***The Official HP TouchPad Thread***

so ... is there any recommendation of where to buy the accessories?
is the touchstone worth it?
what is the case like?
 
Mammalian said:
wow that is amazing. i assume data usage will be the same if used straight form the mobile that is tethering? e.g. i go to ocuk.com from sgs2 will use same data as going from sgs2 to touchpad?

surprised it's so simple and doesn't even need a cable :)
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Be careful I've just eaten all my data allowance in two days and put another 500mb on this morning
 
Robbo said:
That's why I like Android with HTC Sense, it makes it look pretty and polished, stock Android is pretty ugly, as are most of the custom skins like TouchWiz, etc. As are most of the apps, too.
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The problem is, like sense (and its precursor) on WinMo if only goes so deep, then you get the ugliness of the true OS. As you said as well a lot of android apps are certainly not pretty and while I'll admit I haven't really checked out android apps in the last few months there are very few I know of that come close to the design of a large amount of those on WP and seemingly WebOS.

Yes I am shallow, I like my devices to look beautiful as well as work well..
 
Ahleckz said:
Now I have music able to stream from my PC to the tablet, I now need video. I understand that avi isn't supported. What work around are people using?
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What did you use to do this? Also the player discussed earlier Karim or something does avi fine. Its not pretty but it works when I tested it.


mjones1 said:
Yep really simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGsG239_hbA
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Hmm, I tried tethering yesterday and it didn't show on my touchpad, maybe it was just because of the setup.
 
Anyone having troubles with the HP App Store? Keep trying to get on it but all I get is "The action could not be completed. Try again later."
 
Guys if you can't find the apps you want in the catalogue look in Preware as it has hundreds of apps not in the catalogue.
 
Bennie-Mac said:
Just overclocked it to 1.5GHz, feels a lot more responsive :)
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Heard a few people say that now is it really that dramatic? I just installed the more optimised kernel but not done any overclocking yet.

Someone told me that really it is 1.5GHz stock but HP underclocked it so they could sell the 64GB version as more of an upgrade
 
dasyad said:
Heard a few people say that now is it really that dramatic? I just installed the more optimised kernel but not done any overclocking yet.

Someone told me that really it is 1.5GHz stock but HP underclocked it so they could sell the 64GB version as more of an upgrade
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Yeah I believe they both used the same processor, but if you ever looked at any of the adverts for the 64GB version they all said it was 1.5GHz so I guess that's what they must have done.

Its not a dramatic difference by any means, however windows open faster and I haven't experienced any delays or mini freezes like I was before. Just seems to be a lot smoother and responsive. Piece of cake to do as well, totally worth it.
 
Amp34 said:
The problem is, like sense (and its precursor) on WinMo if only goes so deep, then you get the ugliness of the true OS. As you said as well a lot of android apps are certainly not pretty and while I'll admit I haven't really checked out android apps in the last few months there are very few I know of that come close to the design of a large amount of those on WP and seemingly WebOS.

Yes I am shallow, I like my devices to look beautiful as well as work well..
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+1 to this.
 
Well I've just tried kalemsoft media player. On the few times the connection to the server works, it constantly lags/drops out even with the buffer turned on. PQ is far worse than the ipad streaming from the same server in 480p.
Tried the upnp media streamer but I just can't get it to play ball no matter the transcoding setup on the server side.

I got this thing mainly for media and it seems I'm going to have to re encode films I want to watch and drop them over usb as wifi streaming seems very buggy.

I spent all last night doing the round I normally do on the ipad on the TP, crashed halfway though a skype call then crashed after a reboot while starting the call again in video mode.

I find the web browser to be usually ok, even if it's laggy but it has caused a system lockup once. Sometimes it just doesn't want to play ball until I reboot luna or in some cases a os reboot. Card based tabs is an odd way of doing things but makes sense given the platform, switching tabs is much faster than on the ipad but moving to new ones is much slower.

I love the audio performance of it. Both the built in speakers and the headphone amp are a step above the ipad with a full deep, clean bass and rich high tones on the headphone jack. Streaming web audio just works, an absolute keeper for these reasons alone.


Battery life is weird, last night it was sipping power, this morning it ate 30% in an hour. :confused: Usage was roughly the same. Also, brightness sensor seems out of whack, when it's bright I get low auto brightness and when it's dark it blinds you. Setting manual solves the problem, odd never the less. Screen is fantastic quality if a bit low res like the ipad.

Comming from an ipad I've been spoilt for choice with apps, moving to android market was an eye opener to what alternatives are like. The TP app store is poor at best. The odd app I want is usually designed for the pre. :(


I didn't get the chance to have the HP case when I ordered my touchstone but I've found my 'old' ipad2 folio case fits the touchpad pretty well. So that's its home for now.

All in all, I can't wait for a public android release even if it's 2.2. I know the touchpad was used as a testbed by qualcomm for android so it should be only a matter of time before it gets out.

Those are my 24hr+ thoughts. and about 400 'I's'. :)

For the £105 paid I think it's absolutely amazing. If I'd have paid £480 for it I would have been extremely disappointed. At that price point you're mad to not go for an ipad2 or transformer.
 
Greebo said:
Anybody know where I can buy a handful of touchstones at half price and in stock please?

Thanks
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Think you will have to try instore, anywhere that had stock online more or less went out yesterday.

Quick rummage through Google Shopping shows that some places are expecting stock soon though.
 
Lack of Apps is the big problem for me. I think I will be giving it to the mrs to use for browsing, iplayer etc. That means that 2 of them should be going on MM or ebay fairly soon. I enjoyed having a play around last night with it but am sort of bored already. I have an iPhone so most essential apps I just use on it.

Am glad in a way that I did get one as I know now that i won't use an iPad.
 
lay-z-boy said:
Well I've just tried kalemsoft media player. On the few times the connection to the server works, it constantly lags/drops out even with the buffer turned on. PQ is far worse than the ipad streaming from the same server in 480p.
Tried the upnp media streamer but I just can't get it to play ball no matter the transcoding setup on the server side.

I got this thing mainly for media and it seems I'm going to have to re encode films I want to watch and drop them over usb as wifi streaming seems very buggy.

I spent all last night doing the round I normally do on the ipad on the TP, crashed halfway though a skype call then crashed after a reboot while starting the call again in video mode.

I find the web browser to be usually ok, even if it's laggy but it has caused a system lockup once. Sometimes it just doesn't want to play ball until I reboot luna or in some cases a os reboot. Card based tabs is an odd way of doing things but makes sense given the platform, switching tabs is much faster than on the ipad but moving to new ones is much slower.

I love the audio performance of it. Both the built in speakers and the headphone amp are a step above the ipad with a full deep, clean bass and rich high tones on the headphone jack. Streaming web audio just works, an absolute keeper for these reasons alone.


Battery life is weird, last night it was sipping power, this morning it ate 30% in an hour. :confused: Usage was roughly the same. Also, brightness sensor seems out of whack, when it's bright I get low auto brightness and when it's dark it blinds you. Setting manual solves the problem, odd never the less. Screen is fantastic quality if a bit low res like the ipad.

Comming from an ipad I've been spoilt for choice with apps, moving to android market was an eye opener to what alternatives are like. The TP app store is poor at best. The odd app I want is usually designed for the pre. :(


I didn't get the chance to have the HP case when I ordered my touchstone but I've found my 'old' ipad2 folio case fits the touchpad pretty well. So that's its home for now.

All in all, I can't wait for a public android release even if it's 2.2. I know the touchpad was used as a testbed by qualcomm for android so it should be only a matter of time before it gets out.

Those are my 24hr+ thoughts. and about 400 'I's'. :)

For the £105 paid I think it's absolutely amazing. If I'd have paid £480 for it I would have been extremely disappointed. At that price point you're mad to not go for an ipad2 or transformer.
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have you upgraded to the latest version and installed the tweaks? by default the pad is limited to 64kb/s on wifi, so streaming is not going to be pretty!
 
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