HP TouchPad goes on sale in crowded market

Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet went on sale in U.S. stores Friday. It attracted less fanfare than the launch of Apple's iPad however has drawn some interest from those seeking an alternative to this year's raft of for the most part undifferentiated Android-based products.

The TouchPad enters a market dominated

The TouchPad enters a market dominated by Apple's iPad, and which as well includes Technology In Motion's Playbook and a panoply of Android tablets from numerous vendors. The iPad accounted for 74 percent of the 6 million tablets that were sold in the first quarter, Canalys Technology said in a study last month. Most of the rest were devices based on Google's Android OS, just as the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The TouchPad could fill a gap left open by all those Android-based tablets, which share similar features and have as a general rule been met cooly by clients, said Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst at Forrester Technology.

The TouchPad apart from rivals

HP has highlighted several features that it hopes will set the TouchPad apart from rivals, including wireless charging, touch-based document sharing, and tight integration of Twitter and Facebook capabilities. It as well supports Adobe Flash, unlike the iPad however the same as most Android tablets.

It as well expands the ecosystem for webOS, which is already in some smartphones and will go into printers and PCs hereafter. That's been a big part of HP's selling point: It promises that webOS devices will be tightly integrated to enable easy sharing of documents, contacts and other data.

Several TouchPad buyers interviewed Friday were either gadget enthusiasts or developers, and already owned iPad or Android devices. They were curious to see how webOS would perform, and some were looking for an alternative to the status quo.

"Every new tablet that's released is automatically compared to the iPad," Liles said. "There can't be a better iPad. That doesn't mean that Android or HP can't carve out a space where they to tell the truth deliver better products."

Few Android devices to boot to an original iPad

He already has a few Android devices to boot to an original iPad. He expects to use the TouchPad for application development, browsing the Web and as an entertainment device for his kids.

Other buyers were happy owners of Palm devices just as the Pre and Pixi smartphones, and see the TouchPad as a companion device. Brent Woodruff, a computer engineer in Tallahassee, Florida, is happy to see an alternative to all the Android-based products.

Bernstein owns four Pre's, a Pixi, an iPad and an iPhone, and expects to use his TouchPad for business. His first impression of the device was very favorable, he said, however he would like it to in the end get a better browser.

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