Finally, the webOS on the big screen - or larger anyway. The TouchPad is the first HP device running WebOS 3.0, a compressed version of mobile operating system using the little we have come to love over the years. If you are familiar with earlier versions of pre-or perhaps a Veer you will be very comfortable here, because in principle has not changed much, especially when it comes to our favorite part of the operating system: multitasking.
Or press the Start button, physical or pass just above the bottom of the screen and get the card view webOS patented, which has often been imitated but never duplicated enough. Each application gets its own card and, if the program to generate a new window (a new instance of the browser, for example, or a new e-mail) that binds to an additional card from the stack. Then you can shuffle through the cards at any given lot, drag, or who simply film the top of the screen to send the garbage collector great in heaven.
As usual, browsing through the applications of this type is really fun, there's something very satisfying about literally throwing a window that does not want to clutter up your screen or RAM. And it's all helped by the entire operating system is generally fast and responsive - even if the applications themselves from time to time, not less so. Cycling through the programs running and sliding around is faster, but less experience gesture heavier than the previous versions of the phone.
HP TouchPad applications
In fact, you'll really only be using gestures to switch between tasks. The gesture area (the point on the bezel below the screen on mobile WebOS) is no longer for things like going back and forth in your browser. You have to use the buttons on the menu bar at the top of the window for that sort of thing, which is a bit pedestrian and boring. You can still get the movie to view the card, or tap the start button once to twice to open the Launcher.
The feature just type in that "just type" to search for contacts or documents, has not been adjusted significantly, allowing you to start pecking at the keyboard to search for contacts or enter the Internet URLs. It feels less immediate from the first need to make the campaign "Type" of the screen - unless you stop an optional keyboard - but still useful.
Other settings include notifications that appear in a top status bar. You will see an alert if they get a flood of new emails, and you can browse before touching to see it on a dedicated application. You can also get quick access to alternate different antennas of the device and of course get the time and battery life remaining. There is a lock screen orientation here, but we were hoping for a physical change, as we found the touch pad to be huge, well, delicate when it comes to flip from vertical to horizontal.
Finally, there is the unlock screen, which looks a lot like what you find in Android Honeycomb. Just grab the lock and crawl away to get on the tablet. The screen will give you some information about what that notifications are waiting behind the screen - the sender and the email subject, for example - but, curiously, no way to fully enter the elements of the lock screen .
