At final, a webOS-empowered TouchPad, HP’s answer to a flourishing inscription marketplace. And have no inapplicable designation, it’s entrance in with guns on fire — specs-wise, a line-up stands up flattering good to a foe now in play (e.g. iPad) as well as a alternative up-and-comers not utterly out a embankment (e.g. Motorola Xoom as well as BlackBerry PlayBook). Stacked side-by-side, it’s transparent Apple’s entrance is not in the bit in both memory (256MB vs. 1GB for everybody else) as well as front-facing camera — not which we design which to be a box for all of 2011. When it all comes down to it, what’ll set these slates detached will be a platforms as well as program themselves — should have for an engaging summer, no? In a meantime, for a nitty-gritty upon technical specifications, try past a mangle.

 HP
TouchPad

 Apple
iPad

 Motorola
Xoom

 BlackBerry PlayBook

Platform webOS 3.0 iOS 4.2.1 Android 3.0 BB Tablet OS (QNX) 

Processor 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon
dual-CPU APQ8060 1GHz Apple A4, PowerVR SGX 535 GPU 1GHz NVIDIA
Tegra 2 1GHz Cortex-A9 dual-core 

Display 9.7-inch 9.7-inch
LED-backlit
IPS LCD 10.1-inch 7-inch LCD 

Resolution 1024 x 768 1024 x 768 1280 x 800 1024 x 600 

Memory 1GB RAM 256MB DRAM 1GB DDR2 RAM 1GB RAM 

Storage 16GB / 32GB 16GB / 32GB / 64GB 32GB 16GB / 32GB / 64GB 

Front camera 1.3 megapixel none 2 megapixel 3 megapixel 

Rear camera none none 5 megapixel with
4x digital wizz, AF, dual-LED peep,
720p 30fps video 5 megapixel,
720p video 

Cellular radio ”3G as well as 4G variants” UMTS / HSDPA /
GSM / EDGE EVDO Rev. A 3G as well as 4G 

WiFi 802.11b/g/n 802.11a/b/g/n 802.11b/g/n 802.11a/b/g/n 

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR 2.1 + EDR 2.1 + EDR 2.1 + EDR 

Gyroscope Yes No Yes – 

Accelerometer Yes 3-axis 3-axis Yes 

Battery capacity 6,300 mAh 6,600 mAH (approx.) – 5,300 mAH 

Weight 740g 680g (WiFI),
730g (WiFi + 3G) 730g 400g 

Via Engadget