazon, as always got it quick. My back ground is I've owned an IPAD and asus windows tablet. After trying them out I was still unsatisfied with the products. It wasn't providing me what I was looking for. I wanted a tablet with good battery life, good aps, experience the 'real' web, do some entertainment (videos, games, music), keep myself connected with social media, and finally do some note taking for work/ everyday things. Looking at the reviews and the advertisements I gave the HP Touchpad a go.
The Breakdown based on a few days exp:
OS: A +
HP OS is probably the highest point in this tablet.
Synergy makes the whole multitasking a breezy and keeps everything in synch. The whole process to get connected with your email, facebook, and calendar is simple.
You can just do lots of things out of the box, no need to go hunting for apps.
No Icons Everywhere in the home screen.
You can browse the WHOLE internet without having black screens because of "missing a plugin".
APPs: B-
HP App market is lacking. You could take in to account that it just launched and will have more coming. If you patient you'll start seeing new ones every week. From whats available NOW you can manage. There are games and several productivity apps worth checking out.
Hardware: B-
This is the weakest thing for me for the Hp Touchpad. Every Tablet in the market right now has : front /back camera, expandable memory slot, hdmi output, and Real USB connections.
HP TP has front camera, max 32 gb memory, and one micro usb connection. WTF... Lacking big time.
If your like me that likes options for inputs/outputs this is a low blow.
Screen for HP TP is great, all the pictures and videos look nice and I think the resolution is fine. The touch response is good too.
Battery is good too. 5-6 hours . If you leave it on all night it will get low on battery. Not much standby power.
Price: B-
The majority of tablets are 300-499 range. The 32 gb TP is ~560 bucks in amazon. Hardware wise its not worth that. A little too steep for the competition.
Conclusion: HP Touch's operating system could just be the seller here for people that are in search for something friendly and do real multitasking. Or people that didn't like android or iOS.
Price and Hardware are big negatives. Probably the best thing is get this when the price drops under 450 or wait for second Generation.
You just got to see what is important to you and what specifically you "need" in a your tablet.
For me I might keep this :)
update 9-9-11
after the prices tanked cause of the announcement of HP not supporting it anymore. I returned mine (full refund from amazon) and actually bought another for 135 from hp.com :-)
why did I buy another ?
Because it is just a easy and brilliant product.
HP did announce continued support for the apps and updates .
which is true they have done a recent update and just came out with a new edition of the HP magazine for the touchpad which is a neat ideA to discover new apps.
here are some positives:
+HP gave a 50 buck credit for apps
+free box.net 50 gb of space online
+ found preware homebrew community that releases apps and anything you can think of to add a whole different experience . They have a app to overclock the CPU :-)
+new apps added weekly
+noticed faster internet and processing with updates
with the touchpad being cheaper. Give this a try. Support will be there for a while because over 250k of units are out there and HP is making more. Developers love the touchpad.
update 12/15/11
+ I keep using my TP. The apps are still flowing and the web is just easy to use on this.
+HP fired their previous CEO and the new one announced that palm os will be open source. Open source is like the android. Which is a positive thing because it guarantees is way or form updates and new apps from developers.
866 of 926 found the following review helpful:
From a dedicated apple fan... This IS a good deviceJul 02, 2011
By D. Higgins
"Code Farmer"
I'm an admitted mac guy, I have the iPhone 4, iPad, Macbook Pro, etc...
I have to share my support now with the HP TouchPad. The webOS 3.0 is really pretty amazing. I didn't think it would make much of a difference in the use of a tablet, but it's outstanding, and here's why:
1) The integration of so many mainstream services used today. (they probably have some fancy term for this concept)
2) Flash plays well
3) Services missing on the iPad like Grooveshark and Amazon's cloud music all work.
First, the services:
On my TouchPad, I setup my
Email (yahoo, google, and microsoft exchange)
Skype
Dropbox
AIM
LinkedIn
Facebook
(there were others, but I don't use snapfish, and photobucket, etc... even a "find others")
I love this integration of all these mainstream services! It's really clever.
While my iPad seems very app-centric, webOS 3.0 feels more like "the matrix has you". It takes your online world and puts it into the tablet. I love that. All of those websites I often interact with get glued together seamlessly so I feel like I'm "jacked in".
A major strength of the TouchPad is the web functionality that won't work on the iPad. For example, I ran Amazon's cloud music player and Grooveshark just fine (awesome!).
On the down side, the apps are slim, but trust me, they will be coming fast and furious over the next year, like a modern-age gold rush. As someone who has ported over my C++ game engine and product ( atPeace ) to TouchPad from IOS, I can tell you that it was pretty easy, and others will certainly follow. This version 1 of the product is the closest any tablet is to competing with Apple, developers will soon be pouring over.
My only real gripe is not having NetFlix working with it yet. That's coming I'm sure, but something I use on my iPad a lot, and I miss. :(
All in all, I'd say if you want something for business, or to have a tablet built around your online presence, or just a good tablet which can run flash, this might be for you. I still love my iPad, don't get me wrong, but for a long time I didn't see why anyone was realistically imagining they could compete with the iPad. I mean, Apple does it sooooo well. Well, now I understand why. WebOS 3.0.
Don't discount this device, it's got great potential. We finally a good competitor for Apple in the tablet world, which should make both products improve.
105 of 112 found the following review helpful:
Touchpad vs the other tabletsSep 11, 2011
By P. knight
"Speed expert"
The HP Touchpad's WebOS is vastly superior to Android and iOS.
These would be but words, if there was no evidence to back it up, so here it is.
The constant cons/complaints from alleged professional reviewers go as follows.
It is thicker and heavier than an iPad. Although that is true, it is not so heavy or thicker as to be an inconvenience and more importantly, part of the reason it is bigger is because of the superior hardware inside, bigger processor, more ran and the audio system/speakers.
The Touchpad needs the more powerful CPU and greater amount of ram than an iPad for example, as it muititasks many apps at the same time, as opposed to a machine than can only do one, or sometimes two if one considers multitasking to be the ability to play music while surfing a single internet page.
When a video stream is coming in too slow, I minimize the page and do something else whilst it loads the stream.
Try that on an iPad.
The stereo sound from a Touchpad is of greater quality than the single speaker in an iPad, not to mention the added ambiance by having stereo over mono.
Good hifi speakers are bigger and heavier than cheap tin can models, so if you want better sound like the Touchpad has, then the size will not matter to you one bit.
Next complaint from the "pros" is that WebOS does not have as many apps as Apple. Again that is true but is it truly a problem? No, it is not. There are ample already available, and now with the news of more to come, there are and will be more than any one person might ever want to use. It is a non issue.
Lastly comes the big one. The "pros" said it was slow, that it might jam up, that it could take too long to switch from horizontal to portrait mode. Those comments are only a semi truth. The fact is that if you operate it one app at a time like an iPad, then it not only isn't slow, it is faster than an iPad, specially after you have applied all the tweaks that are freely available on the internet. As an iPad is incapable of multitasking, there are no slowdowns in general, as the internal hardware is more than capable of handling any one single task at a time, whereas the Touchpad is a completely different type of device that multitasks, and just like a home computer, will eventually slow down if there are too many apps open at the same time. The "pros" reviews about slowing down are so unfair when they compare it to an iPad that the question becomes, were they paid by Apple to say that or are they all that ignorant. Even a child knows that too many applications open at the same time, spells slowdowns and maybe even a crash. To spell it out by citing an example, it would be like saying that Joe Blow never has problems eating one hotdog at a time, but he slows down when he eats 8 at a time. The scenario is ridiculous and the comparison is unjust.
If it is justifiable to bad mouth a computer type product that slows down from too many open windows, then it would apply to every single computer in the world, except an iPad, that can't do more than one thing at a time. Now that the three main complaints have been addressed and proven to be non-issues, it is time to talk about why a Touchpad is such a superior machine. Any knowledgeable techie knows that the WebOS interface is the best of the group of multitasking tablet operating systems. iOS has a very nice interface too and some might argue that it is as good as that of the Touchpad, but it is not included in these comparisons, as it is not a multitasking computer system, therefore doesn't have to deal with many open apps at the same time. How could anyone discuss the various ways that Android and WebOS deal with multiple apps being open and include the iPad in that conversation, when the iPad can't even have multiple apps open?
I fully recognize the value of an iPad and I perceive it as it is, a wonderful machine, well built, with an ultra simple interface that can be easily operated by young children and even IQ challenged individuals.
The more sophisticated tablets that operate like computers, have common advantages and even common problems, that simply don't apply to a machine that does only one thing at a time.
In short, the iPad is a type of toy that is also capable of surfing the internet, although not completely like the Touchpad, and it can use chat services like MSN Messenger and Skype, although it does not fully integrate Skype like the Touchpad does.
Apple products have become a status symbol to own and they are generally high quality products, and the iPad fits perfectly into that category. Where it does not belong is in comparisons to computer like tablets, as the iPad is a type of toy and not a utilitarian device like the Touchpad.
I own both an iPad and a Touchpad and can tell you that my Touchpad is a bit faster than my iPad, and 10 times more useful.
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Added observations, Sept. 20, 2011.
As per the review above, it isn't hard to guess that my Touchpad is much preferred over my iPad. (that my girlfriend has now appropriated and wouldn't let go of without a fight to the death.)
Inspired by some long waits to open webpages (on the Touchpad), I thought it was time to do an internet browsing speed comparison between it and the iPad.
We have Caribbean internet speed that is somewhat lacking when compared to even the slowest US plan, and a fast browser is critical for us, so as to not spend our lives waiting on webpages.
To cut to the chase, this is what I discovered.
When trying to compare the two, I was stunned to discover that the two units rarely landed on identical pages.
The iPad would have a modified www address that might include the word "ipad" or "tablet" and it presented pages that have clearly been "tuned" for 25 million iPad users.
If I went to Yahoo news, for instance, the iPad would give me different headlines than the Touchpad or a Windows PC.
It's not as if I didn't already know that an Ipad couldn't open many webpages or youtube videos and that it simply won't let the user go to those pages that it can't deal with, but I never thought/knew that Apple was also controlling some of the www content.
My initial reaction was to feel like I was in China, cut off from the rest of the world wide web.
On the other hand, everyone is trying to control the internet, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc, so why shouldn't Apple be allowed to play in the same sandbox.....
So......
You would like the results of the test, as would I.
I simply could not make any true clinical observations, when the two machines rarely even opened identical pages.
My non clinical observation was that they are similar in speed and neither could be declared the victor, except in terms of the Touchpad being able to connect with the normal web as we know it, as opposed to Apple's modified version.
So instead of coming out of this with a webpage speed comparison between the two units, all it showed was what I already knew, that an iPad is a toy that has a lot of internet connectivity and many good computer uses, whereas the Touchpad is a computer that has some toyishness about it.
It can play games like the iPad but has a seriously limited library when compared to the iPad's.
On the other hand, it functions much more like a real computer as we know it, with it's capacity to have several functions/processes running at the same time.
When someone sends me a video link, it usually refuses to stream all the way through, because of our slow bandwidth, so it's normal for me to pause and minimize the page and do something else, whilst the video clip downloads.
That's impossible to do on the iPad.
You can pause it and let it download, but you CANNOT do something else in the meantime, other than twiddle your thumbs and wait.
If you want to buy a fantastic gift for the kids, it would be hard to beat an iPad.
If you would like a touch tablet to do the same things you normally do on a computer, then the Touchpad is the machine for you.
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HP webOS makes using this tablet a great experience!Jul 01, 2011
By H. Jimenez
I travel regularly for work and as such have a lot of down time in places where a full laptop is not convenient to use but a tablet works out well. Examples of this would be: time riding in rental cars, taxis, and public transport traveling to and from my home, airports, and client locations, time spent waiting for flights in airports (even nicer during delays!), the flights themselves (in-flight internet makes this really nice!), and the time I spend relaxing in my hotel room and don't really want to spend in front of the laptop I have been working on all day.
As I work in a technical field with specialized software requirements I must have a laptop with me no matter what tablet I choose so my tablet choice does not have to do everything my laptop does, it just needs to keep me entertained and informed. Email, web browsing (full desktop pages with Flash!), Facebook, Twiiter, kindle reading, games, videos, and music are what I need, the Touchpad can handle all that and webOS does it so much nicer than any other tablet out there, I should know as I also own an iPad and an Android tablet.
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