Russell Brand shows his HP TouchPad expertise in more promo videos 36
If you were hoping to see more of Russell Brand as HP promotes their TouchPad, your wish has just been granted. A new series of videos, all done in the same style as the original (though the setting is different), allow Brand to go through a complete rundown of nearly every major feature of webOS 3.0 on the TouchPad. Each video is about 30 seconds long and all combine into one larger video on the HP TouchPad homepage that will keep you entertained for nearly four and a half minutes as he tackles such features as JustType, Synergy, Multi-tasking, the Full Web, Notifications and a few others.
Click through the break to watch the whole series of videos for yourself and see how they resonate with you. We liked them, though would probably rather see Brand's other video actually televised (if any of them will be at all). By the way, what happened to the rest of the celebrities HP was supposed to be bringing? Maybe some of them will show up during the HP Veer Summer of Tour, though we can't be too certain just yet.
Source: HP TouchPad Homepage
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I know something by fact. Apple set the bar high using aluminum in the ipad and in almost all their computers.
HP was forced to changed to aluminum in most of their notebooks (mid and high range). I do not understand why they did not learn from their mistakes.
I sell hp products to wholesalers and distributors in the United States and South America. I eat, sleep hp notebooks. I tried to tell hp to used anything but plastic on the TP...but hp is not Apple. The true is the true, Steve Jobs runs Apple like a start up company. He even reads people's emails. They need to do the following:
1-Include a Touchstone charger with every TP and keep the same price structure.
2- Introduce a TouchPad Envy, Full Aluminum body with a high-density display, and one of those new Lithium Nickel Cobalt Manganese battery
perhaps it clashes with the touchstone technology?
OR maybe that Envy version has been a part of their marketing plan all along.
If it was part of their marketing plan all along wouldn't we have seen it debut alongside the regular Touchpad?
i think u may be right in regards to clashing with the touchstone tech... :/
The TouchPad, Veer and Pre3 hardware were most probably developed by the Palm HW team, not HP's. I can't wait for the products they will develop when HP is taking care of the hardware (Envy TouchPad?, looks very **** in my mind)
edit: not sure why that word gets censored, it just looks "hot" then ...
Palm Pre 2, HP Veer and HP Pre 3 are form Palm.
The TouchPad is made by HP
Read the Review you will see.
"just type completes my thoughts, like a woman."
classic
>>> Youtube link for mobile users: http://youtu.be/KGbeakalXa4
Funny: No screenshot on the Full Web... the gag being we don't wanna see what he's looking at.
Also, when they cut him off at "Imagine catching a superpower.." I laughed, because you know he had something else to say there...
When are we going to see any of these commercials on TV? I just saw Transformers 3 and they had a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 commercial! It was put together very well, almost everyone in the theatre paid attention. All I could think of was it should of been an HP TouchPad commercial!
I thought that was a great ad spot, HP should jump on that band wagon asap! The amount of viewers Transformers 3 reaches out to has to be worth the cost to advertise in the movies.
Am I the only one who picked up on the fact that they are implying that you can look at "anything" on the web, more like Android, and less like Apple? Look at me now, for the last few minutes, I ain't done nuffin'. Well it turns out, I just bought a hovercraft!
"Imagine catching a super powah!" lol.
These commercials are amazing and not in a great way. If only the device were as fast as the commercials show it to be.
Between his accent and the buzzwords he has to get out (SYNERGY! TRUE MULTITASKING! TOUCH TO SHARE! TOUCHSTONE!) it's pretty funny.
These are at least somewhat better than the Palm Pre commercials with the creepy girl.
If these commercials showed the device at its actual speed, they'd have been three hours long.
I agree about the speed. Tried one out at BB & WallyWorld - SLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWW! These will not do well. HP/ Palm - a swing & a miss (again).
i used a few.. thts why i baught one.. it moved pretty quickly to me... By the way they are flying out the door on QVC...
...actually, you might noticed that the cards are either lagging few centimeters behind his finger when swiping at one moment, OR "the actual sentence has been edited", and poorly at that.
Um...
"Screen images simulated."
I am sorry this is funny...LOL Very entertaining not creepy. I wished they would show these on TV. everyone would talk about it then try it out. very funny
Very, very good commercials...just need to get them on TV.
I like the commercials but I hope this isn't HP's main campaign. They don't show the actual OS except for a few brief seconds in each one.
HP, using celebrities is cool (it really worked in the "Hands" spots) but in the mobile/tablet game you HAVE to show off the product. Trust me, when people see what it can really do, they will take notice.
Were my eyes deceiving me, or did that phone look like something other than pre3?
Hahaha "docking"
I agree, I saw that too...
Pretty funny commercials. Nice start, hopefully there's much, much more coming.
Why is it that most of the video's are only on YouTube? The only ad I've seen on TV was the Manny Pacquiao Verr commercial.
I've seen the Miranda Cosgrove Veer commercial on Nickelodeon.
But I agree, let's get these out there quick!
I want to see these on TV or in the movies. Very good start.
Yes I loved them and thanks for the combined video...however that was accomplished. :-)
Russell is certainly different, but in a good way. I guess you have to like his kind of comedy, but I think he's quick, gets to the point, and adds a little something to make it stick. Sorli...
Put it on TV nowwwwwww
It's decent enough. But I think it is wrong to not show either the web or the touchstone in their respectives spots.
On a different note, many are saying the HP Touchpad build quality is too low, well, you're right, it does feel cheap (and it's a fat and heavy tablet), however, that wouldn't be such a big deal if WebOS 3.0 was snappy, if it were fast people would be very pleased, like seriously pleased. But the OS is too sluggish and buggy compared to iOS and Honeycomb.
I think HP SHOULD NOT advertise the Touchpad, they should just sell it to the WebOS fans around the globe, and that's it (and I don't think they're expecting more than that), only when they've actually fixed the problems with OTA updates, they should adverise it... you don't get second chances with first impressions.
I played with a display one yesterday for about 20 minutes and didn't notice any performance issues. The only lag I saw was opening the memos app, but the HP rep there had his personal TouchPad out and his launched instantly. I had very low expectations after reading the reviews and complaints, but I was quite pleasantly surprised by how responsive the OS was. Flash was flawless on youtube, most apps opened almost instantly, and there were no bugs to be found (not saying there aren't any, just didn't see any in 20 minutes).
As for the hardware, it was a bit heavy, but not unusably so.
I guess this gets you Brand name recognition.
I like these Russell Brand commercials, a lot, and I think they'll help raise webOS' profile. I've played with Touchpads a couple of times in stores, and I'm greatly relieved (after reading all the mixed reviews).
Overall, the experience is comparable to using my wife's Ipad 2--it wasn't laggy at all, comments above notwithstanding, and even though it is noticeably thicker, it's still a sleek smooth pleasure to use. And it's got webOS, which spoils me for using anything else.
I'm waiting for the 3G version, but it's a sure thing then.
LMAO - these ads are absolutely brilliant!
Russell Brand is a very funny guy - in a very British way. Love it!
These need to be on TV 24/7. Russell B is funny as all get out. Get this on TV HP!
This is good. I agree, HP needs to get this on TV all the time.
HP also has to get this thing into people's hands. I don't care if they have to give it away. If the sale is not good in one or two months, HP needs to put a big discount, or package touchstone and keyboard for free.
Since they are going to put WebOS on PCs, it is more about WebOS than TouchPad. If more people have WebOS devices, more Apps would be developed and would attract more customers.
Oh, what about touch to print?
LOVE these videos, getting better with every view. WAY TO GO HP !!