I guess it's better to be late than never knock on the door. HP announced Thursday that it will be coming out with its own TouchPad tablet July 1, just in time for fireworks.
We knew a tablet was in the works from the world's largest computer maker best known for its printers and computers.
Cellular South, however, is ready to go with its first Windows Phone 7. The HTC 7 Pro, decked out in dark gray, silver and black, arrives Monday.
The HP TouchPad, with its unique webOS operating system, is all about synergy, as it can gather information from several sites and put in it one place. / Special to The Clarion-Ledger
It is joining a batch of other tablets, including the iPad2, Motorola Xoom, more Galaxy Tabs and the BlackBerry Playbook.
Since there's still a few days before HP will be taking orders, let's take a look under the hood.
Since there's still a few days before HP will be taking orders, let's take a look under the hood.
Platform
HP started dabbling in smartphones with the IPAQ Voice Messenger in 2007 before getting serious and buying Palm in 2010. Palm had built a following around the early Palm Pilot organizer and the Treo line of smartphones.
This deal gave HP control of Palm's slick operating system known as webOS, which was being used on the Palm Pre smartphones.
The webOS platform is completely different from Android and the iOS devices.
If you ask any Palm Pre fans, they would say it's all about synergy, as the webOS goes about gathering all your information, such as contacts, calendar items and social networks, and putting it in one place.
Armed with Palm's technology, I knew it would just be a matter of time before an HP tablet was born and shazam!, we now have the TouchPad.
HP simply says "there is nothing like it" when touting the webOS platform, adding that it'll take multitasking to another level.
If the TouchPad can put all my calendars in one place, like HP claims, that could be a winner, as I have calendars scattered all the over the Web in Google, Yahoo!, Apple's MobileMe and of course, Microsoft Exchange. That's just too many, but I don't know what to do about it.
According to HP, you can expect a lot of synergy between the TouchPad and two HP smartphones - the Veer and the Pre 3 - for sharing Web addresses with the TouchPad.
The TouchPad will have the same 9.7-inch display size as the iPad but will weigh just a tad more at 1.6 pounds.
This deal gave HP control of Palm's slick operating system known as webOS, which was being used on the Palm Pre smartphones.
The webOS platform is completely different from Android and the iOS devices.
If you ask any Palm Pre fans, they would say it's all about synergy, as the webOS goes about gathering all your information, such as contacts, calendar items and social networks, and putting it in one place.
Armed with Palm's technology, I knew it would just be a matter of time before an HP tablet was born and shazam!, we now have the TouchPad.
HP simply says "there is nothing like it" when touting the webOS platform, adding that it'll take multitasking to another level.
If the TouchPad can put all my calendars in one place, like HP claims, that could be a winner, as I have calendars scattered all the over the Web in Google, Yahoo!, Apple's MobileMe and of course, Microsoft Exchange. That's just too many, but I don't know what to do about it.
According to HP, you can expect a lot of synergy between the TouchPad and two HP smartphones - the Veer and the Pre 3 - for sharing Web addresses with the TouchPad.
The TouchPad will have the same 9.7-inch display size as the iPad but will weigh just a tad more at 1.6 pounds.
It'll have a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, which falls short of the Xoom's and Galaxy Tab's 2 MP cameras and way short of the PlayBook's 3 MP camera.
As for competing in the price arena, the TouchPad comes in at around $500 for the 16 gigabyte model and around $600 for the 32 GB model.
The TouchPad will be available at most electronic retailers soon.
If you can't wait, you can preorder starting June 19 at HP's online store.
As for competing in the price arena, the TouchPad comes in at around $500 for the 16 gigabyte model and around $600 for the 32 GB model.
The TouchPad will be available at most electronic retailers soon.
If you can't wait, you can preorder starting June 19 at HP's online store.
HTC 7 Pro
I have been itching to get my hands on a Windows Phone 7 device and the HTC 7 Pro smartphone has arrived all charged up and ready.
The early report is that it's different from Android devices and the iPhone. Very different.
That's because it's sporting Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system that gives you Hubs and Titles on the homescreen instead of icons to gather all your related digital content into a single touch.
It has a touchscreen keypad as well as a sliding QWERTY keyboard that tilts. And the familiar windows Start menu is still around to launch the Hubs and Titles.
For Windows Mobile fans, this might be the one you've been waiting for.
It'll be available from Cellular South for $199.99 under contract once you receive a $50 mail-in reward card.
I'll let you know more about it soon.
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