Got the last 32gb one at the local office depot yesterday morning. For $150 it's fantastic. For $400+ originally, it's a piece of crap.
1st, who ever thought that a smooth-as-glass back plastic piece was a good idea? The iphone can get away with it because you can wrap your fingers around the side. Unless you can palm a basketball, you'll be squeezing the 3/4 inch around the edge very tightly. This brings up the fact that the panel edge is not supported well and flexes in your required death pinch.
WebOS is pretty damn nice. Seems to respond well most of the time and not difficult to learn. I been using it for 5 hours on Pandora while I work on my motorcycle and occasionally browse while paint dries. Battery is still at 63%. Using it right now in fact to reply.
I mostly browse and email, so don't really care that there isn't 40+ flashlight apps. The only app I really wish for is netflix. The music sounds very good from the built in speakers. Obviously not real loud, but enough to give background noise sing-a-long music while I'm working on my bike.
The front button is way to skinny and small for how much you use it.
Flash actually mostly works (I use iphone for same usage normally) and its nice to not have to squint to read. Too bad the fonts are butt ugly plain.
Here's my must-have list for apps on this. None are official apps.
1 - homebrew application installer (the hacker side of things not listed on approved apps (basically jailbreak type stuff)
2. Touchpad Uberkernel - Kernel that overclocks the processor to 1500mhz (stock is 1200mhz). Makes things faster when needed. Doesn't appear to have any real impact on battery life when doing normal things. Obviously, if you crunch numbers all day, it will affect battery life, but for short fast bursts like when opening applications, it doesn't.
3. Ad Blocker - So when you browse you don't get popup windows and crap. Even more essential on a slow (relative to a PC) tablet.
4. Muffle System Logging - turns off all the internal system logging going on to speed up the system (apparently WebOS does a LOT of internal logging by default).
5. Remove Dropped Packet Logging - Turns off another internal log that the previous one does not.
6. EOM Overlord Monitoring - Turns off off the crap that HP has WebOS send them on what you are doing (like what apps you have, how often you use a certain app, etc).
Overall, happy for money spent.
Funny how HP abandons the market and in doing so actually acquires a decent percentage of it in user/owners.
