7-inch HP TouchPad Go Reviewed – The webOS Tablet That Never Was [Unreleased 7-inch HP webOS Tablet Inspected, It’s Just a Smaller TouchPad]

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The 7-inch HP TouchPad Go that we’ve seen in various reports is a real device, a smaller webOS-running tablet that HP never got a chance to launch after the giant computer maker decided to quit the mobile business.

But while the tablet was never sold in stores, a rogue TouchPad Go unit has been found on eBay and webOS Nation gave it a thorough review, like it was an actual product, about to be released. The Go is, at the end of the day, a smaller TouchPad. The device got a pretty good score, 8 out of 10, but that won’t convince HP to launch it, will it?

Let’s look at the specs and features of the TouchPad Go:

• 7-inch touchscreen display with 1,024 x 768 resolution
• dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 processor
• 1GB of RAM
• 16GB/32GB memory
• 3G support
• Wi-Fi
• GPS
• Bluetooth
• 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
• 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• ambient light, accelerometer
• webOS 3.0

And here’s The Good, The Bad and The Conclusion of the review, according to the publication:

• The Good:

Despite having a smaller screen, HP didn’t skimp on the internals. The TouchPad Go is just as powerful, if not more powerful, than every other webOS tablet and every other seven-inch tablet.

• The Bad:

The TouchPad Go is actually pretty thick for a modern tablet, the cameras both are quite poor, and application support is still lacking in comparison to the competition. Oh, and it never was and never will be released.

• The Conclusion:

webOS 3.0 actually works at this smaller size without compromise. Seven inches isn’t the perfect size for everything, but for somebody who is traveling around a lot, the size makes a lot more sense than the bigger ten-inch TouchPad. But the fact that this tablet will never see the light of day puts a rather large damper on the party.

HP had a great run at selling the TouchPad for $99 and one can only wonder how fast would the TouchPad Go would have flown off the shelves in case HP decided to properly launch it. From the looks of it, the Go is definitely a great Kindle Fire and/or Nook Tablet competitor – in fact it blows them out of the water when it comes to specs and features alone, since it’s not an entry- to mid-level device but rather a full-blown tablet. One that we won’t see in stores anytime soon.

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