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Gotta face it: All the reviews are essentially agreeing (and they're all pretty much saying the same thing I thought after my time with it).
Its thickness and weight **are** big issues.
It hangs, stutters and crashes.
It can't play video very well.
Its camera is presently useful only for Skype, and it does that very badly.
There is a serious dearth of apps, especially those that take advantage of the full screen. As anyone who's ever tried to use an iPhone app on an iPad knows, they're substantially worse in the middle of a huge screen -- to the point of unusability on a great number of them, especially games.
This version of WebOS has potential pretty good to all-around great, but it's clearly not up to full-release quality.
So it has neither the attractive price of the heavier Android tablets, nor the high-end features of the iPad or Galaxy 10.1, which share the same premium price tag.
Not good news. HP has the resources to fix these things, and let's hope they take the amazingly consistent reviews to heart and try to get a competitive Touchpad 2 into stores before the end of the year. But judging by how incredibly long it's taken them to get this round of products out, I'm certain they won't pull anything off like Samsung just did in redesigning the Galaxy flagship in a heartbeat (and doing it extremely well, BTW).
But it's clear the original Touchpad is destined to be a real dog.
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