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Holiday Gift Guides; the $99 HP TouchPad, redux; Wi-Fi or 3G iPad? (week in review)

Holiday Gift Guides; the $99 HP TouchPad, redux; Wi-Fi or 3G iPad? (week in review)

by ben patterson | Dec 10, 2011 | week in review

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and we’ve got a bevy of gift ideas for you, ranging from gadgets for grandparents and no-contract phones to iPhone accessories and gear for around the house. Also this week: How to create a “smart” Photo...
5 reasons why the $99 HP TouchPad isn’t necessarily a bargain

5 reasons why the $99 HP TouchPad isn’t necessarily a bargain

by ben patterson | Dec 8, 2011 | news, tablets

Yes, it looks like Hewlett-Packard is getting ready for a final fire sale of the TouchPad, the WebOS-powered tablet that the legendary computer manufacturer killed off last summer after just a month on the market. That’s the word from TechCrunch, which claims...
HP kills off HP TouchPad tablet, leaves mobile WebOS platform in the lurch

HP kills off HP TouchPad tablet, leaves mobile WebOS platform in the lurch

by ben patterson | Aug 18, 2011 | news, phones, tablets

One word: Wow. Barely a month and a half after launching the TouchPad tablet, HP shocked the tech world Thursday by abruptly announcing (as reported by All Things Digital) that it will discontinue its iPad competitor—and not only that, it will also stop making any and...
Number of iPad apps in App Store: 100,000 and counting

Number of iPad apps in App Store: 100,000 and counting

by ben patterson | Jun 30, 2011 | apps, news, tablets

If you were looking for a reason to pick the iPad as your tablet of choice rather than, say, an Android-powered tablet or the new HP TouchPad, here’s a number to consider: 100,000. That’s the number of iPad apps currently available for download, as duly...
HP kills off HP TouchPad tablet, leaves mobile WebOS platform in the lurch

Early reviews of HP’s TouchPad tablet: A “world of potential,” but “no match for the iPad”

by ben patterson | Jun 29, 2011 | news, tablets

The first reviews of HP’s iPad competitor, the TouchPad (starting at $499 for the 16 GB version, on sale July 1), are just hitting the web, and they’re profoundly mixed. On the one hand, reviewers seem enamored of the TouchPad’s WebOS software, which...
HP kills off HP TouchPad tablet, leaves mobile WebOS platform in the lurch

HP’s iPad competitor, the TouchPad, slated to hit stores July 1

by ben patterson | Jun 9, 2011 | news, tablets

Remember Palm? The legendary mobile company built one of the original, pre-iPhone smartphones, the Treo, and made some serious waves a couple years back with its gorgeous but slow-selling Palm Pre. Well, Palm is no more—it got gobbled up by Hewlett-Packard last...

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