Everyone must install Orb. It's basically like Air Video for iOS but better. You can stream your entire media collection on your computer (movies, music, pictures, even live cam and TV broadcast) to your Touchpad.
Unfortunately not. They have to be rewritten/patched to run doubled.Mine has frozen multiple times, sort of a PITA...
Is there an "app doubler" so the pre apps show up full screen on the TouchPad?
Mine gets gifted to GF's daughter today, am sort of glad, outside of a possible Android port, I sort of hate this thing.
Don't get me wrong, it's well worth $100, but I'll stick to an iPad.
I'm totally the opposite. I really like this tablet and WebOS. It's a shame it's discontinued but because of that I got to try out WebOS.
So no iPad 3 or Ice Cream tablet for me. I'm skipping the next round or two.
Hmm the battery life in this thing seems a lot worse than I originally thought. A day after I wrote the "my thoughts" post, the TouchPad dropped 8% (88% to 80%) battery life. My iPad? It dropped 0% (100% to 100%). Both devices have done nothing and have been sitting on top of my printer the entire time.
12 hours after that check, my TouchPad is down to 75% (5% drop) and my iPad is at 99% battery life.
I get random freezes, timeouts on the web, all kinds of bugs, for those who didn't get one, don't feel bad, there are quite a few reasons why HP dumped the thing.
Hmm the battery life in this thing seems a lot worse than I originally thought. A day after I wrote the "my thoughts" post, the TouchPad dropped 8% (88% to 80%) battery life. My iPad? It dropped 0% (100% to 100%). Both devices have done nothing and have been sitting on top of my printer the entire time.
It's worse with use, had Pandora running this morning, and it dropped me from 100% to 35% in just a couple of hours.
Also, the phone apps run in a tiny window, they're pretty irritating...
A lot of those issues are fixed with (quick) random patches and modifications.
At least with the AnandTech review, the battery life was mediocre even without any modifications. I think webOS just has problems staying asleep altogether.the only issue i seem to be having with mine right now, is it not going to sleep. screen will stay on and just drain battery since doing some of the preware stuff, might roll it back and see if my battery life comes back.
OS updated, patched and modded, stock, I was ready to slam it into a wall...
Could be bias against WebOS clouding your eyes.
Just like a computer, battery life drains while in standby.
And it's always in portrait. Gah.
Could be bias against WebOS clouding your eyes.
No, actually, if you'd do a search, you'd see I was waiting for a WebOS device for some time.
The TouchPad is half baked, and poorly done. WebOS is flipping horrible on this thing. I'd buy the argument that it's great for browsing the web, but it's laggy as hell even overclocked.
Apple reportedly spent 1000 hours on scrolling speed alone on iOS, it shows in how polished the OS is. Another year of development and refining, I think WebOS might be amazing, as it is, it's near useless for me, I want my stuff to at least work. I've done 4 hard resets so far.
Like I said, for $100, it's awesome, but I would have been seriously pissed to get one at full MSRP, and would have returned it.
No doubt HP rushed it out, but I've patched it up and added some of the scrolling patches and I haven't seen the issues you've mentioned. I've not had to do any resets on it at all and haven't seen any lockup issues.
I do agree that it was insane for HP to release is in its current state but fortunately, preware apps seem to have resolved most of the issues. I do hope a strong community develops and apps are plentiful in the future. I had planned on buying the Amazon tablet in the fall but I just couldn't pass this guy up. The iPad might be better but there is zero chance I'd pay more $500+ for a tablet.
No, actually, if you'd do a search, you'd see I was waiting for a WebOS device for some time. And I am a long time user of Android & iOS, always looking for something different and interesting.
The TouchPad is half baked, and poorly done. WebOS is flipping horrible on this thing. I'd buy the argument that it's great for browsing the web, but it's laggy as hell even overclocked.
Apple reportedly spent 1000 hours on scrolling speed alone on iOS, it shows in how polished the OS is. Another year of development and refining, I think WebOS might be amazing, as it is, it's near useless for me, I want my stuff to at least work. I've done 4 hard resets so far.
Like I said, for $100, it's awesome, but I would have been seriously pissed to get one at full MSRP, and would have returned it.
Also, the rumored Amazon Android tablet(s) will likely be pretty good, looks like a $299 starting price.
All of that combines for snappy performance that is nearly 99 percent of the time on par with the latest from Apple and Samsung. That 1% of the time? The TouchPad inexplicably stops for a few seconds. We were told by HP that the user interface (and the rest of webOS 3.0) still isnt fully GPU-accelerated, which could account for some of the slowdowns, but our suspicion is that there are still some optimizations to be made. Actually, we hope thats the case, because these multi-second (occasionally up to 10 seconds) can be especially frustrating. The OS does pay attention to whats going on during those freezes, so once it finally catches up all your taps and swipes during that time are applied in quick succession.
At least with the AnandTech review, the battery life was mediocre even without any modifications. I think webOS just has problems staying asleep altogether.