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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
How does WebOS work for you?
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About as expected.
Quite similar to BlackBerry PlayBook.
HP is using the bezel as well, though a bit more limited.
On both you don't need any physical or capacitive buttons - I really like that (always was sceptical about the "home" button on iPad, whether it actually will "survive" 1 or 2 years of heavy usage).
Both tablets awesomely demonstrate, what a tablet should be about.
I'm not so fond of the 4:3 ratio of HP's TouchPad (almost identical to iPad). I find 16:9, as on PlayBook or Xoom, more convenient to hold and even more pleasing to the eye (a paper book has a similar format, so do movies on landscape/widescreen).
What I don't like:
Most apps still are based on phones = way smaller.
On iPad at least you can double the size, although it's pixelated then.
Or you can jailbreak and optimise it.
On Android I simply install "Spareparts" from the Android market and change the setting to "full scale".
For HP's TouchPad, so far I haven't found any solution.
2 games from Gameloft zoom automatically, but "settlers" of course is way more appealing in HD on iPad.
Most apps simply rest in the middle of the screen (as on iPad without doubling), occupying less than 25% of the screen.
And what I didn't know (my fault, should have read the specs): It doesn't have GPS. For the existing maps, WiFi is good enough for roughly calculating your position.
But I would have hoped for apps such as Navigon...
PlayBook, Iconia, Eee Pad Transformer for example have GPS, although they don't have 3G (in the models I'm using).