HP TouchPad in the test, Elegant lone fighter against iPad and Co.

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HP TouchPad in the test, Elegant lone fighter against iPad and Co.

This Tablet is different – even if you can not see from the outside. Because the TouchPad computer giant HP is the first time the former Palm operating system webOS in a flat version for computers. What can the device? What are the weaknesses? A test. Is this place yet? For an additional flat next to the computer all iPads, Androids and the Blackberry Playbook? Hewlett-Packard ( HP ) says: yes – and now brings the TouchPad in the trade. A tablet computer that will do it differently than the others. And although it is based on ordinary hardware, iPad, resembling honeycomb Tablets.

The Streichelcomputer to convince potential customers with its independent user interface and operating system webOS 3.0. A system that HP is about a year ago with the acquisition of Palm incorporated. But also a system that nobody else uses, and could not celebrate the great successes of Palm. What does the newcomer? What are the strengths and weaknesses? A test brings clarity.

HP managers emphasize webOS is a really great, scalable operating system. By this they mean that the software is likely very different, even different sized devices to run. When former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, the principle at the launch of the first smartphones webOS in January 2009, said this sounded promising. Without much trouble could run webOS not limited to cell phones, but also on notebooks, tablets, perhaps even on set-top boxes.

Two years later it is smarter. The development of tablet version has lasted up to June 2011, announced the PC version will be released before the end of the year. But HP‘s promise of huge revenues webOS. As the world’s largest PC manufacturer, the system could be marketed much better than it would ever able to Palm, is the calculus.