I have purchased an HP TouchPad

It's official: HP to bring back TouchPad for "encore." Story coming soon on CNET. #cnet

(From Twitter)


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"A limited supply are coming and it will be a few weeks before they are available. As we know more about how, when, and where TouchPads will be available, we will communicate that here and through e-mail to those who requested notification," said Mark Budgell, public relations manager at HP.

"HP will be manufacturing a limited quantity of TouchPads with WebOS during our fourth fiscal quarter 2011, which ends October 31," he said.

But the company will not continue to make more TouchPads following this production run to meet demand. "HP is discontinuing the development of WebOS devices and is winding down device operations within our fourth fiscal quarter 2011," he wrote.

Regarding price, he said that "some retailers won't price match or drop their price to $99. Each retailer will manage their own policy and process regarding pricing and price matching. Please contact the local retailer of your choice to see what their current position is."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20...#ixzz1WXwQf8Pj

Apparently only for the US though :( I really want one but it seems unlikely that I will!

erm.. what do they do?

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erm.. what do they do?

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They're a tablet, like an iPad.

I think this alone is well worth the cost (I've got a 32gb touchpad) regardless if android is ported or not:

http://www.tom-pryor.co.uk/touch/chrome.jpg

Fancy some speed? (1.728ghz stable overclock)

http://www.tom-pryor.co.uk/touch/cpu.jpg

Perhaps write a document?

http://www.tom-pryor.co.uk/touch/writer.jpg

http://www.tom-pryor.co.uk/touch/libre.jpg

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Waste of £90 if Android doesn't get ported! :P

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God dammit. What distro is that?

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I think this alone is well worth the cost (I've got a 32gb touchpad) regardless if android is ported or not:



Fancy some speed? (1.728ghz stable overclock)



Perhaps write a document?

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Really! Is that running within WebOS just as an x window system or are you only running whatever distro it is? How's the battery life?

Ubuntu with LXDE (lower resource use) but it should have no problems running Gnome, KDE, Unity or any other desktop manager as long as its compiled for ARM. It runs in a chroot jail within WebOS and XServer actually runs as a WebOS card meaning you can use both WebOS and Ubuntu at the same time and switch between them like any other application on the tablet. It can run any Linux application that is compiled for ARM (Ubuntu's default repositories currently list 32,090 available packages for ARM) or if its not then you can try crosscompiling it yourself.

Edit: Battery life is excellent. Been using it almost none stop with both WiFi and bluetooth (for BT keyboard which I also picked up at a massive discount xD) on since I took it off charge 4 and a half hours ago and its currently at 79%.

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God dammit. What distro is that?

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Ubuntu with LXDE (lower resource use) but it should have no problems running Gnome, KDE, Unity or any other desktop manager as long as its compiled for ARM. It runs in a chroot jail within WebOS and XServer actually runs as a WebOS card meaning you can use both WebOS and Ubuntu at the same time and switch between them like any other application on the tablet. It can run any Linux application that is compiled for ARM (Ubuntu's default repositories currently list 32,090 available packages for ARM) or if its not then you can try crosscompiling it yourself.

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You cannot boot Ubuntu outside of WebOS?

Not yet, but it should be possible soon. However, I think I prefer it this way as you get the best of both at the same time.

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You cannot boot Ubuntu outside of WebOS?

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