Get yourself a paper HP touchpad since you missed out on getting a real one. This one is going for a whopping 70k. 100% sure the person who bid this price won’t be paying for the item but does show that this is officially a craze for an extinct device.
Yesterday Apple released iCloud beta. But as expected it is only supported by Mac OS Lion and iOS5.
A 2 year contract with Verizon (20 bucks a month) + 600 dollars will buy you a Motorola Xoom. Probably the first real competitor to the iPad. Apple’s 3g iPad runs at 629 with no contract requirement. Data plans at 30 bucks a month. New pricing model may be in store as the iPad 2 annoucement will come in March.
Bloomberg reported yesterday that Blackberry playbook and phones will run Android Apps. This is a huge move by RIM, since their app store is lackluster and Google Android Marketplace is growing massively. There will be a google launcher to use the Apps.. possible a Java VM. Chalk up another win for Google.
So we have the Apple iPad, and we’ve seen what the new Android 3.0 OS can do on the Mircosoft Xoom. Now we have HP Touchpad out running the latest version of Web OS. As the original release of Web OS, the interface is very fluid and highly comparable to iOS. Will HP be able to make WebOS into a winner? Something Palm lacked doing? Along with the HP touchpad, they also released Pre 3, and a smaller version of the WebOS phone. Rumor has it the HP TouchPad will go for 699. Apple 16 GB version is looking like a rockstar right now.