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For starters, no this is not an iPad. I am so over Apple products so it does not matter to me. This is a good reliable tablet PC for the money. With QuickOffice, I can create and edit Word documents and take notes at school, surf the web over Wi-Fi, set up reminders on the handy factory-installed calendar, and read my books with the Kindle App. These things are the reason I bought the Touchpad and it has served me well thus far. The battery life beats the hell out of a laptop. I get 9-10 hrs. per charge, and that is with average wi-fi and document creation use. Overall, it is a good product for the money, and I wish HP would take WebOS back to the drawing board and bring us more quality gadgets such as the Touchpad.
Hp is no longer selling these tablets. However they do still support the unit. They work fairly well for the most part. With the latest update installed you get camera software. The wireless works flawlessly. Browser could use some work(it seems to have a problem with Hotmail). Not nearly as many apps for WebOs as there is for Android. But WebOs does have nice features. No way to expand the onboard Memory above 16gigs as there's no SD or micro sd slot. Does have mini usb for charging/docking. The onboard camera does take fairly clear pics, but don't mistake it for a good digital camera. All in all it's a good unit. Easy to take along. Surfing the net reading a book, or just showing off the latest pictures of your kids. It's a capable unit.
I've had the iPad and still own a Galaxy Tablet, but for the price I figured I couldn't lose with the Touchpad. Of course there's nowhere near the apps available for Web Os as there are for the iPad and Droid devices, but this thing is great. I use it more for email, social networking and reading books. So this is a steal of a deal. I've increased the speed and responsiveness and am finding that there are a lot of benefits to owning this device and many other things you can do with it. Also the HP folks are working on creating more apps because they still have Web Os cell phones being produced. I have a cell phone with hotspot capabilities, so I can use my Touchpad anywhere I can get WiFi or get a signal with my phone. My only complaints are, its a bit heavy, and they're not many accessories available, and some of the accessories that are available ie., Bluetooth keyboard, are too expensive for a device that's not made anymore, ($129.00 for the keyboard docking package), the Touchpads were selling for $99 bucks! If you can find one, get one, Touchpad that is. Great deal for the money.Read full review
The Touchpad is now a great bargain tablet. The new price makes up for the fact that this tablet will likely receive little to no support in the future. Apps are scarce but there seems to be a nice little homebrew community growing. If you only care about browsing the web, email, social networking, etc. This tablet is more than enough. I will recommend you install Preware. All it takes is 5 minutes in google to learn how to do it. I'll smooth out a few of the rough edges you'll find with the stock OS. I own an iPad and an Android tablet running Honeycomb as well. WebOS is far better thought out and constructed than Android. It's right on par with iOS. In fact, if it had the selection of apps that iOS has, I would prefer using this exclusively. I haven't used the android tablet once since I got this. Kind of makes me wonder why people are wasting their time trying to port android over to it. They should concentrate on making apps for this.Read full review
well, I would start by saying, it is not an iPad. I don't mean that in a bad way or good way....it just isn't. Right now, the app selection is minimal, speed and functionality is good, comparable to an iPad, and the look and feel is very comparable. My wife has an iPad, and she can do way more things with her iPad. However, I only needed a tablet to access email, the web and documents/presentations. I can do all of this, including access docs. The bonus with the Touchpad is that it can be plugged into my PC and used as a flash drive. all in all, it does everything that I need. I presume that the app selection will improve, so that will be a plus.
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