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HP TouchPad: Everything you want to know

Summary: Tips and tricks, apps and accessories: Here's everything new Touchpad owners need in one place.

James Kendrick

By for Mobile News |

It is hard to believe the HP TouchPad has only been around for a few weeks given the checkered past it has already lived. It went from also-ran to the top seller on Amazon in days, and according to some estimates has sold hundreds of thousands of units in the last week. Based on the correspondence I am receiving from new TouchPad owners I believe those figures may be accurate.

Many of these new TouchPad owners are craving for information about their new tablet, and many questions I am spending hours each day answering are in fact answered in articles I wrote before the bizarre scenario played out. It seems like a good idea to gather all of my articles about the HP TouchPad together in one place for easy reference.

One reason that early reviews of the TouchPad routinely panned the device for poor performance out of the box was due to the way webOS handles the initial Synergy syncing. Synergy brings together all of the user's social networks, email and contacts from all over the web so the TouchPad can do useful things with them. Unfortunately, this initial syncing in the background can take a day or two if enough accounts are configured, and there is nothing that can be done about the performance hits while the syncing is taking place. Once the syncing completes the performance becomes pretty good, so let it happen and expect possible lagginess in execution for the first day or so. Things get much better after that.

Tips and tricks and general coverage for the HP TouchPad

How to improve the performance of your new HP TouchPad New HP TouchPad owners go get your free 50GB of lifetime cloud storage HP TouchPad owners: get 6 free apps from HP for a limited time HP TouchPad: HP and Best Buy to refund price differences for early buyers HP TouchPad as portable blogging machine Overclocking the HP TouchPad cranks up the speed HP TouchPad: Still better than Honeycomb 5 Tablets for back to school The HP TouchPad homebrew community is already alive and well HP TouchPad: Hands-on impressions

Good apps for the HP TouchPad

10 apps for your new HP TouchPad 5 more apps for your new HP TouchPad What the HP TouchPad needs is an Android Player HP TouchPad as portable blogging machine HP TouchPad: Kindle app review Glimpse for HP TouchPad: Multi-tasking within a single app Cool apps for the HP TouchPad with screenshots Top 5 free apps for the HP TouchPad; Easter eggs bonus

Accessories for the HP TouchPad

Review: iPad Travel Express bag fits the TouchPad and Galaxy Tab Arkon Portable Tablet Stand for iPad, Honeycomb, TouchPad, and eReaders HP TouchPad: Waterfield Designs sleeve case review HP TouchPad Case review: Thin and light Freedom Pro Bluetooth keyboard: Good for use with any tablet

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  • RE: Everything you want to know about the HP TouchPad: news, reviews

    Thank you very much for putting up this blog. I happily bookmarked it for reference. Thanks a ton James.
    Ram U
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  • RE: Everything you want to know about the HP TouchPad: news, reviews

    Great, but I still can't find one for $99...
    Hasam1991
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  • I'm Sick of Apple

    The real reason of the bad reviews is Apple and how tech people are so in love with apple these days and they have such a false sense of how good apple is, everything else fails in comparison. Before this I saw only one fair Touchpad review now that hundreds of thousands have sold I'm sure I will see more positive reviews.

    Tech people have to take off the blinders and realize that there are good tech devices not put out by apple and that apple products have flaws sometimes really bad flaws
    DRFP
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  • RE: Everything you want to know about the HP TouchPad: news, reviews

    The best webOS app I have is pReader, which supports a variety of eBook formats, including DRM protected files. It's my most frequently used webOS app, and it's free!
    JohnGault@...
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  • $99 Bookend...

    Thanks to HP this nifty device (i.e. abandoned product) will make a nice bookend right beside my good old $99 Timex-Sinclair ZX-81.

    Hey HP - You Suck!
    jilindi@...
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  • HP and touchpad suck

    @jilindi: they don't call it the "bleeding edge" for nothing. If you don't have the platelets, don't go to fire sales without a turnout coat and a box of band-aids. So far it looks like the touchpad will live on in the gray market. If you were dumb enough to buy a computer from a wrist watch maker, my sympathy runs about as deep as a parking lot.
    ta1
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  • RE: Everything you want to know about the HP TouchPad: news, reviews

    Well don't get in rain if soon HP resurfaces the WebOS and give it another shot. Since this promotion made well aware to public that there is another alternative to ipad and andros.
    limanemin@...
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    TUNAHAN
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  • Re: Installing Android on the HP TouchPad

    zdnet, keep a look out soon for installing Gingerbread on HPTP!

    "A group of Android hackers, called the TouchDroid team, has announced that it will be porting Android 2.3 Gingerbread to the HP TouchPad. You can expect to see it in a matter of months. The HP TouchPad is a great buy, and with the developer community backing it now, it might turn out to be the best value-for-money tablet of all time!"
    skyoneder
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  • No More Free Apps

    Unfortunately ALL of these coupon codes have "reached their limit" so they can no longer be used.
    PrepaidWirelessGuy
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  • RE: Everything you want to know about the HP TouchPad: news, reviews

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    anyway BACK TO THE TOPIC /vent ...
    thanks for posting all of these snippets. Yep, I bought a touch pad at the firesale, using internal employee priviledges. My only regret so far was, as some other articles suggested, not getting more accessories. And it would really be nice if it had a real, java capable, grown up internet browser so I could use more of my work apps. Still waiting for indication of a GOOD result with Ice Cream or Gingerbread, and just call me "dual boot".
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