"Currently the TouchPad went on sale to the major distributors, United States, such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart, and can be purchased through Amazon.com," HP said in a statement.
As quoted from the Straits Times, Saturday (2/7/2011), this is done in order to be able to sell these HP products immediately in various countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany and Canada. In addition, sales of which will be followed to Italy, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore.
Unlike the iPad, the TouchPad has been supporting Adobe flash video format. This application can run on WebOS operating system, developed by Palm, which is also the pioneer of mobile device that has been acquired by HP last year.
TauchPad debuted for a diverse range of views and want to show their earnestness to challenge the iPad, though later it will have a hard time.
Last month, Apple said that it has been doing sales as much as 25 million units since the release of its first generation iPad in April 2010 and the second generation in March, the iPad 2.
It appears that HP will not be easy to compete with the success of sales of Apple products like the iPad. But the optimism of the HP should be taken into account see the TouchPad is one tablet and be able to compete in world markets.
In addition to the current iPad tablet PCs in emerging markets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, BlackBerry PlayBook, Motorola Xoom and dozens of other tablet has mengaplikasi operating system Google Android. This indicates that rival HP not only Apple but there are still many others.
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