The hp TouchPad Tablet – Things You Need To Know Before You Buy It

The Hewelett-Packard (hp) finally decided to enter the tablet market competetion with its TouchPad, the first hp device running on webOS 3.0. It is not what experts were expecting from a company like hp but considering its features and considering that it is the first tablet of this kind that hp releases it worth a second look. The TouchPad may look like the old iPad from outside but from inside it is totally different, although that still it can’t compete other tablets especially the iPad 2 and Galaxy 10.1.

Here are the main advantages of the TouchPad according to experts that might catch your attention:

1-    Multitasks: with the webOS 3.0 running on the 1.2 GHz processor and either the 16 GB or the 32 GB storage, you can run multi tasks on the TouchPad. Actually this is a great feature giving users great flexibility as you don’t need to close an app to open another one. Sometimes you only need to open an app just to check something like your email and go back to what you were doing, if the tablet doesn’t support multitasking you will be forced to close what you were doing and start over again after checking your email for example.

2-    Another good thing supported by the hp TouchPad is the built in flash, this enables you to watch online videos and browse the internet and open many images on websites that need flash support. This problem of running flash is still not fixed yet on the iPad so to find it in the first hp tablet this is a great benefit over the iPad. I know that this is not a great deal for some people but for others who browse the internet too much I think that this feature will catch their attention. It is up to you, think of what feature that you need more and what price suits you then decide which device you will go with.

3-    For those who care about the quality of the screen the TouchPad has a 9.7 inches multi-touch screen that is easy to use, clear colors, bright and have a good view from different angles comparing to the iPad. The screen has a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, this is a very good resolution.

4-    In the front there is a 1.3 MP camera that I don’t think that most people will use for taking pictures, but it is good when it comes to video calling. The reason why I don’t think that people will use it for taking pictures is that it doesn’t make sense that someone will hold up a 9.7 inches device to take a picture of something, there are digital cameras and mobile phone cameras that are much better to use for this purpose.

These are some advantages of the TouchPad that may affect your decision before deciding whether you are going to buy it or not.