Nah – gonna wait for the rumoured Gingerbread hack 😉

Anyone had theirs delivered from Currys/PC World yet?

My order’s still on their system and they’ve authorised but not taken the payment from my credit card but I haven’t heard anything since the email saying “There’s a problem delivering your order… we’ll be in touch”.

I reckon it’s not coming; good job it was only a toy to play with.

Just got a confirmation of dispatch for mine 🙂

it’s now with DHL

My full price one from Amazon has arrived. I emailed them on Tuesday to say (paraphrasing) “An hour after I bought this you were selling them for £115, so I don’t want to pay £429. Can you refund me the difference, or should I just send it back?”. They replied to say they understood my concern, and were waiting for some info, and would get back to me by Friday. Yesterday they emailed again to say sorry, but we’re still researching the issue, but will get back to me by the 30th. Their returns cut-off is 30 days so there’s no issue with waiting, and all credit to them for their communication. I’m not so much as unsealing the box until I hear what they’re going to do though! If they come back with some kind of in-between offer (i.e. offer to sell it for £150 or something) that I don’t want, then I’ll post on here in case anyone else wants it before sending it back.

PCWorld have now taken my CC payment; no other emails from them but if it doesn’t come now I’m going to get mighty cross with them!

Any one going to try for a HP Pre3 phone for £50?
Rumours it will be available from the HP website, but no further news until 31st August.

getting used to this thing now and have fiddled with settings so it is running more quickly and it is pretty good really. It will struggle with no decent apps but otherwise £89 well spent

The rumoured Android build looks like it might be here sooner than you think

http://rootzwiki.com/content.php?234-EXCLUSIVE-CyanogenMod-7-On-the-HP-TouchPad

Mine turned up this morning from Currys

I’ll have a play this evening

When you get your unit do this – it makes a huge difference to its speed….

Steps to set logging to minimal:

Open up the Phone & Video Calls App
Type ##5647# and hit the green call button **note TWO hashes before the number – it took me several attempts to work that out**
In the new window that pops up, click on “Change Logging Levels…”
On the next screen hit “Set Logging To Minimal”
Click OK to confirm on the “Are You Sure?” popup
That’s it!

And if you are on Facebook, follow the HP Touchpad group – they are coming up with lots of tips and information on Android development for the unit.

Cheers, I’ll check that out

does it have GPS and accelerometer/gyro?

it appears to have a GPS – not sure how an accelerometer/gyro would show itself
and you can’t seriously expect me to RTFM can you now?

sent from my HP Touchpad 🙂

accelerometer/gyro?

The main way you’d notice is that it would flip the view from portrait to landscape as appropriate as you turn it round.

yeah it does that

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MF – tried that tip but it wants me to setup a phone and my iphone doesn’t get found by it despite having bluetooth switched on and discoverable

have I missed something?

MF – tried that tip but it wants me to setup a phone and my iphone doesn’t get found by it despite having bluetooth switched on and discoverable

I set up a Skype account on the Touchpad (free to do) then it worked.

I think you are barking up the wrong tree trying to pair it with your phone – it is the phone service on the Touchpad you are wanting to activate, not pair it with another device.

Blimey! Courier just turned up at the door with mine, wasn’t expecting that after PCWorld’s lack of communication. Had quick play and it seems to be pretty easy to use but will leave it charging for now ready for a serious play later.

Dam wish I could get one so cheap.

Is it too late now?

Keep watching – rumours say more may come on the market but they will go quickly. I punted and paid full price for one from Argos then they refunded me when they marked the price down. Everywhere else (selling at the cheap price) had already sold out or took orders only to then say they weren’t able to fulfil them.

I set up a Skype account on the Touchpad (free to do) then it worked.

Ah ……. OK

I have no need for Skype so won’t bother I guess

Just had an email from PCWorld saying my order’s on the way and giving me a DHL tracking number, about 2 hours after it arrived by another courier. 🙄

I guess they haven’t quite got to grips with IT yet.

Uplink – you don’t need to use Skype, it’s just a way of activating the keypad. It is just a 1 minute sign-up job and no need to hand over CC details or anything.

OK thanks
tried it see how it goes

HP announce more for sale…. http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/More-TouchPads-on-the-Way/ba-p/68749

Right, so I’ve got the Touchpad, turned down the logging, downloaded the WebOS SDK to my PC, found out how to put it into developer mode so all ready to play and now Mrs R has discovered Angry Birds so I can’t get near the thing. 😕 Knew I should have bought her an iPad.

I’m sure you’ve all seen this being all tech savvy etc.

but anyway …………

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/new-hp-touchpad-owners-go-get-your-free-50gb-of-lifetime-cloud-storage

I really need to stop playing with this 🙂

Anyway …… there’s also a WebOS update available from the System updates icon on the Settings page

This then makes a QuickOffice update available that now allows editing of Word and Excel docs + the ability to create docs

that’s quite a significant upgrade IMO and makes it a much better tablet for work use
Now can I tether my iPhone to it?

Want some extra speed?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/hp-touchpad-gets-in-gear-both-cores-overclocked-to-1-9-ghz/

Bugger missed it. Im in the market for a touch/pad as well 🙁

Anyway …… there’s also a WebOS update available from the System updates icon on the Settings page

This then makes a QuickOffice update available that now allows editing of Word and Excel docs + the ability to create docs

that’s quite a significant upgrade IMO and makes it a much better tablet for work use
Now can I tether my iPhone to it?
Yeah I did that last night – a welcome change indeed.

Just finished over-clocking mine – miles faster 🙂

Hmm, not sure I fancy trying that – was it easy?

Piece of piss

I was comfortable with it because ……

I didn’t pay much for it
It’s apparently very difficult to brick a Touchpad
It can be easily un-bricked

You lot aren’t making any friends here, you do realise that don’t you…

😉

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Bugger

This may be helpful to those lucky enough to get one.
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2011/09/01/hp-touchpad-thoughts-tips-and-a-few-apps/