HP TouchPad surfaces in Vietnam with SIM slot for 3G
updated 12:25 pm EST, Mon March 7, 2011
HP TouchPad 3G version gets Vietnamese leak
HP's TouchPad has popped up in a Vietnamese leak with a video (below) proving that the tablet will have 3G relatively soon. The sighting has shown a 32GB version with a SIM card slot for 3G on HSPA networks. Tinhte didn't load webOS 3.0 as it was low on power, but a side-by-side with an original iPad showed it to be virtually identical in size to the original iPad, which shares the same 9.7-inch screen size.
Versions of 3G have been promised by HP from the outset and are rumored to be arriving as early as September in AT&T. A Verizon 4G edition with LTE has also been tentatively penned in for the same time and would need its own SIM slot.
Officially, only a Wi-Fi version has been scheduled and is due to arrive by the summer. Every TouchPad will have a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 16GB or 32GB of storage and a front 1.3-megapixel camera. WebOS 3.0 will give it a fully tablet-optimized interface and interaction with webOS phones that can push content from one to the other through proximity sensing.
