It’s graphically coherent, elegant, fluid and satisfying. The case is glossy black plastic - a magnet for fingerprints, unfortunately, but it looks wicked great in the first five minutes. make a convincing enough case that you should gamble on this unknown quantity?įirst of all, the TouchPad is beautiful. The only buying question you have to ask yourself, then, is: Does H.P. understands that the TouchPad’s only hope is differentiating itself from the better established tablets. Animations are sometimes jerky, reactions to your finger swipes sometimes uncertain.Īnd despite being thicker, the TouchPad’s battery life lasts only about eight hours on a charge (the iPad gets 10 hours). Apps can take a long time to open the built-in chat app, for example, takes seven seconds to appear. When you rotate the screen, it takes the screen two seconds to match - an eternity in tablet time. It supposedly has a blazing-fast chip inside, but you wouldn’t know it. It can sometimes pinpoint its own location on Bing Maps by referencing nearby Wi-Fi hot spots, but it doesn’t have real GPS (what were they thinking?). It has Wi-Fi, but can’t get online over the cellphone network, too. It has a front camera for video chatting but, unlike its rivals, no camera on the back. It’s the same size as the iPad, but it’s 40 percent thicker (.75 inches thick) and 20 percent heavier (1.6 pounds) - a bitter spec to swallow in a gadget you hold upright all day long. Now, from a hardware-checklist perspective, the TouchPad doesn’t get off to a good start. No Google apps like Google Mobile, Google Earth or Google Voice. But some pretty popular apps are among the missing. There’s a Kindle app, Pandora and Angry Birds, thank goodness. points out, however, that there are even fewer for Android tablets, even after several months: only 232.) Which means, of course, that there aren’t many apps for it yet.
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