HP Touchpad Available Online Still



I got mine from BestBuy.com the other day. I like it, but I don't think I'd pay more than $100 for it. I HATE not having a mouse, keyboard, and windows.

Things like copy and paste are pretty much impossible, and overall it takes like 2 to 3 times longer to do stuff.

I think it is a pretty good tablet, but I think I pretty much hate mobile devices. If I traveled more it would probably be more useful.
 
conv3rsion said:
i'm definitely buying another if i can in the 2nd round. I can't say enough about webOS. It does a lot of stuff right and in a lot of ways its got the best of both the iOS (clean, polished, consistent, not fragmented) and Android (customizable, notifications, flash) worlds and it has the absolute best multitasking, notification system, and native facebook app on any tablet anywhere. Its crazy easy to "root" and also synergy is great. I really think the reason this device wasn't a hit right out of the gate is because nobody knew wtf webOS was AND nobody was spending $500 on a tablet that wasn't an ipad. The ebay market has shown that the pricepoint for this is around $250 and thats with people worried about support ending. $275 would have worked well to gain marketshare and even if it that was ultimately first round break even, there is always app revenue.

Biggest shortcoming is number of apps, but hopefully with hp selling like 1 million of these things devs will keep going. Most of the ones that do exist are pretty good.

Thinking about this more, if amazon builds their tablet (with all of their vertical integration that they have), they really should build it on webos over android and sell it for sub $300. It could be an insanely awesome and profitable (with amazon purchases) device. Amazon is the ONLYcompany that can compete with Apple on vertical integration and ultimately lifetime roi. But they can only do that if they can kill apple on price and if their tablet ends up north of $300, thats not happening.

Also jumptap says that webos advertising is making more money than android advertising on tablets right now. Pretty interesting considering there is exactly one webos tablet and its been out for less than 1 quarter.
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Agreed... webOS is hands down the best mobile OS on the market and it's a shame that HP bought Palm. My problem with the Touchpad is the hardware, it's crap. With the exception of the screen, the thing feels like a cheap toy and out of eight Touchpads I bought, three had defects. I'd kill for a webOS tablet from Amazon, but I seriously don't see that happening.
 
subigo said:
Agreed... webOS is hands down the best mobile OS on the market and it's a shame that HP bought Palm. My problem with the Touchpad is the hardware, it's crap. With the exception of the screen, the thing feels like a cheap toy and out of eight Touchpads I bought, three had defects. I'd kill for a webOS tablet from Amazon, but I seriously don't see that happening.
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Its a little on the cheap side for sure but I think you got really unlucky too. The processor can go up 50% with overclocking and like you said, the screen is solid. The speakers themselves (maybe not the wiring) are really great and there is a preware app to make then much louder. I think the speakers are actually better than the ipad's.

All that said, nobody would pick this over an ipad head to head like how bestbuy had them. HP set this shit up to fail, and it sucks because there is so much "right" about this thing in the first generation.
 
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