We’ve already seen the HP TouchPad tablet, and HP Pre 3 made the official debut in Great Britain a couple of days ago. But the sales of HP were far, very far from what the Palo Alto-based company have expected. A retailer in US said that it has a supply of over 250,000 such tablets.
HP TouchPat is the first device that was born from the collaboration of HP and Palm, and the first such device to be running webOS.
We remind you that HP bought Palm last year and in the same time they got their hands on the webOS platfrom, available in the 3.0 version on the aforementioned tablet.
HP have put a lot of hopes in their TouchPad, and in my opinion they had all the reasons to do so. When it comes to technical specs, HP TouchPad is a real jewel. It sports a 1.2GHz Snapdragon CPU that makes the WebOS run smooth enough.
It also has enough memory, as this toy comes with 1GB of RAM, which makes the multitasking work without any problems.
HP TouchPad comes in two versions, one of 16GB and the other one of 32GB, internal storage space which should be enough for any tablet user. The 9.7-inch LED display comes with a resolution of 1024×768.
webOS is the operating system that HP got when they bought Palm for $1.1 billion in February 2010, and their wish was to enter the battle with Google Android, Apple iOS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.
Don’t get it wrong, webOS is not a lame operating system, but to be honest it requires better hardware than TouchPad can offer.
HP said they will not develop their ToucPad tablets and Pre 3 smartphones line-up anymore, but I personally don’t believe they will kill webOS.
At least that wouldn’t be smart, as they should try to find other companies willing to develop smartphones based on HP’s operating system, and when I say companies I’m thinking at Samsung, LG and whoever else.
After Google got their hands on Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson or HTC should not focus only on Android, but also find some solutions to give them some independence
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