“HP unveiled its new webOS-powered TouchPad tablet to the Australian media [yesterday] morning, and it was met with a resounding “meh,'” Adam Turner reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.
“Anthony McMahon, vice president of HP webOS, took to the stage to sell the TouchPad’s virtues – but what we saw was yet another also-ran,” Turner reports. “The TouchPad has a Snapdragon dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB of RAM under the bonnet, but you wouldn’t know it based on the sluggish hands-on performance… The TouchPad’s menus are slow to rotate, it’s sometimes slow to respond to touches and the browsing experience falls short of Mobile Safari and the Honeycomb browser.”
“McMahon kept throwing around the word ‘unique’ but could offer very little to back it up. Things didn’t turn ugly, but McMahon copped a few brutally honest questions such as a straight out ‘why would I buy one?'” Turner reports. “‘The way you interact with the device is unique,’ we were told, although we didn’t see anything ground-breaking.”
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Turner reports, “It’s hard to find a reason to get excited about the TouchPad… With no killer feature to capture the imagination, HP’s TouchPad will have a tough job winning people away from the competition.”
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