TouchPad Raises the Bar on Productivity
Ever since the launch of the first iPad, there have been numerous tablets introduced into the market. From the Blackberry Playbook to the various Android tablets, none seem to master productivity improvements quite like the HP TouchPad.
The TouchPad is great for the average consumer but really excels for business professionals who need high levels of productivity and usability from their devices. The TouchPad’s emailing app, wireless printing, and access to Flash enabled sites gives it the productive edge of a laptop of desktop computer.
The most notable features of the TouchPad include:
Multi-tasking
- Interplay between multiple apps, multiple windows within the same app and multiple browser tabs gives users a simple and easy way to move from one thing to the next
- An embedded notification system to keep you up to date with activities and tasks
- Related activities can be automatically grouped together into card stacks
- Smartphone/tablet interaction to organise devices for maximum efficiency
Full Web Experience
- Browse the full web
- Supports latest web technologies and is compatible with Flash
Smartphone Interaction
- Option to pair an HP Smartphone with the TouchPad is available
- Calls received to your phone can be bumped to speakerphone on the tablet, similarly for text messaging
- Touch –to-Share capabilities allow you to take a Web page from the TouchPad and share it to your Smartphoneby simply touching the phone to the tablet.
Email App
- Streamlined email process with multi-tasking capabilities
- Easy to move between various email accounts and folders to a full screen view of a message
- Contacts, calendars, messages, photos and email automatically synced from facebook, google and ms exchange
What do you think of the HP TouchPad – what features are most important to you when it comes to a tablet?
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This looks to be an interesting move forward. But I have to wonder what with another Tablet OS how much development will there be for it?
iPad OS & Android have had a great take up in the app front of things.
Now we have HP WebOS and many others I’m sure. Is it really worth chancing a smaller OS version?
Hi Chris, thanks for the comment, we actually had a rep from HP in the office on Friday so i mentioned your comment about the HP WebOS, here’s the response
“HP’s working model is to have webOS available on all PCs (86 million) by next year, running on top of Microsoft who remain very much an important strategic partner. We’re in the very early stages of this TouchPad market. It’s the beginning of a marathon and not the end of the sprint and the opportunity for app developers to put their software on millions of devices is, we feel, pretty compelling. There will be 7,500 webOS apps available on launch and we’ll be adding many more.”
“From conception, webOS was designed to be mobile, scalable, connected to the cloud. Unlike any of the products floating around today, TouchPad is always connected to the Internet—you don’t need to connect it to anything. It takes ease of use to a whole new level. Our strategy is centered on connectivity: seamless, secure context-aware connected experiences across a multitude of devices”
Just thought I’d revisit my comment above given the recent developments within HP. Which my Account manager informed me of (Mental note : Read the news a bit more).
It’s always interesting to see how new tech will develope and this could have been a good addition to the HP line up of products. More so if they had developed the Windows frontscreen as well.
But it feels like HP have made a good decission in dropping this item, but it is a massive shame that they have pulled out fo the hardware side of things. There printers have always been some of the best in the business.