HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer Review
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Looking at the reviews and the advertisements I decided to go for the HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer. 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. All in all, I love my HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer, and see me using it more than my iPhone for most things. The flaws are there, but are very fixable, and I have faith in HP to fix them soon.
The TouchPad is being positioned as a device that knows why it exists: to hook up to every cloud service that you can imagine, whether on the internet or your corporate intranet. And I even discovered why you might want to do true multitasking (two programs actively updating) on a tablet – which the TouchPad very definitely can. That, plus its ability to play Flash video, means that it has two things going for it that the iPad hasn’t. HP OS is probably the highest point in the HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer. Synergy makes the whole multitasking a breeze 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”.
Product highlights of the HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer:
• 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
• Blazing fast Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-CPU APQ8060 1.2GHz processor
• Hard Drive Size: 16 GB, Type: Serial ATA
• Browse the full web with blazing speed, as well as support for the latest web technologies, including Adobe Flash2,4
• Hear music the way the artist intended with Beats Audio™—only from HP
The HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer is FAST. I can breeze right thru any task I need. It really doesn’t matter too much that the apps do lag a bit to start up (only a few couple seconds really) since once I open an app I can just leave it open. I love having everything on and running. I can start a video and minimize the webpage and let it load while I go read an email, then hop back to the video when it has downloaded. Video playback is smooth and consistent, even on youtube. I love the integration of so many mainstream services used today. It’s really clever. On my TouchPad, I setup my Email (yahoo, google, and microsoft exchange), Skype, Dropbox, AIM, LinkedIn Facebook and there were others that I don’t use. The internet, and email apps are great. Full, rich web pages displayed just as they would be on a computer. And the email sorting and blending makes it so easy to see what is going on in all my accounts. Battery life is also excellent and I am constantly using it. At work as my calendar, at home on the couch surfing the web or checking email, or (now) reading a book with the kindle app, I am never disappointed by the battery running low.
As far as the HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer goes, the only complaint I could give is the lack of apps. However, that can be expected right now. Here’s to HP for doing such a great job with their first WebOS pad out of the gate, and looking forward to the apps that will be coming very soon.
Here’s a selection from a review for the HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 16 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer:
Great Device, with option to make it faster! By J. Destacamen “SweatStudio” – “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. After a over a month of vigorously using the device, I feel like I’ve graduated to “Touchpad Power User.” 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.” Check out other user reviews here…
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