Windows 7 X86 HP Announces The TouchPad

by John Biggs on February 9, 2011
Tags: HP, palm, Tablets, touchpad,Office Professional Plus 2010 32 Bit, WebOS
It’s official. Palm’s new WebOS device is called the Touchpad. It has a 9.7-inch screen, front 1.3-megapixel camera, and comes in 16 or 32GB models. It runs a 1.2GHz Snapdragon Processor processor and the screen resolution is 1024×768.
Designed by the “hundreds of talented programmers” on the WebOS team,Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit, the TouchPad is HP’s second slate of the new decade, the first being the HP Slate 500.
UPDATE – The Product Page for the TouchPad is now live.

The TouchPad is Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein’s baby. WebOS suffered from a massive downturn when the company was sold a mere nine months ago and all of the hard work the Palm team put into it seemed for naught. However, the TouchPad points to a new direction for Palm and the WebOS’ unique “card” interface seems perfectly suited for a slate form factor.
The device supports multi-tasking and Flash. It comes with Quickoffice and supports Google Docs, Dropbox, and Box.net for cloud file storage as well as HP Wireless Printer support. It also uses Skype for video calls.
A brief spec list:
Dual core, 1.2 Ghz Snapdragon processor
802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR,
Gyro/Accelerometer,Windows 7 X86, Compass
nine.7, 1024×768 display, 1.3 megapixel webcam, supports video calling
1.6 pounds,Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Key, 13.7 mm thick
Note that is is almost exactly the same size as the current iPad,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Key, for comparison’s sake. The device runs all of the standard WebOS PIM applications including Palm’s excellent mail app. It also supports Flash out of the box, so all of your favorite websites (that use Flash) will work seamlessly.
Product Page