The HP TouchPad is here!
July 2nd, 2011, 7:31pm by JakeAfter more than @ years, the global business unit formerly known as Palm has finally released a new flagship device, which is in the words of Josh Topolsky, the first real challenger to the iPad. Genius, yet flawed. Almost like the Pre all over again, really. Listening to TIMN Podcast, their comments were spot on. Fun to use, even if I’m just scratching the surface so far. The same inexplicable sluggishness that plagues the Pre remains, only less so. Coming from the Pre this is no big deal, but I imagine iPad users would be perplexed. The keyboard is decent, at least acceptable thumb typing in portrait mode. Apps seem good- like this WordPress app is pretty sweet and easy to use. It can lots of thing!
- Bolding text
- Italicizing, underlining
- Although turning off text features seems to be downright buggy!
- Bullets.
So I finally got underlining turned off. More generally, stacks works pretty awesome. Nice to have a nearly full keyboard available, especially compared to iProducts. Notifications are simply stellar, and I can even make phone calls! The accessories arent here yet, so I wont rmable too much longer. Autocorrect seems way too passive for a touch keyboard. But I do hear a major update is coming to speed things up and hopefully actually ship the Kindle and movies app. Looking forward to getting the Touchstone dock (which is in auto correct) and keyboard, seems like that could work really well. Will have to spend a few more days to discover its capabilities let me know if there are any features you want me to test.
Another auto correct note, some seems silly. It wanted to replace sre with Pre instead of are even though the p is nowhere near the s. Not sure if thats a special case or if HP is ignoring key location with their auto correct. I do Mike (auto corrected from oike) that it keeps a running tally of the autocorrected words. This review is very meta and now even more so.
Dang getting an error trying to post. Will have to sort that.
Addendum: so I never could get it to post from the TouchPad, doesn’t even show up in drafts. Ended up copying & pasting and sending an email (another story), then recreating some of the formatting here. Noticed Mike has an iPad test post in draft status too, wonder if that’s related? I’ll give it a go on another blog, and if that doesn’t sort it, wait for a WordPress update.
July 2nd, 2011 at 7:53 pm
I just tried out work press for iPad. At most, you can say it works. Anyway, glad you like the Touchpad. I have a lot more fun with my iPad than I thought I would. None of it is necessary, but it sure is fun to use.
July 3rd, 2011 at 7:56 am
I’m sure you’ll love it, more so as you get used to typing on it. For the WP app, is itconfigured correctly with the site’s XML-RPC info? I think that the WP app is pretty bad for iOS, I use an app called Blogsy for posting from the iPad.
How is photo handling in the native webOS, and how are the photo apps, which I’m sure us something you want to use a lot? Does it have a built-in SD card reader?
July 3rd, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I just gave it the general url, pyslent.com, and logged in from there. But maybe it never accepted my credentials? Never got an error upon log in. Will investigimate.
July 4th, 2011 at 3:24 am
That’s all it took to set up Word Press for iOS and Android. Note that Comments have never been supported, but that doesn’t trip up anything else as far as I can tell.
July 4th, 2011 at 7:45 am
Yeah, the WP app, like most blogging apps, is designed for posting and managing some aspects of the site (versus reading or commenting) — they figure posting and admin require a site login and more complicated functionality, while commenting is fine from the main page of the site.
Did you ever get it to work at another WP blog?
July 4th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Worked my on my other WP blog– maybe it’s because I’d don’t have full site privileges? I had to flip a switch here: http://core4you.org/wp-admin/options-writing.php to allow it to work, but I imagine that’s see if you & Kelvin are able to use blogging clients.
July 4th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
I think the “switch” you’re talking about is the XML-RPC permissions that I referred to above, which like you said, is turned on and lets me use a variety of blogging clients (Blogsy on iPad, MarsEdit on Mac). Not sure which blogging software (if any) Kelvin is using these days, but you and he have the same site permissions, so that shouldn’t be it, either.
Maybe just try again a time or two?
July 4th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
You’re starting to sound like HP tech support! š