First of all, the update contains a Camera for Touchpad app, the ability to answer calls from non-webOS phones, a “streamlined” Bluetooth experience (especially with keyboards), support for Ogg Vorbis music files, and online / offline messaging status support, and what HP calls “better performance” and “user interface improvements,” as well as a number of other enhancements and “more robust Skype video calling”. So, they basically made the Touchpad, much, much better. Via: Official HP Palm Blog
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HP Touchpad webOS 3.0.4 Update Adds Plenty Of Great Features To A Dead Tablet
HP’s New CEO Is Meg Whitman, Leo Apotheker Is Out
So, after the disaster that was Leo Apotheker in the eyes of some elite consumers and journalists, HP has gon ahead and hired the former CEO of eBay — Meg Whitman. This should be interesting. Also, or your information, Meg will not be CEO for the interim, but in the coming future (i.e. it’s her new job). At the very least, Ms. Whitman started with the team at eBay from a small startup to a major site that is recognized throughout the world. And did we mention that webOS, HP’s $1.2 billion business that they spontaneously (read: essentially Leo Apotheker) decided to spin-off has put HP in a rater unsure position in regards to its management. Full PR after the break.
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Take A Look At The HP Touchpad 7-Inch Version That Will Never Come..
What you’re looking at above is the TouchPad Go — in other words, a 7-inch Touchpad. Since HP has killed off webOS for the meantime however, we will not know of this 7-inch webOS powerhouse. Purported specs included a 1.5GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor, a rear-facing camera with flash, front-facing cam, 16GB storage and a 4:3 aspect ratio for the 7-inch screen with a resolution of 1024×768, like the 9.7-inch Touchpad. However, what was going to be the most interesting about this little prototype is the NFC chip that is seemingly included. Oh well. Via: ZooPDA forums
HP Touchpad Will Receive OTA Update In The Future
The HP Touchpad is not at its very last OTA (over-the-air) update, as a spokesperson for HP stated to CNET that the Touchpad will receive an OTA update that as according to official, “HP TouchPad owners can look forward to an over-the-air update that will enhance the platform and add functionality and a growing applications catalog.”
This all adds up to a very nice combination of the QuickOffice HD update, the App Catalog getting updated apps, and now a future OTA update for all of those new fire sale owners, like me.
Via: CNET
QuickOffice HD Support Added To HP TouchPad
Despite webOS being a rather unsure matter (and it’s a wonderful OS on my overclocked 1.5GHZ dual-core Touchpad) a dedicated word processing app had been one of the things promised to users from the start, and that promise was kept. QuickOffice HD is now available to all Touchpad owners as an update to the app, for free. It adds document editing and creation, including Microsoft Word and Excel. As you can see above it works like a charm. Via: HP
HP Touchpad Running A Qualcomm Build Of Android 2.2.1 Breaks Out
So, this is rather expected, but exciting. Android 2.2.1 (not 2.3 or Honeycomb folks) has been placed on an HP Touchpad by some Qualcomms dudes, since the Touchpad makes use of a 1.2GHz dual-coreprocessor from that very company. A fully-working build of Froyo is seen running on the video seen after the break, and Qualcomm so far has denied all questions regarding why and how they got the Touchpad to get this running. However in the meantime, there’s a $2100 bounty (and growing) by the HacknMod team for whoever can pull of a perfect Android 2.2.1 port to the Touchpad first — multitouch, sound, camera, and WiFi. Good luck to those involved, and the video of the leaked Qualcomm build can be seen after the break. Via: Reddit
HP Begins The Dreaded Liquidation Of The Touchpad — 16GB For $99 And 32GB FOr $149
Last week at this time I would have told you I would’t buy a Toucpad. I’d say it’s a pretty good tablet ith the times I’ve had hands-on with it, but actually wouldn’t buy one myself. Well, fast-forward and find that HP is stopping its software dedication to webOS, and thus will discontinue all webOS devices. The HP Touchpad got some pretty good reviews (especially post-update, where tons of bug fixes and speed increases showed up) before that, and now HP has send notices to all of its affiliates asking them to cut down the price to $99 for the 16GB model and $149 for the 32GB model. It is also important to note that the webOS App Catalog is still live, and even though a few devs are pulling their apps, there are always ways to sideload them much like you’d do with Android. Also since the HP Touchpad has incredibly capable specs (9.7-inch 1024×768 IPS screen, 1.2GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor, etc.) that it is perfect for web browsing (the browser rules) and simple note-taking, along with all of the other things you can come to expect of tablets. Also you can be sure modders will port Android to it, in an almost non-buggy state.
Turns out they are incredibly hard to find, but thanks to my vast number of “internet frandz”, I have found one (much like I did with the iPad 2).
So now are you buying a Touchpad? Via: PreCentral
HP Is Quitting On webOS Phones And Tablets
It’s over. HP will be dropping its line of webOS tablets and phones. Keep in mind webOS wasn’t bad at all, but it never caught a true place in the market. HP also let it be known that they will “continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward”, which still isn’t good news no matter how you look at it. Goodbye, webOS.
However on the flipside, HP might spin-off their PC business as well, which is another thing to keep a close eye on. And while I truly never liked webOS, I did find it to be visually appealing, and it’s a shame it won’t go anywhere, unless it is sold off to another company willing to handle it. Oh well.
Via: HP
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