Daily Archives: July 1, 2011

A tablet that is ready to take

July 1, 2011 9:09 pm by Chris Nuttall

HP’s new TouchPad tablet, which goes on sale today, stands out as a product that has been well thought out and only brought to market on reaching a degree of maturity. Sure, it suffers from the same lack-of-apps Achilles heel as Apple’s other rivals but it sits alongside the Galaxy Tab 10.1 as the most serious, direct contender to the iPad 2’s throne. Read more

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