First thing first

Welcome to the new blog. I have started this blog because I know that most of you, like me, that flocked to their local Retailer to buy a HP Touchpad would like to know a little about this new iPad looking device sitting in front of you. The idea of the blog is not only to teach you a bit about using the Touchpad and webOS, but also to show you all those tricks that the techy people do to unlock the hidden potential in their device.

I want to start off by letting you know a bit of the history of the Touchpad and webOS. webOS is a mobile operating system originally created by Palm for a range of mobile phone devices called the pre, pre plus, pixi and pixi plus. In 2010, computer manufacturing giant Hewlett Packard bought webOS with the vision of creating a range of devices running webOS that would seamlessly function together allowing users to access all of their social networking, emails, mobile games, documents from their device and print to compatible HP printers. The first big release, the HP Touchpad, was available for sale officially on the 15th of August 2011. After only a week or so of being on sale, HP announced it would be discontinuing 'operations' for webOS and subsequently the Touchpad. While this was all happening there were questions about what would happen to the stock of Touchpads sitting in retail stores all around Australia, but such questions were quickly answered when articles like this one appeared all over the net on Monday the 22nd of August, leading to the almost instantaneous sale of all that stock.

The result of all this is that we are all sitting here reading this blog wondering what it is we have purchased on a whim and what sort of powerful potential lies under the glassy tablet screen sitting in front of us. I will hopefully answer some of these questions for you as I bring you a series of tutorials to hack/crack/jailbreak/root, or do whatever you want to call it, to your new Touchpad. The future of this device is now in the hands of opensource and freeware developers out there in the internet community and I will hopefully be bringing you the latest from them right to this blog.


Stay Tuned

Daniel