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06/29/2011, 08:42 PM
#15
OK, so here are my thoughts after playing with the touchpad for a little over an hour. So you know, I have played a lot with both ipads, the playbook and with every android tablet out there except the transform. Also, despite really liking my old pre and webos, I love my rooted android evo, and it's as close to the perfect phone for me that I have ever had.
That said, with two BIG assumptions, I would put the Evo in second place, behind the ipad2 but in front of every android tablet I have played with and the playbook.
The assumptions: that the touchpad will have a competitive app catalog (including document creation and editing eventually) and that the very very poor Internet performance was an anomaly.
I was using my evo wireless teather in a big walmart, and so that may have been the problem. But, when I do get a tablet, I intend to often be using my phone as a teather when no wifi available. I have teathered a lot of devices with the Evo and have never had this bad of performance. IF this is how fast pages will load when using a phone for connection, this is a dealbreaker.
Other things that concerned me was the fact it took 10 min before it would work plugged in for a dead battery and the number of times it locked up and reset (but i really do think that was in large part to the demo software that wanted to run)
Much of the good-old "zen of palm" is present especially with the email app and the cards. The the calendar app looked very nice, but hope the is no three-month issue. Keyboard was nice for one finger typing but not for two thumbs. The music and videos were outstanding.
In all it is much better than the android tablets so far. I love android on my evo but it's just not there yet for tablets.
Why second to ipad2? Well size and weight matter to me. The TP weight difference really shows after holding it for a while. The ipad screen looks to me to be a bit sharper with webpage rendering and richer colors overall. The TP is not sluggish at all but the ipad2 is still quicker. I'm guessing the spec difference will show up at times.
And of course there are the Apps. I know, I know, I said I was assuming hp will get them, but i need to be able to do more with documents (and google docs not good enough). Apple has issues here as well, but it's been around enough that it's issues have been addressed for the most part. Unfair to some extent, but it would effect a purchase decision if I made it today.
On a side note, the walmart types knew nothing about the touchpad. Had no idea what it was or that they were even carrying them. They had never even seen the demo unit and were not sure who put it in the cabinet.
The demo unit was in a cabinet under the empty display space. I had one of them open the cabinet and they let me play away. One associate told me they had two regular non-demo units in stock and was willing to sell me one. No telling if the computer would have accepted the sale.
Despite being, in my mind, behind the ipad2, I may still decide to get one if my son decides to get a mi-if card at best buy since, with the $100 bb discount for the card plus the $50 "make things right " rebate that would bring the 32gig model to $449!
Sent from my Evo - so there!
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