PCMag.Com - What could goose the fortunes of HP's TouchPad tablet? How about official support from AT&T? The nation's biggest GSM carrier showed off a version of the TouchPad gussied up with a 1.5-Ghz processor and HSPA+ support at a Tuesday evening event.The AT&T TouchPad works much like the Wi-Fi-only model we reviewed, which we called the best non-iPad tablet. It has a few differences.
There's a SIM card slot in the top: push on it and the SIM tray pops out. Similarly, there's an HSPA+ signal indicator in the status bar, and a new AT&T Communication Manager app with a long, skinny progress bar showing how close you're coming to your data cap for the month. (See them in the slideshow below.)
The 1.5-Ghz processor should give this TouchPad a boost over the Wi-Fi-only model's 1.2-Ghz unit, but sadly, I found this TouchPad to have some of the problems many people have cited elsewhere. In the hands of Ovum analyst Jan Dawson, the TouchPad's scrolling juddered and it took a noticeable while to render our PCMag.com home page. More
