HP annouces webOS Pivot

This morning, HP annouced webOS Pivot -- a new tool for users to find applications for the HP Touchpad, based on their lifestyle and interests.  It's designed to be a service that compliments the webOS app catalog, and would showcase applications and the developers that create them.

Full Skype coming to webOS

As many of you know, the Verizon Palm Pre 2 has skype connectiving - allowing one to use Skype as an IM service, but exclusively for chatting -- and only when you're using Verizon's 3G network.  Well, with the HP Pre 3 and the Touchpad underway, it looks like there's going to be complete Skype connectivity with all webOS 2.2 and 3.0 devices, agnostic to what carrier it's on.

What Differentiates the Touchpad from other tablets

Touchpad Differentiators:

• Great Virtual Keyboard that's re-sizable, has a number row, next field key, and easy character accents
• Flash 10.3
• Cards/Stacks visual multitasking instead of task switching with only icons
• Synergy system that integrates multiple accounts
• HP printer drivers pre-installed with wireless network printing
• Up to 16 Exchange and other 3rd party email accounts at once
• webOS Profile Cloud Hosting  Environment Connecting Multiple Devices to One Profile
• Accepts Texts and Phone Calls from phones on the Touchpad
• Touch-To-Share data transfer with webOS smartphones
• Touchstone Charging  Dock that can charge the Touchpad even with its case on!

Here's a great video demonstration of the Touchpad: 

You can see that webOS runs on the Touchpad without the lag it had at the February 9th event.  The only thing I noticed slow in the presentation was the video streaming - which can be attributed to a slow network connection.

Source: webOSroundup