Touching the HP TouchPad

"It tips the scales at 1.6 pounds and measures 13.7mm thick, which is somewhat of a downer for those already put off by the heft found in Apple's slate. As we'd heard last month, HP's shipping this one with its own Beats audio engine, Touch-to-Share (a feature that lets users easily transfer a website, document, song, text or call from the phone to the tablet -- or vice versa -- simply by tapping the two devices together) and a huge reliance on the cloud."

It is taking some time, but efforts to challenge the iOS empire is shaping up.  While there are more Android tablets out there than Justin Beiber fans, few have seen any traction.  Enter HP's first real attempt at the slate tablet, powered by webOS.  The claims made by HP make it sound like it might just be able to replace your computer, desktop, notebook or otherwise, for all your regular day to day consumerish needs.  It even has a few features like support for some office applications for can probably do some work if one is so inclined.  The video looks delightfuly yummy as well.  All I can say is that it is nice to see some competition and decent alternatives come about.  It should help encourage even better stuff down the road.