HP's TouchPad Tablet, Smartphones Put WebOS Back in the Game
Sam Diaz submits:
Hewlett Packard (HPQ) put its best foot forward today with an update to the mobile webOS platform that it inherited in the acquisition of Palm. At an event in San Francisco, the company introduced three new products - two smartphones and a new tablet PC that drew applause from the audience at the event. Called HP Touchpad, the tablet PC - at least initially - looks like a strong contender in what’s about to be a crowded industry. Maybe it’s seamless synchronization with webOS smartphones or the powerful dual core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon processor. Perhaps it’s the use of Flash - something that Apple’s iPhone and iPad don’t support. But, like the early use of this OS in the original Palm Pre and Pixi smartphones, the overall OS experience is what comes across as most impressive, designed with the user - whether a consumer or business customer - in mind. How else do you explain a touch-screen keyboard that can be sized from small to large, depending on the user’s comfort level? Finally, a tablet PC touchscreen keyboard that adapts so that users like me - people who create a lot of original content - can type on the screen as if it were an actual keyboard. And let’s not forget about the “Just type” bar, a blank bar that brings up the keyboard and then asks what the user wants to do with the words: Search? Send to Google? Post to Twitter (via a third party add-on app.) Regardless,Complete Story »
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