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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and today we're taking a look at the HP TouchPad this is HP's first foray into the tablet space at least as far as an iPad competitor is concerned they've had stuff out there in the market with Windows on it but I don't consider that to really be a true tablet true tablets need to have their own dedicated operating system and this one does based on Palms original webOS but modified and tweaked in a way that it might perform better on a tablet platform so as you guys know I've got a number of different tablets with different interfaces and I want to see how this one stacks up but let's talk about the unboxing after all this is unbox therapy so first things first we've got a little bit of documentation and this is always the most boring part of the unboxing but important nonetheless you need to know what you're going to get in a box you also got a microfiber cloth and let me tell you I can tell already that this device is going to require it it seems to be one of those glossy fingerprint magnets oh well it's got a pretty cool little microUSB with some chrome accents and also a way of keeping it organized I don't say that often as far as cool USB TV was a concern but this happens to be one of them and also a cool power adapter rather than be a square it's a cylinder of sorts you got USB on one end and of course your power prongs on the other next let's take a look at the tablet after all that's the most important part of the unboxing here and as I said and as I predicted this is a gloss fest this thing is smothered in gloss if you will now it feels good though I mean it's sort of feels comfortable just like an iPad 2 or something like that and it it's pretty light as well so you got your power button up top it doesn't look like it has any power I'm going to have to get some juice in this to finish out this unboxing but first let's take a look around the device we got stereo speakers so long as you're using the unit in landscape mode and on the other side we've got our volume rocker this thing is very I pad asked it's almost like everything is sort of in similar location so if you've used an iPad it probably feel familiar it looks like a sim card expansion slot here on the bottom top side has your headphone jack along with your mic and as we keep going down here we also see our ipod esque power switch on the bottom of the unit we just have our micro USB now taking a look at the front we have our webcam up top and as we move down the device we'll see our home button once again in the same location as your iPad home button what a surprise so in order to get this thing up and running we got to agree to HP terms and conditions I think I'll do it what do you say let's accept and I didn't notice what you got a sign up for an HP web os account this is a little unusual but I guess I have no choice so here we go now I'm going to hide this personal information from you guys who knows what you might do with it so after you've done all that you get to this set up complete window and it tells you it's going to restart your device but it takes a minute or two or ten this takes a while so I'm not going to make you sit through the monotony let's get to the home screen so there we are after we've rebooted now why not launch a web page and just see how this thing behaves this is not a review by any means guys this is just an unboxing so I'm just going to give you a quick look review is on its way I'm going to do a big battle mode comparison between the touchpad the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and of course the champion of this space for the time being the iPad 2 so let's go ahead and load up unbox therapy combine is a half-decent website and as you can see it's not the fastest on the market I can tell right away but then again it's loading up everything including the ads so you've got to give it a little bit of headroom because of that it's pretty reactive to touch and it's a smooth sort of interface as far as I can tell straight away reacts to my input immediately you've got this cool little all settings menu up here that you can toggle for brightness Wi-Fi any sort of quick settings up here in the top right corner I'll keep the brightness down so I don't blind you guys it's actually a pretty bright screen believe it or not and then up here we've got a little web tab for looking at some web settings and preferences available in a browser now as you back out to the interface here you can see if you know anything about webOS it's got this sort of multitasking platform actually pretty similar to what blackberry is trying to do with their product and I don't have any of these accounts set up obviously but I just want to give you guys an idea of the overall speed and feel so I'm going to launch a few different applications here again this is just as an overview photo application seems to take the longest so far but of course there's no photos in there so kind of anticlimactic but anyhow getting back to the browser let's go ahead and try and launch another window maybe a heavier web page let's do engadget.com about that and so when everyone goes for when they're china show the benchmark for a heavy page that page is friggin loaded with content and as you guys can see is coming up pretty quick definitely well within the acceptable range again this site is full of ads full of content and one thing that I'm super impressed with is this pinch-to-zoom is crazy reactive it's a there's no lag at all it's just maybe maybe it's too quick I don't know it's kind of crazy but anyway guys if you haven't subscribed yet do so because I'm going to be putting this tablet up against the other market competitors and hopefully with some testing we can figure out which tablet might work best for you thanks for watching