HP TouchPad gets unofficial demo at Computex from SanDisk, SanDisk no longer friend of HP

By on Jun 1, 2011 at 9:58 PM
Tablets June 1, 2011

Are you waiting to get your hands on HP’s first webOS tablet, the TouchPad? We reported it would hit the shops and streets this month, but in the meantime you can feast your eyes on one of the first real demos of an HP TouchPad in the wild — from a SanDisk representative, no less. It all went down on Wednesday at Computex in Taipai, so hit the break to see all the card-based app switching and Synergy action you can handle.

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  • Tyler

    Cool, but looks a little buggy & lags 

    • sirpaul

      I noticed the same thing. It doesn’t seem very responsive. One thing I believe Apple and the PlayBook have managed extremely well is that snappy responsiveness when swiping and zooming. Lets hope the TouchPad doesn’t get released to market like this.

      • Anonymous

        not like anyone will buy it anyway

      • sirpaul

        It’s going the way of the xoom :P

      • http://twitter.com/jaytee1o4 jaytee1o4

        its funny seeing this and thinking a month ago that the playbook os was a rip off but now i cant picture using this style of os without the “bezel gestures” 

    • http://www.thetechtemple.com The Tech Temple

      They still have some time.  I like what I’m seeing thus far.  Still don’t need a tablet though, they’re just nice to ogle at. 

  • http://twitter.com/ravinders03 Ravinder Singh

    swipe up to close the app….copied from playbook…..copycats…..

    • http://twitter.com/UrbanEnigma Yves

      I hope you’re joking. Please be joking.

      • serpentor

        I don’t understand. Are you saying it’s not copied from webOS?

      • serpentor

        Oh, nevermind. I’m dyslexic.

      • Dgadget

        Some of your guys obviously don’t pay attention. The main attraction of WebOS is it was built to multitask. It’s the easiest and most efficient OS to do this on. RIM copied WebOS “cards” method and placed it in the Playbook

      • Anonymous

        Since I can’t unlike my comment, no Dgadget, WebOS/Linux cannot multitask like QNX, not realtime.

    • http://twitter.com/Aurash91 Aurash Ismail

      nah, they copied it from microsoft. windows phone mango has this same feature.

    • Vegito

      You’re incorrect.  WebOS always had swipe up to close, it is the playbook that’s the copycat.

      • guest

        The WebOS device FAILED MISERABLY when it came to market 2 years ago.

    • http://www.briefmobile.com Korey Nicholson

      Wow…no comment

    • http://twitter.com/manozz Gundruk

      LOL- I hope you are kidding!!

    • Guest

      Other way around…RIM copied it from Palm.

      • wet

        Palm FAILED as an independent company.

      • serpentor

        And how is that pertinent to the matter at hand?

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      Great trolling! I’m glad I could inspire such greatness!

    • Sadikk Shaikh

      Palm owns that.. Blackberry and others copied it from them..

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=608586418 David Crocker

        This is true, but Blackberry came to the market with a working tablet that does that…..so the average user (non tech) will believe that Blackberry had it first.

        Invention owners matter not, it’s who uses it first that wins. Smart on Blackberry’s part.

    • http://google.com/profiles/107420723354282321618 wushu2004

      why don’t you research your “findings” before you post yeah?

  • joethestone23

    Wow no one cares…

  • fr3dd0

    funny, the reflection clearly shows who it is…

  • Anonymous

    Dumbasses.

  • http://twitter.com/Aurash91 Aurash Ismail

    I dont get the headline, why is sandisk no longer a friend of HP?

    • Dale

      Dear Aurash,

      I have the same question…

      • anon

        Because SanDisk is showing of an HP product before HP had the chance.

  • Anonymous

    looks pretty lame

  • Anonymous

    that thing lags and looks fugly platsticky

  • Sadikk Shaikh

    HP is calling Sandisk and no one is picking phone.. GRRrrrrr

  • John Q Public

    Wow, this looks worthless. What a terrible and uninspiring demo.

  • Anonymous

    navigation should hopefully become smoother at release… I think RIM did WebOS style better than HP. Bezel gestures make the PB a far better experience in terms of multitasking.. at least it seems that way from this demo.

  • Superion

    I certainly hope that is some ancient build of WebOS tablet interface because if it comes to market in that state HP should just call it quits right now because that tablet looked as slow and unresponsive as the Android on X86 prototypes that Intel has over at their booth at Computex.

    Well at least RIM has nothing to worry about being displaced by HP in the tablet space as that looks really slow and sloppy performance wise compared to a Playbook.  The thing that impresses people about the Playbook is that it is so fluid and fast.  The TouchPad looks clunky, unintuitive and awkward to use by comparison.  But what can we expect from the mediocre hardware HP seems so fond of using for WebOS devices – or maybe they just continued with Palms failed plans and HPs only contribution was “lets add Beats Audio”.  Poor WebOS.  It looked nice but no one will ever care because it just can’t compete with whats on the market already from apple and RIM by the looks of it.

    Wonder if WebOS will manage to do better then MeeGo?  Cause right now it seems to be just as irrelevant to the market

  • Anonymous

    Wow, iPad anyone? HP is going to get the sh!t sued out of them by Apple, just like Samsung is now. Home button only? Front-facing cam at the top middle? Hell, look at the lock screen. And the top bar with clock and battery. Look at the icon tray at the bottom. Nice innovation, HP. Oh. Wait. I mean lack thereof.

    • Tegra2

      Apple doesn’t dare sue HP. Not while HP holds all of Palm’s patents.

  • http://twitter.com/palfrei Peter Palfrei

    This video is not what I expected.

    I’m a bit disappointed at the tablet. I wish for HP to have finished polishing WebOS by the time the tablet will have been launched but I don´t think they’ll make it in time.

  • user101

    Looks like crap. 

  • http://twitter.com/jaytee1o4 jaytee1o4

    impressive

  • Joshahs

    This looks like a Fail already. Cheap looking, laggy and unresponsive!
    BlackBerry PlayBook looks more expensive and it’s super responsive compare to that crap. I played around with the playbook it really works great and you can feel like you have a high quality product in your hands. and the camera pic and video are amazing on it by far better than any other tablets I tested.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=608586418 David Crocker

    It was a SanDisk rep, not an HP rep, using the product, so he didn’t quite know how to use it. Still love webOS.

  • Interested, but not biased.

    Really? I think it looks pretty slick. I always liked WebOS- never trusted the hardware from Palm.

    I think I’d look to buy it.

    Doesn’t seem to lag or be buggy. I mean, the user is demoing it, not exactly holding and swiping as a user would.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t quite look like final software yet =(

  • http://twitter.com/andreharry Andre Harry

    I wish WebOS wasn’t bought by HP.
    HP as a brand is just not cool… and no one ever mentions HP phones. LOL.
    NOKIA would be a better company to buy WebOS.

  • Anonymous

    This will have some appeal to geeky Apple Pan Boys, but having owned and used WebOS phones and before that Palm OS phones, I have to say that it’s a nice OS, but once you start using iOS you realize that WebOS just does not have an instinctive user interface: it does cool things, however the average non-geek will have too hard of a time figuring out how to do them. A tight integration between the WebOS pad and new WebOS phones could be a plus for folks who appreciate how the iOS ecosystem makes life so much easier, but don’t want Apple products. It’s going to be tough to market this new system’s advantages, if any. Right now pads are like jeans: everyone wants Levi’s, except for a few drugstore cowboys who insist on Wranglers (Android) because of peer pressure. HP has to learn a lot about creative consumer marketing to carve out its own niche, and that’s not something they’ve been good at (after all, despite all the tech hype, they’ve mostly been the world’s biggest seller of…ink). Having a good nostalgic feel for PalmOS I hope they make some inroads here, but it’s certainly an uphill battle.

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