Hands On With The HP TouchPad

HP TouchPad is one of the products HP announced today to introduce a unique experience for customers around connected mobility, offering a unified experience for the first time across a variety of devices. The best thing about the 2011 HP TouchPad may be how multi-tasking appears to work, which does seem to go beyond Apple's "one window at a a time" interface.

Finally, will the new HP phones and TouchPads sync seamlessly with best-selling Mac notebooks and iTunes, Apple Mail, Address Book and Safari Bookmarks. It's also far far easier for TouchPad app library to catch up to Android tablet app library (minimal) vs.

The HP Touchpad is a genuine threat to the current iPad and possibly the iPad 2. One of the killer features that can't be found on a competing tablet right now is this one's ability to talk to the Pre 3 so long as there's a Touchstone involved, one can have their Pre 3 and TouchPad communicate, even piping over notifications and texts from the phone onto the slate.

Whether your thing is Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, IM, video calling or email, TouchPad brings it all together with thousands of available webOS applications and the convenience and power of HP Synergy for integrated contacts and calendar to keep your busy life on track. HP TouchPad is scheduled to be available in the summer. As you’d expect, the TouchPad supports Activity Cards, so you can easily switch between applications, as well as whisk them off the screen. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait until summer to get the Wi-Fi only TouchPad. At first glance, the worst thing about the HP TouchPad is the iPad knock-off "look-and-feel" of both the hardware, software — and even the news conference.