True. 1.5 -> 1.6 though to me isn't heavier enough for me to even care about. Considering the TouchPad has wireless charging, and stereo speakers, I'd be fine with an extra .1lb to carry. The one downside appears to be battery capacity. Apple says the iPad is a 25 watt hour battery, and the TouchPad is coming in at 6300 mHa. Not sure of the exact voltage to convert the iPad number, but it seems the TouchPad might be a little lower capacity. With a dual core CPU, and other hardware to drive, the Thinkpad may be down an hour or two compared to the iPad, if not more.

The TouchPad has me interested in a number of things, and would appeal to me more then a Honeycomb tablet. The big thing I like is the integration between the phone and the pad. I still find it odd the iPhone can't show me my SMS messages on my OS X computer, when an older Sony Ericsson T68i did this ages ago. Pal^H^H^H HP is now doing this between the phone and pad, and has even more integration with the ability to pass off URLs and other information. This is an area I hope to see both Google and Apple improve. If I'm buying into a whole ecosystem, I want easier ways to move between devices.

I do share in the appreciation of the card metaphor too. I'm not overly bothered by the situation on the iOS side showing opened and closed apps in the bar, but I think the card layout is cleaner when bouncing between a few apps.

The smaller Veer phone I think will find a market. It doesn't really appeal to me these days, but in the pre smartphone days, I generally preferred phones like the Nokia 8210 and SE T68i. I could see a number of people wanting to stay with a tiny phone even when jumping into the smartphone space.



I agree. Announcing the Pre 3 this early really shows the previous phones aren't selling well at all today. Announcing the tablet this early is probably good though, to at least get it in the minds of people while Honeycomb and the iPad 2 roll out. Gadget blogs are likely to do comparisons against the TouchPad now, whereas had HP waited to announce it in the summer, it would be past the shipping point for the competitors.

The WebOS platform to me is still more interesting then Android. It has a good level of polish, on par with where Apple, and Microsoft with WP7 are, and I'm glad to see HP putting a lot of resources behind it. Honeycomb shows a lot of polish improvements, but only time will tell how the 3rd parties are going to wreck it with crappy skins and app launchers piled on top of the stock Google experience.