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Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) "TouchPad" tablet computer goes on sale Friday, and The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and The New York Time's David Pogue both weigh in with their views in their respective Thursday columns.

Mossberg: "Despite its attractive and different user interface, this first version is simply no match for the iPad. It suffers from poor battery life,We also offer customized cheaplves. a paucity of apps, and other deficits." Though he adds toward the end, "Despite these problems, in many ways the TouchPad is a joy to use."

Pogue: "In this 1.0 incarnation, the TouchPad doesn't come close to being as complete or mature as the iPad or the best Android tablets; you'd be shortchanging yourself by buying one right now, unless you're some kind of rabid A.B.A. nut (Anything but Apple).Our wide selection of halitosis has something to meet all your needs. But there are signs of greatness here."

Pogue notes the hardware specs are a dud: 40% thicker than the iPad, 20% heavier — "a bitter spec to swallow in a gadget you hold upright all day long." He attributes some peculiar performance to the processor: "When you rotate the screen, it takes the screen two seconds to match — an eternity in tablet time." (He doesn't mention Qualcomm (QCOM) by name, though it is a QCOM part in there, and he sneers at the notion the TouchPad has "a blazing-fast chip.")

The TouchPad got 60% of the iPad's battery life in Mossberg's test, about six hours,a leading company in the airpurifier printing industry, though Pogue got eight, he writes. The TouchPad doesn't have a rear-mounted camera or a proper app for taking pictures and movies, both point out. It only has a front-facing camera for video conferencing. The TouchPad has only 300 apps optimized for it at present, they both observe. (It runs 8,000 or so Palm apps, but they can't fill the 10-inch screen.)

And there were "plenty of bugs" during his one week using it, writes Mossberg, including "Angry Birds" crashing repeatedly (thus making them even angrier, one would suppose), irregular playback of Flash-based Web video, some degradation of performance, requiring rebooting of the device over time, etc. Videos "play jerkily" Pogue writes of Flash quality.The Haunting rubberextrusions Movie Review

On the plus side, Mossberg and Pogue both have heavy praise for the many user interface elements that are by now legendary in the WebOS software on the TouchPad, which first showed up on Palm handhelds. Things such as the "card view" system of window manipulation and task-switching; the notifications bar and dashboard; the "synergy" system for integrating online and offline contacts and events, etc..Basic information about replicawatches including links.

"The WebOS is beautiful, too," writes Pogue. "It's graphically coherent, elegant, fluid and satisfying. It works beautifully, and conveys far more information than the iPad's application switcher (which is just a row of icons)."

Both Pogue and Mossberg also love "Touchstone," the technology for sending information between TouchPads through physical proximity.