User reivew of HP TouchPad for the first 3 days

Here is a simple review of HP TouchPad from a user 3 days after he/she got his new gadget.

1.     TouchPad is good for surfing as it has a full functional browser, which performs well for most websites. The browser on TouchPad works fine with the full desktop version of Gmail and it can play videos on Youtube smoothly.
2.     The music player on TouchPad supports mp3 and m4a. Users can simply copy the complete itunes directory into TouchPad and get all songs played without any problem. The only issue is that tags are not read correctly and covers cannot only be displayed.
3.     The Video player on TouchPad can play 720P movies smoothly.
4.     For ebooks reading, the Kindle App is pretty good to read ebooks for Kindle without any problem. pReader can read .mobi, awz, epub. However, it needs to preprocess epub files before opening them for the first time and it takes half hour to process a 4MB epub file.
5.     TouchPad also has Skype app, whose audio works and video only works for 1 minutes. Then it will freeze and the video can work for another 1 minute after restart. Moreover, users cannot see video of counterparts while counterparts can see video from TouchPad.
6.     Mail client on TouchPad is excellent and it also can sync contacts from Gmail
7.     TouchPad has Quick Office pre-installed， which can access Dropbox directly. The limitation of the pre-installed Quick Office on TouchPad is that it can only view documents but not edit them. It can read PDF pretty well except that the font could be a little bit blur when zooming in/out.
8.     Users register Box.net accounts from TouchPad can get 50GBcloud storage for free. Though Box.net doesn’t have a good PC clien, which limits its usage, it is good enough to put ebooks and other documents.
9.     There are much less games on TouchPad comparing with iPad. But at least there is free version of Angry Birds on TouchPad and the price of Rio on TouchPad is also cheaper than the iPad version.
10.     As the lowest price of TouchPad is only 100$, it is really cost effective comparing with Kindle, which cost at least 114$

According the user experience mentioned above, the HP TouchPad is strongly recommended for users, who would like to have a gadget to deal with daily task like surfing web, reading ebooks, watching videos and so on.