While I haven't had a chance to play with a TouchPad to see if it's really as fast as HP is touting and if the integration with other webOS devices - which, by the way, was pretty impressive - is as seamless as they say, I'm convinced that HP went above and beyond to make something powerful and competitive enough to jump into the main stage arena with Apple and Google. The team says they’re still working on the touchscreen driver and have resorted to a. In the meantime you can occupy yourself with this proof-of-concept video showing Android running on the device. And we're still waiting to see how RIM's Playbook will fit into the market. If you dropped 99 on a discounted HP TouchPad hoping to run the latest CyanogenMod, you’ll have to wait a little longer. Sure, Google and Motorola are kicking up the heat with the forthcoming launch of the Xoom, the first tablet to run on Android 3 OS.

The tablet space is heating up and certainly the company to beat at this moment is Apple and its iPad.

Senior VP and General Manager Jon Rubenstein called the tablet device 'nothing short of a breakthrough' and I'd say he's right on the money with that comment. The devices looked nice, utilizing the same form factor as the original Pre phones, including a slideout keyboard in the portrait mode, making the phone vertically longer and easier to navigate and type on. Though the tablet stole the show, there were also two smartphones - the Veer and the Pre3, both positioned as friendly to consumers and business users.

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