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HP TouchPad 16GB - $99.

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So, I've been using the touchpad I'm currently posting with for around 4 hours today. Played some Sparkle and Robotek, browsed the web for a while, and read some PDFs for work. Currently I'm at 50% battery remaining. I have the brightness set around 30%. This seems like reasonable battery life to me.
 
jinsaotomex4 said:
The web browser definitely needs a lot of work. Even advanced browser isn't that much better. There also needs to be a way to change the default browser to advanced browser as any links still open with the regular browser.
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Install Preware, it provides a lot of enhancement in general, and there is there a patch to make Adv browser the default browser.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page


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JackMDS said:
Install Preware, it provides a lot of enhancement in general, and there is there a patch to make Adv browser the default browser.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page


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Yeah Preware has some great patch. I have alread tweaked mine and running at 1.5ghz.
http://www.webosbuzz.com/forum.php is a great site with lots of info.

My ipad is now sitting collecting dust...soon to be ebayed.
The reason I hated Ipad was because of its lack of USB, itune, multitask-ability and lack of flash support.
 
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jinsaotomex4 said:
The web browser definitely needs a lot of work. Even advanced browser isn't that much better. There also needs to be a way to change the default browser to advanced browser as any links still open with the regular browser.
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The browser is one of the screwier parts from the "it should just work" perspective. They're using WebKit, Apple's renderer for Safari. It should have similar features and be similarly fast, but it's not.
 
ViRGE said:
The browser is one of the screwier parts from the "it should just work" perspective. They're using WebKit, Apple's renderer for Safari. It should have similar features and be similarly fast, but it's not.
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Their browser fork is over a year out of date on the version of webkit it's using. Also, they didn't implement iframe scolling, so it's worthless with gmail, google docs, etc.

I wonder if chromium could be compiled for the touchpad.... it appears to be statically compiled by default, so all the necessary libraries should be included...someone should drop an ARM binary of chromium on the touchpad and see if it works.
 
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I bought my first and probably the last app for the Touchpad, Comicshelf HD. I guess I could've used Calibre to convert the CBR comics to PDF and use Adobe Reader to read it but I figure it's worth $2 not to convert. Comics look great on the Touchpad.

Touchpad needs a good epub ebook reader. pReader alpha isn't it. You would think HP would have made one.
 
My wife had to take my son out for something this evening. I walked through the kitchen and noticed her Touchpad is missing... I'm assuming she likes it. 🙂
 
Naustica said:
Touchpad needs a good epub ebook reader. pReader alpha isn't it. You would think HP would have made one.
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I use pReader that i downloaded from the app market, it works fine for all 10 of the Epub files i have loaded on here so far. I had to change the encoding to UTF-8 though.
 
The browser on this thing is so screwy. And seriously, no background loading of webpages? If you open a link in a new card and then tap on the original card, the new card just sits there like an idiot doing nothing. WTH. Every other mobile OS seems to know what to do correctly . . .
 
Muyoso said:
The browser on this thing is so screwy. And seriously, no background loading of webpages? If you open a link in a new card and then tap on the original card, the new card just sits there like an idiot doing nothing. WTH. Every other mobile OS seems to know what to do correctly . . .
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I know. I hate it, so annoying.
 
JackMDS said:
Install Preware, it provides a lot of enhancement in general, and there is there a patch to make Adv browser the default browser.

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page


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The patch doesn't fully do what I would like. For example, typing stuff from the just type... box makes it open with the advanced browser but if I launch the mail app and click on a link, it opens with the default browser anyway.

A link to the patch you speak of would be great if you don't mind.
I am using this patch http://forums.precentral.net/hp-tou...en-just-type-google-search-i.html#post3069674
 
ViRGE said:
As inadequate as webOS is at times, is anyone really excited about Android 2.x? All the 2.x tablets I've seen have been rubbish because of the software, just like webOS on the TouchPad. It seems to me that the only Android worth switching to is Android 3.x.
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no this isn't right. 3.x is lacking as well compared to webOS. Even with the little quirks this thing should easily compete with iOS. Just depends if you like the huge Apple ecosystem or don't mind something without it. There are a lot of HUGE ui improvements webOS has that iOS could really use.
 
ViRGE said:
As inadequate as webOS is at times, is anyone really excited about Android 2.x? All the 2.x tablets I've seen have been rubbish because of the software, just like webOS on the TouchPad. It seems to me that the only Android worth switching to is Android 3.x.
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Its what they have to work with right now, since HoneyComb is closed source. After ICS source drops, we'll see what happens.
 
bfdd said:
no this isn't right. 3.x is lacking as well compared to webOS. Even with the little quirks this thing should easily compete with iOS. Just depends if you like the huge Apple ecosystem or don't mind something without it. There are a lot of HUGE ui improvements webOS has that iOS could really use.
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To be clear, I'm not saying Android 3.x is perfect. I'm only saying that webOS has a lot of problems right now, and that moving to Android 2.x is just trading one set of problems for another since Android 2.x isn't designed for tablets. 3.x would be the only thing that's an upgrade for the TouchPad in most respects.
 
ViRGE said:
As inadequate as webOS is at times, is anyone really excited about Android 2.x? All the 2.x tablets I've seen have been rubbish because of the software, just like webOS on the TouchPad. It seems to me that the only Android worth switching to is Android 3.x.
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I'm excited about CM7. I actually think 2.3.5 Gingerbread works very well on a tablet despite Google's claim they didn't designed it for a tablet. I haven't run into any issues with my 7" Galaxy Tab running Gingerbread. If anything I would say it works better than Honeycomb tablet since everything is pretty much compatible with it. I still see plenty of reviews on Amazon free app of the day complaining about the app not working with their Honeycomb tablet.

If CM7 pulls off dual boot, that would be major win-win. It would make the Touchpad unique and every geeks dream tablet. Think of it as the Macintosh of the tablet world. 🙂
 
So far I like webOS it has some quirks but its livable for now Android ??? Not sure if I'd switch to it. Would have to be a way back to webOS for me to try it I think.
 
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