Who Loves Palm Will be Like this Tablet

PC market leader HP wants his place in dispute to make Apple tablet computer touch pad to the show, competition how to do it right, with the handle computers. The Matthias Kremp was one of the first anti-iPads of HP on the edge of the film festival in Cannes. HP is late, very late, even later as Research in Motion. Ironically, the largest computer manufacturer in the world – every second somewhere in the world would two HP computers shipped on – is lagging behind in the booming flat-computers, the Tablet PC. But that will soon change. With the touch pad, a somewhat misleading designated Tabet PC, the company plans to soon market share decline of competition. We have the opportunity to one of the first units before sales start in the inspection to take a long time.

At first glance, the HP Tablet is hardly distinguishable from competing models: It is similar to flat as the iPad has an exactly same big screen, with the same resolution as the Apple Tablet. And it is black, completely black. Exactly what is handed to the designers not just for the glory, even if it sensuous, is because so well rounded. In addition, the shiny black plastic but feels nice in warm, acts on dirt but as attractive as a glass of beer on slugs. After a few minutes, one may use the back hardly related, so it is dotted by fingerprints. A cleaning cloth is than with the tablet.

This penalty is forgotten but once again, if you use the touchpad. In many ways, the device is something like a huge Palm phone – only that you can not call it. Several features and characteristics of the system is generally not recognized immediately, if you actually have a longer period of time used by Palms webOS phones. The effect is comparable with the eye-opening experience, have the iPhone users, if they play around for the first time with a iPad: “Oh, that’s just so”.

Know-How of Palm

This eye-opening effect, however, HP has bought too expensive. Just over a year, the company took care of plenty of attention when it threw its plans for Windows-based tablets to the winds and instead took over the struggling mobile phone maker Palm for $ 1.2 billion. As one of despair will not know interpreted. Instead, HP executive to explain now that they had “a great company given the opportunity to make even better products.”

However one may interpret the now, the purchase was worth it. Because with Palm HP got not only many in the field of smart phones and touch screens experienced developers, but also Palms webOS, that had developed operating system that programmers Palms just fresh. Its version 3.0, which is now running on the prototype of HP Tablet checked, still in some corners, not everything works right away, but it clearly shows that it is still possible to develop alternatives to Apple‘s and Google‘s Android Os.

A system with aha

Above all, the integration of different email providers and social networks into unified applications as webOS strength is mentioned. The way this data and information sets, is unprecedented and gives frequent users of e-mail, Facebook and Twitter, a good overview of what drives their social environment now.

Also of note is the possibility of processes that belong together virtually to staple together by stacking them by pointing a finger over each other. So you want to copy an e-mail, will answer you, detach from the mail app, a Web page from the get data for his answer, put together his schedule, and the reply e-mail to a stack. Between the different parts of this cluster of information you can now switch back and forth without losing the overview. It operates effectively in a virtual workbook to which you add new pages at any time or from which you can remove pages. Chapeau!

Wireless self-knowledge

Another highlight that one wishes for a long time for Tablets, is the variable via keyboard shortcut. Pressing a button on a particular key and you can change the size of the virtual keyboard. Pressing another button and it changes the entire keyboard layout – good if you frequently between English and German keyboard layout has to change.

Exciting is also what HP has in store for the wireless Palm-charging devices, the Touch Stones. Depending on how you define its Touchstone Tablet, the right place at the respective app start automatically. In the bedroom that would be such as an alarm clock app, in the living room, a news app and in the kitchen recipes app. Free, there is unfortunately no such luxury, because Touchstone chargers are not well supplied by HP, but must be purchased at extra cost.

A competitive price

HP‘s software offerings to its managers are now proud and expect rapid growth. It lasted only a few days, the popular “Angry Birds” adapted for webOS. In addition, Cannes cookbook apps, movies apps and a new app from the movie studio Warner Brothers were shown. The latter is basically nothing more than a webOS version of the Blu-ray version of “Clockwork Orange”, that classic by Stanley Kubrick, who has just been reissued.

Special care shall be at HP, however, that the touch pad not only for end users, but also for the business area is suitable. So will the devices such as with SAP applications can be equipped and are no better for use in the field or storage. In this area, competition did not muster against the touchpad, though just here waiting for a huge market, we believe in HP.

However, it is now the first to conquer – and this is difficult. For while an entire armada of Android tablets to storm Apple iPad statement refers, HP still can not have any specific launch date for its flat computer name. Sometime in the summer it will be ready. And a prize may not be called yet, reveals only that he would “at the offer from the competition” oriented. One could also say HP‘s touchpad will cost as much as the iPad, and most of androids with comparable equipment. Of cheap offers has apparently is not much for HP.

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