![]() We get the feeling that the TouchPad likes to be held in portrait, with the central button at the bottom, or rotated to the left. ![]() Tablets notionally have no up or down and although the TouchPad will happily auto-rotate (unless you tell it not to) there is definitely a top and bottom here. Around the sides you’ll find two speaker openings, a Micro-USB port, the volume rocker, standby button and 3.5mm headphone jack. There is a single “central” button beneath the display which also blinks at you when you have a notification and the aperture for the camera at the top (there in no camera on the rear). Of course, you always have to wipe down the screen on a tablet, but having to flip it over and do the same on the back soon gets boring.īut although the TouchPad is a little larger than some, it is rather minimalist in finish. We’ve been polishing and cleaning the thing almost constantly. HP have finished the TouchPad in glossy black plastic, so it is a real problem to keep clean. Until you get to the fingerprints that is. ![]() But the size doesn’t really worry us that much, as it is comfortable to hold and it looks smart enough. This makes it fairly substantial, like you are grasping a roof tile rather that the latest piece of tech. It’s relatively fat at 240 x 190 x 13.7mm and a hefty 740g. Setting out in examining the design of the HP TouchPad isn’t the strongest start. But will HP suffer at the hands of the iPad and the latest and greatest Android tablets? Design It picks up many of the nicer features of the Pre phones, including the Touchstone wireless charging option, and of course an operating system that offers the sort of experience that many would want on a tablet. For many, separating the HP TouchPad from it’s webOS Palm origins will be difficult.
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