Today the brand of HP has just announced finally that preorders for the Wi-FI version of the HP TouchPad in Europe and North America will start from June 19, 2011, additionally it will also expected to release in US on July 1, 2011. Moreover the device will available from US retailers, commercial resellers as well as direct from HP along with several of options like either 16 GB of internal storage that costs around $500 or 32 GB internal storage which prices near about $600.
In this purpose of selling HP TouchPad the commercial resellers and retailers of US will include Staples, Office Depot, Sam’s Club, OfficeMax, Amazon.com. Microcenter, Fry’s, Best Buy as well as additional leading regional as well as local retailers including HP’s online stores. But the brand you HP did not stop yet, they also announced that they will be planning with the AT&T now in order to introduce a connected version of the HP TouchPad on the latter half of this summer.
Last but not in the least HP has also shared that its first newly born webOS tablet will rolled out all over the UK, France, Ireland as well as Germany just a few days later from the release in Canada in mid-July. Also following this availability schedule it will release in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong as well as Singapore later half of this year. So, specific pricing as well as availability for the HP TouchPad in these countries will be announced at a later date.
In the specification part the HP Touchpad contains a good 9.7 inch slate display, also it is powered by the powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 processor. The webOS in this device is also too good. Additionally this has associated with some intelligent additional features such as 1 GB RAM, 16 GB or 32 GB internal storage device, microUSB port version 2.0, Bluetooth version 2.1 along with EDR, compass, GPS, a front facing camera of 1.3 megapixel along with some inbuilt features such as accelerometer, gyroscope and light sensor and many more. The approximate height of this device will be 242 x 190 x 13.7mm and weight will be 740 gm.
Some additional accessories for HP TouchPad will also available in the market which include HP TouchPad Wireless Keyboard, Touchstone Charging Dock as well as HP TouchPad Case, which are expected to be priced at $50, $70 or $80 respectively.