An awful product that should simply be avoided. You'll be sorry.
66
A poor product with more faults than redeeming qualities.
66
Below average. May be passable in a pinch, but you should probably stay away.
66
A bit below average, with some serious issues to watch out for.
66
An average product, with issues that keep it from being genuinely exciting.
66
Slightly better than most similar products, but you can likely still do better.
66
Better than average, but some issues still hold it back from being truly excellent.
66
Among the top products in its category, and a solid choice for most people.
66
A category-leading product and an overall pretty safe bet.
66
An industry-leading product, definitely worth owning. An instant classic.
66
Completely flawless. You'd be crazy not to have it.
100
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I purchased the HP Touchpad as soon as it was released. I am very satisfied with the unit. However, it is obvious HP has abandoned a good product and I must move on. Is SURFACE the way to to the future or is Android the path to follow?
Yesterday's news that six senior Enyo engineers had left HP to join Google fell like Rome in the webOS community. Enyo is the open-source application framework that HP's team is building in preparation for the launch of Open webOS later this year. It's clear that the biggest winner in the fall of Palm was Google. Importantly, they snagged the father of webOS, Matias Duarte. Nokia and Microsoft scored some top Palm staffers as well. HP, as we all know, squandered the rest of the company's efforts....
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Earlier this week Apple announced the arrival of their new OSX build called Mountain Lion. One of their heralded new features was the introduction of iMessage to the desktop platform with the idea being simple: 1 conversation continued across any of Apple's hardware be it iPod touch, iPad, or iPhone, with iMessage you will never stop the conversation. I myself downloaded the beta of iMessage and tested this out first hand, I had my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro in front of me as I carried on in...
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If you've received the latest TouchPad update 3.0.5 and you had any patches installed you might have noticed them not working. They are installed, but unless the package has been updated since the system update, it's not actually doing anything. This has happened in previous system updates. This happens because all the Preware feeds change because they have the OS version number on the end, the feeds get updated and until the patch maintainer updates the patch to the new feed, the patch doesn't...
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/19/lightpad-connects-your-smartphone-to-an-11-inch-screen-expands/ LightPad to the rescue! Boom, the versatility of a smartphone, no need to buy a smartphone and tablet to be a "road warrior." This is what I have been looking for in that you don't need a third device, you just have to be able to use your phone in conjunction with a peripheral that allows you to be more productive. This will be demoed at CES and is for sure purely a concept thing, my hope is that big...
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HP finally revealed the fate of webOS last week, announcing plans to open source the orphaned mobile OS rather than sell it to someone else or simply abandon it. As a fan of the open source model I was pleased to hear this -- it would have been a shame to let webOS die -- but I'm also realistic that opening it up isn't going to suddenly resurrect the OS and put it right back into contention alongside iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Here are four reasons why I think it's going to be an uphill...
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Just moments ago at an all-hands meeting, HP CEO Meg Whitman announced that the company will be open-sourcing webOS. Not just the Enyo app development framework — the actual underlying operating system! http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html No hardware partners to announce right now, but this means any interested smartphone or tablet manufacturer can pick up webOS and run with it. I think this is a bold move and a great outcome; it would have been a real shame if they killed...
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Per some news articles from the past few days, the ICS source code has been released and people are now in process of converting for various platforms. CyanogenMod will probably be the first. Hopefully will perform decently. Anyone else looking forward to trying some dual-booting?
HP failed to capitalize on the Apple I when Steve Wozniak worked for them. We know how that turned out. Apple is now the most valuable company in the world. They fail again to realize their assets with WebOS and multi-touch. Multi-touch and WebOS could be the basis of all computers that they build going forward. WebOS has all the patents they need to include this great technology in computers, laptops and tablets without having to pay royalties to Microsoft like other Android product...
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It doesn't seem like the higher-ups at HP are quite sure of what they're doing right now, but it's nice to see that webOS software engineers haven't been sitting around idle. Earlier this month, HP released a completely rebuilt Maps app for webOS phones, which actually held a bigger surprise — it brought support for their fancy Enyo application framework (used on the TouchPad and Pre3) to all of their old devices, even first-gen Pre and Pixi phones running webOS 1.4.5. Today HP released webOS...
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Here we go again! According to VentureBeat, Amazon is currently in negotiations with HP to snap up the former webOS Global Business Unit. http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/29/amazon-buy-palm/ I've always wondered if Amazon would be at all interested in webOS as they continue to ship their own devices — especially with former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein serving on their board. I think Amazon has proven that they're quite capable of producing their own hardware, software, and ecosystem, so I'm not exactly...
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Just got this email from HP: Thank you for your continued interest in webOS and the HP TouchPad. We regret to inform you that we did not receive enough stock to fulfill your order within the communicated estimated ship date. Your order has been placed on the prioritized list for the first shipments of the next stock receipt. You will receive a shipping notification with a tracking number once your order has shipped. We are expecting all orders to ship by the end of October or earlier. We...
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I have been playing around with the developers preview of Windows 8 this week, and am pretty amazed at how Metro is so far behind features that have been in the mobile webOS for years. These differences are especially bad considering that Windows 8 is meant to be put on large screens, and full powered desktop processors. 1. Windows Management Multitasking is something that webOS has long been praised for, and to this day, I think its "card" paradigm is still by far the best multitasking UI of any...
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Has anyone that ordered with HP.ca actually received their TouchPad? Or received notice that it's shipped? I was on 'submitted' for several days, and now 'admin' for a couple weeks. Anyone had their order go through yet?
For those of you who are still following all of the webOS news, I thought I'd share what I know about how things have been going at HP since the announcement, and shed some light on a few projects that never came to be. Some of the information below comes from friends who work in the webOS Global Business Unit, née Palm. I've always been enthused about the potential of webOS, so with HP ditching all of its plans for webOS hardware, I was eager to pry some more details out of these people. Some...
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I was thinking about the many consequences of the HP Touchpad meltdown we all just witnessed, and I am thinking the biggest consequence may be one that doesn't end up affecting HP at all. That consequence is to scare consumers away from taking a chance on any but the two established options for tablets, Apple and Google, and thereby establishing them as an immovable duopoly for the next three to five years. Some may point out that the problem with the TouchPad in the first place was a lack of...
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Just got the email confirmation from HP confirming purchase of the TouchPad I was pretty sure I bought this morning. Looking forward to seeing what the homebrew community does, looks like there'll be a lot bigger userbase now than there was yesterday.
