In terms of size and basic capabilities, the HP TouchPad is very similar to the current iPad, the Motorola Xoom and Samsung’s 10-inch Tab . It has a 9.7-inch capacitive touch-screen with a 1024 x 768 resolution, weighs in at 1.6 pounds, and measures a little over half an inch from front to back. The HP TouchPad has the front-facing camera for video calling that the current iPad lacks, but we fully expect an upgraded iPad with camera before the first TouchPad arrives this summer. The Xoom and Tab both have front-facing cameras.
webOS
The HP tablet runs webOS, the operating system it acquired when it bought Palm last year, and webOS supports true multitasking, meaning it can run more than one program at the same time. Apple’s iOS offers some multitasking, but not all programs can use it, and when a running program wants to get your attention, it interrupts whatever else is going on.
Specs
The HP TouchPad webOS tablet has a 9.7-inch display, a 1.2-GHz dual-core SnapDragon processor from Qualcomm, 512 MB of RAM, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, 3.5 mm headphones jack, TouchStone dock compatibility, 16 or 32 GB of storage and a microUSB charger. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from a tablet nowadays.
Dividing Up Tasks
WebOS divides up your tasks into a series of ‘cards’ that you can flick between using the touchscreen. HP describes the idea behind the system as ‘True Multitasking’, but which it doesn’t just mean a hardware- or software-based capability, but rather a way of organising your tasks so you can easily work on multiple cards at once.
In terms of size and basic capabilities, the HP TouchPad is very similar to the current iPad, the Motorola Xoom and Samsung’s 10-inch Tab . It has a 9.7-inch capacitive touch-screen with a 1024 x 768 resolution, weighs in at 1.6 pounds, and measures a little over half an inch from front to back. The HP TouchPad has the front-facing camera for video calling that the current iPad lacks, but we fully expect an upgraded iPad with camera before the first TouchPad arrives this summer. The Xoom and Tab both have front-facing cameras.
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