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what's up everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here at the box thing I'm really looking forward to this is one of the newest latest and greatest contenders to the tablet crown this is HP's own touchpad running the newest version of web OS 3.0 that further ado let's go ahead and dig in so here is the Box pretty standard tablet affair you got a picture of the device on the front HP branding on the side you will not see palm mentioned anywhere on here at all they have been completely swallowed up interestingly enough though you do have mentioned of Beats Audio excuse me are you John Rhett injure from TechnoBuffalo I I am I am is that the new iPad it's it's like an iPad okay thanks man I love your show I thought it's go ahead and open the box up almost feels vacuum sealed in there alright let's slide on that business off to the side here is the HP TouchPad first time we've actually held one of these at the HP event up in San Francisco they wouldn't let us touch it so we'll go ahead and push that off to the side so you also going to get in the box now comes the fun part HP is certainly hoping so we're gonna get books HP TouchPad getting started legal stuff all that business no one's ever gonna read let's go ahead and see what else we got I will destroy this box I'm sorry is John Q here too we're gonna have an awesome we do love some John Q so you're gonna have your wall charger with the USB port and then the micro USB port for charging which it uses awesome great not while you're here let's go and take a look at the touchpad so here is the HP TouchPad and I know you guys love absolutely love when I leave the plastic on in my unboxings so we're gonna go in just leave the plastic on here taunting you so let's go ahead and run through the specs for this guy just kidding so this is probably time we're ever gonna see this without fingerprints just pull all that stuff off you guys have been following my videos for a while you know I'm actually a big fan of webOS I really liked the original pre when it first came out and I was a big fan of the pre 2 and the pre pumphrey plus and I even like to be pixie the veer a little sketchy on all right so what are we looking at here we're looking at a nine point seven inch and of course it's always measured diagonal screen with resolution of 768 by 1024 it is running web OS 3.0 the newest version of webOS I'll go ahead power this on while I'm talking using the power button there in the upper right hand corner that Noah guy said he liked the pixie I don't think that guy knows what he's talking about so we'll let this power out hopefully you guys can see see the screen it's being powered by one of the newest Qualcomm built Snapdragon processors clocking in at 1.2 gigahertz and that is dual-core the only camera on this guy lives on the front that is a 1.3 megapixel shooter which doesn't take pictures only used for video calling what I understand there is not a picture photo taking application on here kind of fun I guess it's got 802 11 B G and n it's weighing in at 261 I'm sorry 26.1 ounces or 740 grams the iPad 2 for comparison is 601 grams so this guy's a bit heavier it's gonna be juiced up by a 6300 milliamp hour battery from a pricing standpoint you're looking at $4.99 for the 16 gig model or $5.99 for the 32 gig model and you're also going to have some other ways to give HP your money I've got something like this we've got the touchstone wireless charging dock which is kind of neat you guys are familiar with how the touchstone technology works essentially it's wireless charging so this has going to dig in here this thing plugs into the wall and your touchpad just sits on it and charges kind of neat and if you like you're charging wirelessly can pick up one of those for 80 bucks there's a Bluetooth keyboard is that Apple Magic Trackpad it is not there's a Bluetooth keyboard for for 60 bucks and a few other accessories you can get with your shiny shiny new tablet toy so let's take a look at what the touchpad is gonna do and still booting up one knock I had on webOS II when I first use it was a boot up time is really long so first boot up time purely looking at a few minutes so on the top of the device you're gonna have a 3.5 millimeter headset jack gods looks like it's doing something there you go picking languages I've got your power and lock button the upper right hand side on the left you've got two speaker grilles actually so one up top one down below we're all that beatsaudio goodness is going to come from on the bottom of advice there is your micro USB charging port and on the right you've got a volume rocker up and down on the front there's where the camera button lives and we have a physical home button here on the touchpad interestingly enough so we'll go ahead and do a quick setup if you guys can see this been an outdoors unboxing I'm in the US and confirm English and we'll let it do some setup so of course they - - TechnoBuffalo for all of our touchpad coverage we'll be showing all the new features and showing tours of webOS and how video-calling works and everything else touchpad and multitasking related I am John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo and I'll see you guys next video is anything that you want to see from the touch pad or web OS 3.0 particular be sure to let us know in the comments and of course be doing comparisons with all of the latest tablets I think that's white coming from out in the woods oh let me do before I run away from you guys let me do a real quick size comparison with some of the other tablets on the market that you might be considering I fear is the BlackBerry PlayBook which looks downright tiny go ahead and see the thickness of these two and let's bring in a tablet that you guys might know and either love or love to hate the iPad 2 can go ahead and see you even taking a stand point there the touchpad is definitely a little bit small and addy chubbier side so hopefully you guys enjoyed the unboxing John Breton German TechnoBuffalo and I'll see you in the next one