Poll: HP TouchPad - $99 in US - any sign of UK drop?

[Big_Ted]

Yeah, but it will never be an official port. The modders are amazing at what they can achieve, but IMO you can't beat the stability of an original ROM.

Except that HP's engineers are working on a port and hope to have one in about 2 weeks.

 

[EZTARGET]

Yeah, but it will never be an official port. The modders are amazing at what they can achieve, but IMO you can't beat the stability of an original ROM.

That is statement without substance I am afraid. At worst, the modders won't have enough time to spend making it bulletproof. But that doesn't matter, it just has to be good enough. And it isn't stored in ROM btw, but I get what you mean.

 

[PhillyDee]

Darlington PCW has stocks of the Bluetooth keyboard - If anyone buys 2 I will have one off them. Otherwise, I cannot find any accessories up here at all!

 

[korbk]

Except that HP's engineers are working on a port and hope to have one in about 2 weeks.

I hadn't heard that anywhere. If it's true then that's excellent. Thanks for the info.

 

[korbk]

That is statement without substance I am afraid. At worst, the modders won't have enough time to spend making it bulletproof. But that doesn't matter, it just has to be good enough. And it isn't stored in ROM btw, but I get what you mean.

Oh, sorry, I thought it was like the Orange San Francisco.

How do you install another OS onto the Touchpad?

DAMN you all! I was trying to talk myself out of wanting a Touchpad. No you're making me want want again

 

[EZTARGET]

How do you install another OS onto the Touchpad?(

It [the os] is stored on flash memory iirc, and can be replaced, although it's not straightforward.

 

[Sukh]

Why does everyone want a touchstone so much?

Its just a glorified charger that costs the best part of a quarter of the tablet?

 

[FirebarUK]

Except that HP's engineers are working on a port and hope to have one in about 2 weeks.

HP's engineers are not working on a port. It's a community effort.

 

[PhillyDee]

Why does everyone want a touchstone so much?

Its just a glorified charger that costs the best part of a quarter of the tablet?

A quarter of the reduced price maybe! To me, its a wireless storage dock / stand. No need to plug anything in, or forget to charge it. As long as its put back on the touchstone, then its ok!

People pay through the nose for Apple accessories that cost even more than this, yet it is accepted.

Admittedly, it is not worth the full price.

 

[Jono8]

Why does everyone want a touchstone so much?

Its just a glorified charger that costs the best part of a quarter of the tablet?

At £75 i wouldnt have gone near it but for £35 i think it is a good by. Trust me i was apprehensive about getting one but to have an adjustable stand/dock to place it safely on with the ability to charge it very easily is great

neat bit of kit

 

[Edrof]

It does look quite nice, too.

 

[Big_Ted]

Oh, sorry, I thought it was like the Orange San Francisco.

How do you install another OS onto the Touchpad?

DAMN you all! I was trying to talk myself out of wanting a Touchpad. No you're making me want want again

Before release Qualcom (the cpu maker) tried android 2.2.1 on the touchpad and got it working.

There has been one of these to get into the wild and has been on ebay.

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/qualcomm-already-had-android-running-on-the-touchpad-20110823

Plus there are many reports of WebOS running twice as face on the ipad than on the touchpad much to HP's embarrassment.

I have also read a report that HP are working with another big company (some thing Samsung) to port WebOS to their pads so as to get round Apple IP court cases and reliance on Google now they have bought Motorola.

 

[korbk]

Before release Qualcom (the cpu maker) tried android 2.2.1 on the touchpad and got it working.

There has been one of these to get into the wild and has been on ebay.

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/qualcomm-already-had-android-running-on-the-touchpad-20110823

Plus there are many reports of WebOS running twice as face on the ipad than on the touchpad much to HP's embarrassment.

I have also read a report that HP are working with another big company (some thing Samsung) to port WebOS to their pads so as to get round Apple IP court cases and reliance on Google now they have bought Motorola.

All very interesting. Thank you for sharing what you know.

Does that mean there's a future for WebOS on the Touchpad?

 

[Big_Ted]

All very interesting. Thank you for sharing what you know.

Does that mean there's a future for WebOS on the Touchpad?

HP have announced that they will continue support for it on the touchpad and are looking at other uses, ie phones and possibly putting it on pc's as well.

 

[korbk]

HP have announced that they will continue support for it on the touchpad and are looking at other uses, ie phones and possibly putting it on pc's as well.

I assume that with so many being sold they have even more reason to continue especially as not everyone is going to want to or indeed be capable of installing Android.

 

[Big_Ted]

I assume that with so many being sold they have even more reason to continue especially as not everyone is going to want to or indeed be capable of installing Android.

Plus with 1.2 billion spent buying palm for webOS etc they need to make some of that money back plus if people like it on the tablet they might buy it on other devices as well like people already do for android.

 

[korbk]

Plus with 1.2 billion spent buying palm for webOS etc they need to make some of that money back plus if people like it on the tablet they might buy it on other devices as well like people already do for android.

What I don't understand is, if they were so concerned about making money back, why did they reduce the price of the TouchPad so heavily?

 

[EZTARGET]

HP have announced that they will continue support for it on the touchpad and are looking at other uses, ie phones and possibly putting it on pc's as well.

No phone are out of it too. They are saying things like printers (obvious big part of HP), and maybe other (?) things. PCs? They said they are getting out of this market. They would love to license it I suppose (to Phone/Tablets/PCs), but that is all spectulative atm.

 

[Big_Ted]

For those of you looking for the pre3 keep an eye on CPW as they have a deal for it at £10.49 free handset http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/HP-PRE3/MONTHLY?portal=BUYAT&promo=hotukdeals and available for delivery http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/buy/HP-PRE3-TB10T-FCON

Also have read rumours cpw bought the job lot of them off HP

 

[james.miller]

Plus there are many reports of WebOS running twice as face on the ipad than on the touchpad much to HP's embarrassment.

not quite....

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...pes_to_license_it_as_mobile_web_app_tool.html

While early reports suggested that HP had internally got webOS running on Apple's iPad 2 hardware only to find that it purportedly ran "twice as fast" there, the reality is that webOS developers had actually brought their Enyo software development kit to the iPad 2, as AppleInsider has confirmed with a source within the webOS team.

Enyo is HP's JavaScript development framework for building web apps, core to webOS as a platform. Rather than resulting from an extreme difference in hardware, the aspect of Apple's tablet that made it run Enyo webOS apps so much faster is Apple's superior web browser JavaScript performance compared to the less sophisticated, simply named "Web" browser of webOS.

the touchpad's questionable browser performance is well documented and i suspect a lot of that is down to the java issues. Fix that and i doubt there would be any difference.

At any rate, why would the OS be twice as fast on what is very similar hardware? it wouldnt.