HP Touchstone Charging Dock for TouchPad

by HP

• Easy, wireless charging for your HP TouchPad
• Place your tablet in the dock in portrait or landscape view
• Watch videos, read books and more as your tablet charges

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.6 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0055QYJIS
• Item model number: FB339AA#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (400 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #651 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 12, 2011

Product Description

Charge your HP TouchPad without wires using the sleek, stylish HP Touchstone Charging Dock. Simply place your tablet in the HP charging dock in either portrait or landscape view. With wireless charging, there are no connectors or cables to untangle. The easel back also lets you adjust the viewing angle to multiple positions, so you can watch videos and read books more comfortably. Browse the web effortlessly without using up the battery on your HP TouchPad. The charge time with this HP charging dock is the same as using a standard AC power adapter. Plus, the HP Touchstone Charging Dock keeps your HP tablet in a safe place when you’re not using it.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

126 of 127 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool piece of technology August 6, 2011

By @ZaneSaysThis

Amazon Verified Purchase

Pros:
+ Just sit your device on the device and voila, charging.
+ Can charge in portrait or landscape view
+ Exhibition mode which is like a fancy screen saver. When the tablet "sleeps" on the tablet you can show a clock, calendar, a pretty cool facebook app, and whatever exhibition app that you can find in the app catalog.
+ Dock can be adjusted for best viewing angle
+ It charges while the case is still on. It seems like it can penetrate through thick layers (thicker cases, or the cover flipped open) and still charges the device.

Cons:
- I wish it were more mobile. The cord has a usb on one end to plug into a power supply, but the other end is stuck to the charger. I can't just remove the plug and take the dock with me to work and then plug it into a different cord there.
- With the case on and open, it can sometimes slide off the charger. Not slide off in a manner that'll fall to it's death, but slide off to the point where it's not charging anymore. Rarely happens though.
- Tablet only charges with the camera at the top, or the camera is on the left. In other words, there's 4 ways to place the tablet on the charger, but only 2 of them will actually charge it. To a new user, it's not obvious which way is right-side up, so they could set it upsidedown, and it's not gonna charge.

76 of 84 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have accessory for your TouchPad! Cut the cords! June 19, 2011

By JayhawkOne

This charger is just plain neat. It doubles as a stand and a charger plus it works in any orientation.

Forget third party "energizer" charging pads, this charger actually communicates and shares information with the TouchPad.

I love how you can set the TouchPad up to automatically display different things (while on standby) like photos or calender/daily schedule depending on which touchstone charger it recognizes its on. I've got one for home and the office!

Coolest way to charge anything!

40 of 44 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful July 5, 2011

By Brian Weatherford

Yes, this is a must have accessory. I just wish it were automatically included with the Touchpad. And had magnets to help align the device with the coils. That said, I haven't actually had any problems getting my Touchpad to charge. I highly recommend this if you can afford it, and since you just dropped five or six Benjamins on a toy, you probably can.
Pros:
- it's so cool
- it works great
- props up your Touchpad at a good angle
Cons:
- so much money for such a little thing

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars ALMOST Perfect July 20, 2011

By R. Spoto

Amazon Verified Purchase

Yes, this thing is awesome. Just like the two stones I have for me Pre.

Cable is sufficiently long. Stand can be set at nearly any angle. Plug is larger than the one for the phones, and oddly missing an HP logo, but is just fine.

The ONLY reason I only gave 4 stars, is because I expected the cable to be detachable like the phone stones. Alas, it is fjrmly wired in to the stone. Doesn't affect functionality at all, but would have liked to use a shorter cable.

To sum it up, if you have a TouchPad (and you should), you NEED one of these! Ditch the cable!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The coolest thing about the Touchpad! July 12, 2011

By RedHawg

Without going into great detail, the Touchpad has more than met my expectations to date. It is easy and fun to work with. By far though, the Touchstone is the coolest piece and the technology is very elegant and simple.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, charges in both landscape and portrait orientation. July 15, 2011

By Jeremy Akers

Not much else to say... Works great, charges in both landscape and portrait orientation. Adjustable angle, can be made to lay completely flat. Not nearly as finicky as the original Palm Pre touchstones for wanting the device to be perfectly centered. You can move it side to side an inch or so and it will still charge. The TouchPad charges on the Touchstone just as quickly as direct USB connection. Audio sounds great when the TouchPad is on the Touchstone as well because it raises the speakers off the surface just enough so they are loud and clear.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Charging made easy July 10, 2011

By goingmobile9

Amazon Verified Purchase

lets face it, plugging a wire into your device to charge it is out of date when you can just set your TouchPad down on the Touchstone cradle to charge it. A added feature is when on the Touchstone your TouchPad switches into exhibition mode with many new up and coming features combining with new webOS phones allowing you to do things such as text and make and receive phone calls. This charging device is the future in tablets.

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Looks awkward with the official HP folio September 15, 2011

By Ketty

Wireless charging is cool and everything but for aesthetic reasons, HP could have made the ledge on the touchstone little bigger/longer! I have the HP folio case and my Touchpad does not stand very well on the ledge with the case on. They could have extended the ledge by 1/8 of an inch more and both the case and the touchpad would have fit on the charger. But no. When I put the Touchpad on with the case (flap behind the touchpad), the Touchpad falls off. The flap of the case stays on the ledge but since the flap does not stick to the Touchpad, the Touchpad ends up crooked. Sometimes, the Touchpad will even fall off onto the table. It will still charge but it looks bad with the Touchpad half falling off.