“HP unveiled its iPad clone, the TouchPad today,” Dan Frommer reports for The Business Insider. “It is NOT a significant threat to Apple’s iPad. We still expect Apple to dominate the tablet market for years to come.”

Why isn’t HP a threat?
• It’s not better than the iPad — especially the improved iPad 2 that is already in production
• No developer advantage
• No distribution advantage
• No price advantage (at least nothing that HP wanted to announce today)

Read more in the full article here.

Mithun Chandrasekhar reports for AnandTech, “The TouchPad is a 9.7″ (1024×768) tablet powered by the Qualcomm MSM8x60 SoC with a 1.2GHz dual-core Scorpion CPU, a 1.3MP webcam, 16 or 32GB storage, 1GB RAM and 802.11 b/g/n. The TouchPad weighs in at about 1.6 lbs and 13mm thick. The TouchPad WiFi-only version will be coming to US sometime this summer with 3G/4G versions and other markets to follow.”

HP also showed the “Veer,” a small 2.6″ (320×400) QWERTY slider powered by the Qualcomm MSM7230 800MHz single-core SoC, 5MP camera, 8GB storage, 512MB RAM, 802.11 b/g; due in spring 2011 and the “Pre 3,” a 3.6″ (480×800) QWERTY slider powered by the Qualcomm MSM8x55 1.4GHz single-core SoC, 5MP camera with LED flash with HD video recording (and a front facing camera), 8 or 16GB storage, 512MB RAM, 802.11 b/g/n; due in summer 2011.

Full article here.

Electronista reports, “HP at its webOS special event confirmed that it’s bringing webOS to full-size computers. The company didn’t have full details and showed only a rough mockup of its current all-in-one desktops and notebooks. The company also didn’t give a firm timeline for when this hardware would be ready.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Yawn on the fake iPad (especially without a price or shipping date, and, oh by the way: Trade dress infringement). Triple yawn on the phones. Bet Microsoft isn’t yawning over HP’s move bring webOS to desktops and laptops. It’s all slipping away for Microsoft.