HP Unveils TouchPad, Enters the Market of Tablets

From X-bit Labs: Palm division of Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled the company's first PC in tablet form-factor. The company emphasizes that its TouchPad slate is not only a media tablet, but a device ready to run with productivity applications and actually make some work. The system runs a new version of Palm's webOS and has pretty powerful hardware inside.

HP TouchPad is based on Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 system-on-chip clocked at 1.20GHz that has two Scorpion application processing cores (ARM v7 instruction set, similar to Cortex-A8 design, but has significantly improved performance of SIMD operations), Adreno 220 graphics processing core, memory controller and so on. The device comes with 9.7" multi-touch screen with 1024*768 resolution, 1GB of random access memory, 16GB or 32GB of flash storage, front-facing 1.3MP webcam, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n controller, 3G or 4G module, Bluetooth support and so on. The TouchPad has 6300mAh battery and weighs 740 grams.

"With the APQ 8060 and Adreno 220 GPU, the HP TouchPad delivers a high-performing and fluid multitasking user interface, as well as offers game and multimedia application developers a high-performance environment for their applications,” said Jon Oakes, director of TouchPad product marketing at HP.

But the HP TouchPad is more than just a powerful multimedia tablet, the company stresses. Thanks tailor-made webOS 3.0 operating system, the device can offer rather unique business features. For example, once paired with a compatible phone, the tablet can be used to answer phone calls and SMS messages. HP is working with Quickoffice to include the Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite, which allows to view and edit documents, such as Microsoft Word and Excel. It also comes with VPN support to connect to corporate networks. With the HP Synergy feature, one only needs to sign in to a Facebook, Google, Microsoft Exchange, LinkedIn and Yahoo! accounts and the contacts, calendar and email automatically populate the TouchPad.

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