***The Official HP TouchPad Thread***

Meh, TBH unless they can add cards into Android I'm almost certainly going to stick to WebOS. I love the true multitasking on the tablet. Hopefully the talk of running Android apps in WebOS will come to fruition shortly.
 
just remember though they arent replacing webos with android but will be making it dual boot so you can easily swap between webos and android. Best of both worlds!
 
Bry said:
just remember though they arent replacing webos with android but will be making it dual boot so you can easily swap between webos and android. Best of both worlds!
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This sounds like an ideal solution... or is there a downside to it somewhere?

I realise that it is not actually available now, but it doesn't look as it will be too long before it is! :)
 
Ahleckz said:
Didn't eject my Touchpad when in USB mode (just pulled the cable) and it says "OWWWW. That hurts!"

I lol'ed.
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Same xD

Which site do you register the touchpad on for the HP store discount?
Would like to see if I can pick up a touchstone with a decent discount :)

It's been keeping the missus amused quite well so far :)

Just need to find out which is the best eReader for it.
 
Android will probably be one of those things where the first 75% of progress is made quickly, but the last few niggles take forever to iron out.

It really needs ICS too, 2.3 really doesn't work well on a large screen.

Will be fantastic when they do get it working though.
 
Amp34 said:
Meh, TBH unless they can add cards into Android I'm almost certainly going to stick to WebOS. I love the true multitasking on the tablet. Hopefully the talk of running Android apps in WebOS will come to fruition shortly.
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Can I ask why? not trying to be awkward I'm just truly 'meh' about the 'proper' multitasking in WebOS,

I've got an SGS2 so use that daily, and just open an app as and when I want, the state is saved and there's never any delay on opening an app so it's seamless as to whether it was truly active in the background or not. If I want to see running apps I can, same as closing them (although it's awkward I admit).

What do the cards offer above that? It's nice animations but that's about all I can think of right now :p And the one major downside is that you lose any proper desktop and the widgets that Android provides.

Saying all that, I think it should be possible to write something similar to the card-style launcher if they someone was bored enough, guess you'd lose the bit about actually seeing what's in the app without being in it, kinda :p
 
Montala said:
This sounds like an ideal solution... or is there a downside to it somewhere?

I realise that it is not actually available now, but it doesn't look as it will be too long before it is! :)
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A slightly large downside, the fact you have to restart the device every time you want to use one or the other (generally). If you've ever dual booted on a computer you'll realise how much folly it is, you just stay in one or the other and the unused one pretty much just takes up space.

SKILL said:
Can I ask why? not trying to be awkward I'm just truly 'meh' about the 'proper' multitasking in WebOS,

I've got an SGS2 so use that daily, and just open an app as and when I want, the state is saved and there's never any delay on opening an app so it's seamless as to whether it was truly active in the background or not. If I want to see running apps I can, same as closing them (although it's awkward I admit).

What do the cards offer above that? It's nice animations but that's about all I can think of right now :p And the one major downside is that you lose any proper desktop and the widgets that Android provides.

Saying all that, I think it should be possible to write something similar to the card-style launcher if they someone was bored enough, guess you'd lose the bit about actually seeing what's in the app without being in it, kinda :p
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Widgets are pretty much taken care of by the top left corner (rotation, brightness, wifi etc.

The cards offer the ability to have several things open and easily accessable. For example you can click on a game and leave it loading in the background while you quickly check an email. The implimentation just makes it so much nicer than any version of Android I have tried for me at least.

The ability to swipe up and slide across to the open app is something that still makes me go "wow", it's almost like working on an actual computer, especially useful when you want to check something from one card and input it into another.

I do like the fact you can customise Android (if you can be bothered) to look as you want but other than that IMO WebOS just betters it in almost every other way (discounting apps), same with WP (post Mango at least).

On the other hand I will certainly try ICS on the device if it ever gets ported, just can't see the point in sticking a phone OS on it! In all truthfulness the only reason I bought a touchpad was because it was cheap and I will hopefully be able to run Win8 on it when that comes out.:p
 
I think the advantage of cards is that you can see which apps you have open, and easily move between them. It feels more like windows, you manually open/close apps, move between cards/windows etc.

The problem is that the web browser starts unloading pages when you get 3+ cards (or even fewer if you have really large pages), and I don't generally have that many cards open that I need to look at or switch between anyway.

So the Android approach of actually leaving the app "open" or cached, is just as good if not better, because you can access apps from your homescreen/widgets/recently opened apps, but Android decides when to actually unload the app. The alternative browsers have their own inbuilt tab functions too.
 
Can somebody please help me with my Kalemsoft streaming?

I have it workign fine locally on the home network. In fact better than fine as sat on the sofa or in bed watching hd movies stream without a fault is amazing.

Remotely I can't get past my firewalls and it's all gibberish to me! I have windows 7 home premium and a 2wire bt router.

Any idiot proof instructions in setting it up would be great.

Thanks
 
Amp34 said:
Widgets are pretty much taken care of by the top left corner (rotation, brightness, wifi etc.)

The cards offer the ability to have several things open and easily accessable. For example you can click on a game and leave it loading in the background while you quickly check an email. The implimentation just makes it so much nicer than any version of Android I have tried for me at least.

The ability to swipe up and slide across to the open app is something that still makes me go "wow", it's almost like working on an actual computer, especially useful when you want to check something from one card and input it into another.

I do like the fact you can customise Android (if you can be bothered) to look as you want but other than that IMO WebOS just betters it in almost every other way (discounting apps), same with WP (post Mango at least).

On the other hand I will certainly try ICS on the device if it ever gets ported, just can't see the point in sticking a phone OS on it! In all truthfulness the only reason I bought a touchpad was because it was cheap and I will hopefully be able to run Win8 on it when that comes out.:p
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Oddly I wasn't thinking of the switch widgets, the main ones would be:
Calendar, Bookmarks and Gmail/Email,

Obviously actually responding to emails is better in the app, and the Tablet app is way better than the phone one, but I like having a nice overview of emails on my home screen.

I rarely actually use it (preferring to click the icon) but surely the long-press home to get the recent apps does a fine job of seeing 'open' applications, I don't see the need to differentiate open/closed with the mobile os's as memory isn't an issue and neither is the speed to open apps up.

I do kinda agree with the pointless nature of using a phone OS on it, I'll give it a go but ICS will be the main one later on, but I'm looking forward to decent media support, WebOS does suck royally in that arena (both media support and it's effect on DLNA), it's the media stuff that makes me want Android.

In contrast the Kindle app is better on the Touchpad than even Honeycomb imo with the 2-page view (at least afaik HC/Android still lacks that), and that's been my main use of the touchpad so far tbh, night time book reading and some light web browsing.

JIM_BOB7813 said:
I think the advantage of cards is that you can see which apps you have open, and easily move between them. It feels more like windows, you manually open/close apps, move between cards/windows etc.

The problem is that the web browser starts unloading pages when you get 3+ cards (or even fewer if you have really large pages), and I don't generally have that many cards open that I need to look at or switch between anyway.

So the Android approach of actually leaving the app "open" or cached, is just as good if not better, because you can access apps from your homescreen/widgets/recently opened apps, but Android decides when to actually unload the app. The alternative browsers have their own inbuilt tab functions too.
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I think I agree, as I mentioned above with the speed in which mobile apps open, combined with all of the OS's memory management a decently powerful device like the Touchpad doesn't really need to worry about whether an app is open, 'cached' or closed, which makes one aspect of the cards (actually closing the app) kinda pointless, although switching is possibly nicer you lose the desktop so it's a 6/half-dozen situation...
 
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