HP TouchPad, the Glossary
The HP TouchPad is a tablet computer that was developed and designed by Hewlett-Packard.[1]
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93 relations: AA battery, Accelerometer, Adobe Flash, Adreno, Alternating current, Amazon (company), Amazon Fire, Ampere, Ampere-hour, Android (operating system), Android Gingerbread, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Android Nougat, Android Pie, Arch Linux, ARM architecture family, Assisted GNSS, AT&T, Barnes & Noble, Beats Electronics, Best Buy, Bluetooth, Bootloader, Browser engine, Capacitor, Comparison of tablet computers, CyanogenMod, D battery, David Pogue, Digital photo frame, Direct current, Engadget, Evolved High Speed Packet Access, Fire sale, Flash memory, Gigabyte, Gizmodo, GNOME, Gorilla Glass, Gyroscope, Harvey Norman, Hertz, Hewlett-Packard, HP Pre 3, HP Slate, HP Slate 7, HP Veer, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11a-1999, IEEE 802.11b-1999, ... Expand index (43 more) »
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AA battery
The AA battery (or double-A battery) is a standard size single cell cylindrical dry battery.
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Accelerometer
An accelerometer is a device that measures the proper acceleration of an object.
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Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinuedexcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.
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Adreno
Adreno is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in many of their SoCs.
Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.
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Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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Amazon Fire
The Amazon Fire, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a line of tablet computers developed by Amazon. HP TouchPad and Amazon Fire are tablet computers introduced in 2011.
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Ampere
The ampere (symbol: A), often shortened to amp,SI supports only the use of symbols and deprecates the use of abbreviations for units.
Ampere-hour
An ampere-hour or amp-hour (symbol: A⋅h or A h; often simplified as Ah) is a unit of electric charge, having dimensions of electric current multiplied by time, equal to the charge transferred by a steady current of one ampere flowing for one hour, or 3,600 coulombs.
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Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Android Gingerbread
Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the seventh version of Android, a codename of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and released in December 2010, for versions that are no longer supported.
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Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Android Ice Cream Sandwich (or Android 4.0) is the fourth major version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google.
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Android Nougat
Android Nougat (codenamed Android N during development) is the seventh major version and 14th original version of the Android operating system.
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Android Pie
Android Pie (codenamed Android P during development), also known as Android 9 (API 28) is the ninth major release and the 16th version of the Android mobile operating system.
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Arch Linux
Arch Linux is an independently developed x86-64 general-purpose Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling-release model.
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ARM architecture family
ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.
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Assisted GNSS
Assisted GNSS (A-GNSS) is a GNSS augmentation system that often significantly improves the startup performance—i.e., time-to-first-fix (TTFF)—of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS).
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AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.
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Beats Electronics
Beats Electronics LLC (also known as Beats by Dr. Dre, or simply Beats by Dre) is an American consumer audio products manufacturer headquartered in Culver City, California.
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Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs).
Bootloader
A bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer.
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Browser engine
A browser engine (also known as a layout engine or rendering engine) is a core software component of every major web browser.
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Capacitor
In electrical engineering, a capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other.
Comparison of tablet computers
This is a list of tablet computers, grouped by intended audience and form factor. HP TouchPad and Comparison of tablet computers are tablet computers.
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CyanogenMod
CyanogenMod (CM) is a discontinued open-source operating system for mobile devices, based on the Android mobile platform.
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D battery
A D battery (D cell or IEC R20) is a standardized size of a dry cell.
David Pogue
David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter, and correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.
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Digital photo frame
A digital photo frame (also called a digital media frame) is a picture frame that displays digital photos without the need of a computer or printer.
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Direct current
Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.
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Engadget
Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.
Evolved High Speed Packet Access
Evolved High Speed Packet Access, HSPA+, HSPA (Plus) or HSPAP, is a technical standard for wireless broadband telecommunication.
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Fire sale
A fire sale is the sale of goods at extremely discounted prices.
Flash memory
Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.
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Gigabyte
The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.
GNOME
GNOME, originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
Gorilla Glass
Gorilla Glass, developed and manufactured by Corning, is a brand of chemically strengthened glass now in its ninth generation.
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Gyroscope
A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gŷros, "round" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular velocity.
Harvey Norman
Harvey Norman is an Australian multinational retailer of furniture, bedding, computers, communications and consumer electrical products.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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HP Pre 3
The HP Pre 3, styled as Pre3, is a touchscreen slider smartphone manufactured by Hewlett-Packard. HP TouchPad and HP Pre 3 are webOS.
HP Slate
HP Slate is a small line of HP consumer tablets and all-in-ones.
HP Slate 7
The HP Slate 7 is a 7-inch Android 4.1 tablet that was announced on February 24, 2013, and started shipping in April 2013. HP TouchPad and HP Slate 7 are tablet computers.
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HP Veer
The Veer was a smartphone announced by HP on February 9, 2011. HP TouchPad and HP Veer are webOS.
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is part of the IEEE 802 set of local area network (LAN) technical standards, and specifies the set of medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) protocols for implementing wireless local area network (WLAN) computer communication.
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IEEE 802.11a-1999
IEEE 802.11a-1999 or 802.11a was an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 wireless local network specifications that defined requirements for an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system.
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IEEE 802.11b-1999
IEEE 802.11b-1999 or 802.11b is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking specification that extends throughout up to 11 Mbit/s using the same 2.4 GHz band.
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IEEE 802.11g-2003
IEEE 802.11g-2003 or 802.11g is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 specification that operates in the 2.4 GHz microwave band.
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IEEE 802.11n-2009
IEEE 802.11n-2009, or 802.11n, is a wireless-networking standard that uses multiple antennas to increase data rates.
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Inductive charging
Inductive charging (also known as wireless charging or cordless charging) is a type of wireless power transfer.
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IPad
The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010. HP TouchPad and iPad are tablet computers.
IPad 2
The iPad 2 is a tablet designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Compared to the first iPad, as the second model in the iPad line, it gained a faster dual core A5 processor, a lighter build structure with a flat, rather than curved, back, and was the first iPad to feature VGA front-facing and 720p rear-facing cameras designed for FaceTime video calling. HP TouchPad and iPad 2 are tablet computers and tablet computers introduced in 2011.
IPS panel
IPS (in-plane switching) is a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays (LCDs).
Kilowatt-hour
A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.
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LG Electronics
LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
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Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.
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List of Bluetooth profiles
In order to use Bluetooth, a device must be compatible with the subset of Bluetooth profiles (often called services or functions) necessary to use the desired services.
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Lithium polymer battery
A lithium polymer battery, or more correctly, lithium-ion polymer battery (abbreviated as LiPo, LIP, Li-poly, lithium-poly, and others), is a rechargeable battery of lithium-ion technology using a polymer electrolyte instead of a liquid electrolyte.
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LPDDR
Low-Power Double Data Rate (LPDDR), also known as LPDDR SDRAM, is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory that consumes less power and is targeted for mobile computers and devices such as mobile phones.
LuneOS
LuneOS is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by WebOS Ports community.
LXDE
LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements.
Magnetometer
A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetic field or magnetic dipole moment.
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Meg Whitman
Margaret Cushing Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, diplomat, and politician serving as the United States ambassador to Kenya since 2022.
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Microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic, or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
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Multi-touch
In computing, multi-touch is technology that enables a surface (a touchpad or touchscreen) to recognize the presence of more than one point of contact with the surface at the same time.
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Nexus 7 (2012)
The first-generation Nexus 7 is a mini tablet computer co-developed by Google and Asus that runs the Android operating system. HP TouchPad and Nexus 7 (2012) are tablet computers.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Palm Pre
The Palm Pre, styled as palm prē, is a multitasking smartphone that was designed and marketed by Palm with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. HP TouchPad and palm Pre are webOS.
Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc., was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and developing software.
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Phone connector (audio)
A phone connector is a family of cylindrically-shaped electrical connectors primarily for analog audio signals.
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Pixel
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
Qualcomm Atheros
Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductor chips for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon
Snapdragon is a suite of system-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductor products for mobile devices designed and marketed by Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. HP TouchPad and tablet computer are tablet computers.
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TFT LCD
A thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) is a type of liquid-crystal display that uses thin-film-transistor technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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TigerDirect
TigerDirect was an El Segundo, California-based online retailer dealing in electronics, computers, and computer components.
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Touchscreen
A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user.
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Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.
URL
A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.
USB hardware
The initial versions of the USB standard specified connectors that were easy to use and that would have acceptable life spans; revisions of the standard added smaller connectors useful for compact portable devices.
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Volt
The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).
WebKit
WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS.
WebOS
webOS, also known as LG webOS and previously known as Open webOS, HP webOS and Palm webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs that has also been used as a mobile operating system.
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.
X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
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See also
Tablet computers introduced in 2011
- Aakash (tablet)
- Acer Iconia 6120
- Acer Iconia Tab A500
- Adam tablet
- Amazon Fire
- Asus Transformer
- BlackBerry PlayBook
- HP TouchPad
- HTC Flyer
- HTC Jetstream
- IPad 2
- Kobo Arc
- LG Optimus Pad
- Motorola Xoom
- Motorola Xyboard
- Samsung Galaxy Note (original)
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9
- Samsung Series 7 Slate
- Sony Tablet P
- Sony Tablet S
- ThinkPad Tablet
- Toshiba Thrive
WebOS
- HP Pre 3
- HP TouchPad
- HP Veer
- List of WebOS devices
- Palm Pixi
- Palm Pre
- Palm Pre 2
- Web development tools
- WebOS
- WebOS version history
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_TouchPad
Also known as HP PalmPad, Palm pad, PalmPad, TouchPad.
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