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HP TouchPad: Beautiful Software, Lousy Hardware, Say Mossberg, Pogue

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) tablet computer "TouchPad" will go on sale Friday, and the Wall Street Journal Walt Mossberg and The New York Times David Pogue has time to weigh in their views in their respective columns on Thursday.

Mossberg: "Despite its attractive user interface and different, this first version is simply no match for the iPad. He suffers from poor battery life, lack of applications, and other deficits. "Although it adds to the end," Despite these problems, in many ways the TouchPad is a pleasure to use."

Pogue: "In this embodiment 1.0, the touchpad does not come close to being as complete or mature as the best iPhone and Android tablets, you would be shortchanging yourself by purchasing a time, unless you are a kind of rage ABA nut (all except Apple). But there are signs of greatness here. "

Pogue notes the hardware specifications are a failure: 40% thicker than the iPad, 20% heavier - "a specification bitter to swallow in a gadget, you stand all day."He attributes specific to the processor performance". When you rotate the screen, the screen takes two seconds to match - an eternity in time compressed "(There is no mention of Qualcomm (QCOM) by name, s it is a QCOM from there, and he scoffs at the notion of a TouchPad "a high-speed chip.")

The TouchPad got 60% battery life test of the IPAD Mossberg, about six hours, if Pogue got eight, he wrote.The TouchPad does not have a camera mounted on the back or the proper application to take pictures and movies, underline both. He has only one camera in front for video conferencing. The TouchPad is only 300 applications optimized for it now, they both observe. (It runs about 8000 Palm applications, but they can not fill the screen of 10 inches.)

And there were "lots of bugs" in his single week, using, Mossberg wrote, including "Angry Birds" crashed several times (making them even more angry, it is assumed), the video playback Web-based Flash irregular, some performance degradation, requiring the restart of the device over time, videos, etc. "play in spurts," wrote David Pogue of quality Flash.

LG KF900 Prada review | Bandung Flasher Blog

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It was about time the first Prada phone by LG got an update, no doubt about that. Data transfers, connectivity, multimedia and user interface upgrades are spot on, but a hardware QWERTY keyboard was hardly essential. It’s the Prada phone after all, and it probably needs all those buttons as much as the Sonim rugged phones need a Dolce & Gabbana carrying case.

Oh well, all-in-one QWERTY touchscreens are obviously the new black. Or so the LG KF900 Prada believes. Keen to find a niche within the niche, it lands right in the middle of not so friendly smartphone crowd. It’s got the features to stand up to the XPERIA, HTC and the likes but it’s kinda hard to imagine the ruthless WinMo machine melting with pity for the adorable, helpless, irresistible Prada.

Anyway, we think we’d be better off skipping our traditional round of window shopping this time. After all comparing the Prada to the smart messengers running Symbian or Windows Mobile will be irrelevant and unfair. There will be of course references to equally equipped messengers as we go, for both performance and looks, but that will be all.

Meet the new Prada

We couldn’t find any other handset willing to embrace the LG KF900 Prada concept. The QWERTY touchscreen all-in-one segment is a small niche to begin with, and the haute-couture label narrows it down even further. The new Prada phone by LG finds itself in a difficult position so let’s see if it’s got what it takes to make the best of it.

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