HP TouchPad confirmed to launch in June

By on Mar 14, 2011 at 7:33 PM
Tablets March 14, 2011

We exclusively reported that the HP TouchPad, the company’s first webOS tablet, would ship in June, and HP’s CEO has gone on record stating that. Leo Apotheker, earlier today, offered up the release date at the enterprise-focused HP Summit in San Francisco. He also went on to detail that the webOS PC initiative would launch in beta, and run in a web browser “later this year.”

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  • http://twitter.com/tsaunders tsaunders

    Can’t wait for the TouchPad

  • http://osxdaily.com Will

    *crickets*

  • heyhey

    totally getting this…without a doubt

  • Anonymous

    That is of interest to about 10 people.

  • Sam

    too late …..

    • heyhey

      it’s ok…i used to think that way but now i am glad HP is taking its time to release a fully baked product. besides, the touchpad will have no competition but ipad 2, and that’s it. off course there will be toshiba 10 inch, dell 10 inch, samsung 10 inch, htc 10 inch but all of those have the same major problem: honeycomb. all those tablets are going to be irrelevant! they will try to lure the gullible and the geek with the specs and the price cuts byt make no mistake, they’ll sit on the shelves and then disappear, just like the galaxy tab and xoom. make no mistake, samsung will come up with a “galaxy smart cover” and htc will come up with “htc touchstone”….but these wont work as well as the smart cover or webos touchstone…and android shall continue its path of aimlessness and mediocrity. windows phone 7 and webos will implement GPU/hardware accel way before android. mark my words!!! android is a fail from the grounds up. they hired duarte to make android better but it wont work because the whole OS is made by geeks with a geeky mentality. u cannot patch that crap with a few graphic ui effects…..they tried with gingerbread and failed. android’s days depend on how long it takes HP and MS to get their act together. once the touchpads roll in and once MS releases a tablet with full office suit, that’s it: game over for android and all the geeks will commit mass suicide..

      right now, HP needs to accomplish two tasks:
      make sure the touchpad has some degree of office-like capability when it comes to processing and editing word documents and viewing PPT.
      make sure there’s a small number of decent apps; they dont have to have plenty of decent apps. just a few would suffice.

      i am very excited about the touchpad. i just totally dig touchstone and touch to share and the one true multitasking capability.

  • Anonymous

    I’m One of Ten! LOL!

    I do have to admit though, as much as I want one of these; HP is just taking WAY too much time getting it out!

  • Sean76

    Yay….another Tablet! Not needed

  • Anonymous

    Getting the new iPhone this june and the TouchPad. It’s gonna be one awesome summer!

  • Anonymous

    Finally Apple ipad will have a real competitor. Along with being a Apple fanboy like you kids like to say. I love web os. Depending on the price I will get one. I only to mess around on. The ipad will still be main business tablet.

  • TM

    The best thing about the touchpad is the ability to answer texts and phone calls while paired witht the Pre3. This is a great feature the is unavailable at the moment from any competitor. If android came out with this, I would stay with my Droid X or newer top end Droid

    • heyhey

      dont worry; android will come out with this…. it’s just gonna be beta forever, like everything else. android tabs will get smart covers, wireless charging, touch to share, and phone tablet sync but it’s all gonna be rushed, half-assed, geeked, and in beta.

      • Anonymous

        What does android have to do with a Hewlett Packed Touchpad running Web os? I swear people just come here to comment and that’s it.

  • http://twitter.com/vijeesh_vj VJ

    great news ! waiting for that …..

  • Anonymous

    By the time this things launches Apple will have sold 10 million iPad two’s. Motorola will have shipped their 100,000 Xoom and RIM will have canceled their Playbook.

    Come on HP, just get the thing shipped already.

    • Anonymous

      I think the BB playbook will do quite well in the business sector and of course the crackberry crowd. The touchpad does look pretty sweet though. Pre3 and the Touchpad both take webOS to the next level.

  • @j_nathaniel

    …and most of us will read the reviews of it on our iPad.

  • Phed_Up

    Great idea….wait until everyone that wants a tablet already has purchased a MaxiPad, or an OVERPRICED Android tablet….THEN release your device…

    yeesh, talk about a gang of fools!

    Android tablets – first they were undersized and the same price, or “under” everything (non capacitive screens, or sub Froyo OS, etc), now they are same, or larger size, half baked OS, and COST MORE!

    WebOS – nothing to say but…LATE, LATE, LATE

    RIM – Seriously? How bout we beat a dead horse just a little bit more?

    Microsoft – Has the $, has the staff, has the marketing ability….hasn’t used ANY of those capabilities in like….8 years or so? Windows 7 is THE BOMB……that blew up everything else @ MS other than Kinect! Jeesh, can we get Bill to pull a SJ and come back and make MS into a juggernaut again? If for not other reason but to SHUT CrApple up?

    What are companies paying these marketing, and business management morons?

    I mean seriously, if you want to compete with CrApple, you had better bring your A-Game, cause first you have to deal with the FUD, and then the RDF, and then the Fanaticism, and after you wade through all of that, you actually have to have a product that WORKS, and looks POLISHED!

    Otherwise, stay out of the contest, and clap for the guys that actually did their homework before getting in the game!

    Yep, collection of fools!

    Yeesh….it is downright depressing, that is all I can say! I wish every day for SOMEONE, ANYONE, to release SOMETHING to shut CrApple fanatics up….but noooooo, disappointment reigns supreme!

    Morons!

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