Le Pan II vs. Android-modded HP Touchpad

[KaceMN]

Has anyone used both of the LPII and the Touchpad?? I know the specs are similar...so I'm trying to determine why I should stick with my Le Pan II when I could return it and buy a used or refurbished Touchpad for significantly less and have a bunch more options as far as root/custom ROMs and available accessories.

How likely it will be that we actually receive ICS for LPII. My gut tells me there's still a good chance, but it might not be until summer. Also, if/when this thing gets rooted, how long will it take our limited number of interested developers to bring ICS up to the level of what is currently available for Touchpad?

I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts! Thanks!

[yann2]

I have not used the Le Pan II, but you can see from my forum signature line what my choice is in that matter.

[KaceMN]

It's just unfortunate that Le Pan has been slow, unwilling, and dishonest when it comes to servicing their products. I really don't think there's any benefit to my keeping the two Le Pan II tablets I purchased this past Monday when I can nab a couple gently-used Touchpads w/ case and inductive charging dock for under $250 per.

Don't get me wrong...I've fallen halfway in love with my LPII, but I question whether I'll ever have the opportunity to fall all the way. My future just looks better if I imagine it with a Touchpad.

(02-16-2012 11:50 AM)yann2 Wrote:  I have not used the Le Pan II, but you can see from my forum signature line what my choice is in that matter.

Yann...being that you seem to be a fairly well-established tablet user, what are your opinions on the internal storage capacity of the Touchpad? Is 16GB enough to get by? Would you recommend 32GB? I just can't imagine ever needing to have a bunch of media stored on a tablet all at once...

Thanks in advance.

[yann2]

In my opinion, you came to the right conclusions. For a user who understands there's work involved, you need to learn and do stuff before you get Android running on the Touchpad, it's clearly a nice choice.

[ Read - NOT for newbies ]

There are large forums where you can find info, tools and get started on the road to dual-booting Android and webOS in the Touchpad.

I made a detailed post in another thread here, not sure if you have seen it yet, maybe take a look.

I received my Touchpad last week, and only did some lite tinkering on it, but I achieved in minutes things that are impossible on the LPII so far.

Don't discount webOS too - I really like it, and it's one of the reasons of my purchase as well. I find it's user interface much more intelligent and well designed than the Android 2.x devices I have used so far. My Pal Pre2 phone uses webOS, and it's delightful, easy to learn and operate.

I wasn't looking for a cheaper Le Pan II - the Touchpad is much more than that, in my opinion.

Regarding storage, you probably already know that the Touchpad doesn't have any SD card slots; the storage you get in the tablet is all you get to work with.

But you have a minimum of 16 GB, which for me is plentiful. Media files like videos, or larger HD games can take a lot of space, but videos are use once, delete, no? (I keep my videos on external HDDs and DVD-Rs; if I copied a file to watch on the TP, I would be deleting it soon after)

If you are installing Android on the Touchpad, the first step is the re-partition the space. The installer will shrink the TP partitions, to make room for the new OS ones.

Android will install on these, CM9 uses 3 partitions. And CM9 will be able to access or store files on the TP webOS data area as well.

I think 16 GB is good, if you can get a 32 GB for a small difference, it's worth it. But they usually sell for a bit more.