HP Touchstones up the boardrooms 53
by Dieter Bohn Mon, 16 Aug 2010 5:39 pm EDT
Here's a thought to brighten up your Monday afternoon - next time you're invited into the upper echelons of HP and find yourself seated in one of their boardrooms, you just might have a Touchstone on the table. So says HP's Rahul Sood, who is increasingly becoming CWE at HP (that's Chief webOS Evangelist, for the AA (Acronym-Averse)).
Now guys, just don't forget that we'd still like to see some battery optimization in the future - not everybody gets a Touchstone in their meeting rooms.
Source: @rahulsood; Thanks clutch1222!
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I have 3 touchstones. =)
I have 4. Found a vendor on Amazon that sold plug, cord and 'stone new as a set for $20!
(high five) I also have 4. One at my desk at home, one in my bedroom at home, one at my desk at work, and one in the car.
I'm up to 6; office, home office, bedroom, living room, car, and the sixth is stashed in my travel bag, for when I'm on the road.
If the Epic had a touchstone.... but, it doesn't. I can't believe it myself, but, I like the thing THAT much... ;-/
What a great idea. Hopefully it'll get some of the more senior, important people at HP hooked on the idea of the touchstone to such an extent that they'll decide to never, EVER release a product that isn't touchstone-compatible. And maybe they'll decide to even flesh out the line even more!
I love my touchstone, and I don't know what I'd do without it on the next phone.
Boy, I sure would like to comment on how cool this sounds, but I can't given THE INCESSANT DATABASE PROBLEMS THAT ARE SO VERY PERSISTENT TO PRE CENTRAL!!!!!
Evidence:
http://i.imgur.com/MXPeP.png
Seriously, guys, this has been going on for months now. You should be able to get a hold on this. Can you fix it please? I just got 3 errors in a row trying to post this. From a users standpoint, this is incredibly annoying.
Speaking as someone who runs websites for special events, ie where massive scalability is required, this needs to be handled at the CMS level. The way to be able to scale is to divorce the reading of threads from database calls. In other words instead of asynchronously making a DB call for the content every time someone reads the thread, what needs to happen is to call for "flattened" content. Said "flattened" content being an extract of the contents of the database in some presentation-friendly format such as XML during synchronous operations (read cron) every few minutes or so.
It ain't easy but it's the only way to do it without throwing stupid amount of hardware $$'s at the problem.
Never had a problem myself and this is the first I've heard anyone complain (and I'm here a lot). Can't be too persistent or pervasive if a heavy user/reader like myself has never even heard of it, much less experienced it.
I'm very surprised that this is the case for you. Do you only check the mobile site? That seems to get less errors.
But I can't be the only one with this-- I've seen it in FF, IE and Chrome on my desktop, all three browsers on my laptop, I've seen it at other people's houses, I've seen it on my laptop on public WiFi's, and my friend mentioned it as well. There is NO way this is only me. I mean, hell, if I'm getting it on my phone on the mobile site while at work, the problem's definitely not localized.
Would anybody else like to step up and announce they get the same screen often?
(PS, just got another while trying to post this.)
You're not alone..
I'm primarily mobile, but I've never seen it from any comp I use and, as I said, I check PC a lot, probably 20ish times a day. My home comp runs Ubuntu and uses the Chromium browser, never had a problem on there either. Based on the underwhelming response I'd guess it's a pretty small minority of people who are having problems, and when you have a small minority having persistent problems, that always makes me wonder which side the problem is actually on. But that's just conjecture.
completely off topic deafinoneear but what software are you using for event registration?
I'm not too sure I know what you're talking about... if you mean db error registration, I'm not-- just using browsers.
Otherwise, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Great idea, HP!
Hopefully they heard about the touchstone deal at Verizon.
PSH, I passed a couple of stones last week and you didn't see me tweeting about it.
All kidding aside, this is good news to hear. Now if all the board had pre's or possibly [CENSORED]'s that would be even better. I love how excited Rahul has been with webOS and how much he spreads the word.
Be pretty cool if they updated the touchstone so it could transmit data. You could have them set up like that. Everyone sets their Palm on those and they access the data from their phone. You could control presentations or have them appear at the same time on everyones phone. This would be great for tablets.
I don't know, just a thought for enterprise application of webos.
I like the way you think! ;-)
Good idea for the use case, but isn't something they should do via bluetooth or wifi?
What excites me about this is the probable forethought of all HPalm phones being Touchstone capable considering it is one of many things keeping me from switching to a different phone.
I have 3 touchstones, on in my bedroom, one in my car, and one at work.
Hey! The ones on the left are KIRF's!!!! The logos are backwards! hehe
Awesome, nice catch.
good catch. I think they are all put there via Photoshop... and no cables...
They're the new nuclear powered Touchstones.
I have four touchstones. One in the office, one in my backpack for the road, so I don't have to remember to pack it, two at home - one for my Pre and one for my wife's pixi.
I have 3. I brought one to my day long meeting last week and it wowed many. I convinced one of my colleagues to get a Pre Plus! He liked the MHS option.
I hope future devices are TS compatible.
Why can't they stick bluetooth and wifi and make it a virtual sd memory storage that internalz can access.
just dreamn...
I have three,one on my desk. one installed in my Jeep and one back up incase one goes out.
lol that is something I will never see on my HP site... I think I'm like 1 of 3 people in the whole site that own Palm Pre devices :(
cool
I like this rahul cat
what's with the data base errors?... What data base errors?
I'm here too much and also have not seen this
looks cool, but make them go without them. It will keep the meetings shorter, and bad battery life will get fixed if they run out of battery 4 times every day
sorry for the duplicate
Wow, HP got stones. [chuckle]
LOL
that image looks like sex, even more so when you consider those people at that table get to use them with things (webOS devices) we haven't yet seen ;)
Nice to see some touchstone love at HP. Certainly (could) suggest we'll still be able to use the TS with the next webOs phone. Nice since I absolutely love wireless charging. Now if we only had easy wireless file transfer
I have 5. Two at home, one in the office and two at the cottage. Can you tell I love this thing!?!
Actually those touchstones are for the new WebOS PalmPad. Unlike the iPad which most people get iElbow, you can rest the PalmPad on the Touchstone and use it as the stand, while charging.
After thinking about this article, and knowing that it's for the senior staff... which could only mean that the Pre2 is TS compatible... (hoping!!) afraid that if this is the case, then the unit must be small (slider) in order for it to fit...??
I was nerding it up at GenCon a couple of weeks ago, and I'd drop 75% of my battery by 8:00 PM, with very light usage, not overclocked, with BT and WiFi off. This was my first test ever away from constant Touchstone access, and I was NOT pleased.
I am a Palm fanboy from way back, and based on this experience I would have to seriously think about it before recommending the Pre to anybody. (You know, assuming it were new, rather than six months behind the curve.)
Battery tech needs to catch up significantly before machine specs go much higher, or it's going to be a sick joke.
I agree. Nice to hear that from someone who uses their Pre moderately. Mine's a Pre Plus, overclocked (800 screen on / 500 screen off) with all radios on and GPS Fix pinging every 15 minutes, and the battery is near dead in six hours (or so--haven't checked since loading GPS Fix). So I wasn't sure if it was just me. No excuse for the kind of battery life you're seeing.
cool
I like this rahul cat
what's with the data base errors?... What data base errors?
I'm here too much and also have not seen this
I agree, atrocious Photoshopping.
I do like the idea, the concept of what "somebody" is trying to say though.
I have 3 Touchstones, and four P/S. One set for car, one set for office, and two P/S at home, one by the bedside and one at my home office desk, I move the T/S around between the two.
I don't like leaving the Pre+ cooking on the T/S all night.
that is a gr8 visual !
when I finally accept HP's offer for CEO position( still negotiating)... I will have 2 TS at every chair.
1 for the new Palm Katara(phone)
1 for the new HP Stileto Slate.
all cubicles get a TS for employee purchased devices
I will reinstate Margherita Mondays ... Pool Tables, ping pong tables, arm wrestling competition after 5pm in the break room(s). Great way to let the rush hour traffic die down.
I will have rockem sockem Droid killers... And a shooting range with apples and robots as targets.
good ol fashioned stress relief... For the years of arse kicking to come ;-)
I have 5. One in my office, one in the TV room, one for travel, one that stays in my Ford Escape, and one for my wife's Pre that stays at her desk at work. How can anyone compete with the sheer awesomeness of the Touchstone?
By the way, my Touchstone ownership went up fast once I found out Radio Shacks were basically giving them away for $20 or less.
LOL. Think of a board room full of Pre doing the "ding dong" thing.
But I like the idea to spread the touchstones into their board rooms. That will hopefully lead to better reliability of the touchstone. I have a 50% fail rate with the touchstones I ordered so far. Got them replaced without hassle but of course it would be nice to have them work reliably in the first place.
Why are they all oriented crooked? Do they know how to use them?
Duh! When the photographer said "say cheese" they all turned to face him. ;)
note: Yes I know the photo isn't real and the TS's were all edited in with photoshop.
not to sound sour, but I bet they have to have a power source. If the meeting lasts more than 2 hours, they probably will need a charge. Poor battery life!!!!
I want a touchstone without the cable too; maybe I have to work for HP to get one.
Have girlfriend will work for cable free touchstone ;-))
I don't care how many touchstone they get. I rather have HP develop new phones and software. If HP and Palm does not get there act together and get something out soon, I will be a goner and move to Droid.
I dis agree.
I would rather them spend the next 2 yrs installing touchstones in board rooms... This way they are prepared for future meetings.
I would rather get shoot in the face... then To move anywhere else ( unless the next webOS phone is 5 yrs out... and its as innovative as the BB torch)
I have 1 :-(