Jul 5, 2011 09:37 AM EDT by The HP TouchPad has a slick, multitasking-friendly interface, a browser that supports Flash, and Skype video calling built in. But all of these goodies won’t be enough to satisfy owners of the first webOS tablet. They need apps, and HP promises about 300 of them for launch. While that number is puny compared to the iPad’s library, we’ve found some compelling choices in the App Catalog. Here are our top picks so far.
USA Today (Free)
USA Today offers a colorful grid-style interface on the TouchPad that delivers the latest headlines in multiple categories: news, money, sports, life, tech, and travel. You also get one-touch access to a five-day forecast for your location and at-a-glance scores for your favorite sports teams. Sliding the little handle at the bottom of the screen can make a story take over the whole display, and USA Today also embeds videos. We’d like to see sharing via Twitter and Facebook added to the mix, but overall this app is slick.
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July 5th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
to clarify to everyone yes 300 apps so far for HP, but android has alittle over 100 with dozen of apps out there. With HPs 300 focusing on core applications people download not thousands of garbage apps that the iphone has. So what the use of having quanity when the quality is horriable?
July 19th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
these are the top 10 ? mostly trash….. do you need new revievers, or does the mfgr need to lure new developers…….