HP officially unveiled its next generation of webOS devices today, including the new TouchPad tablet, Palm Pre 3 and HP Veer.

Palm chatter

Buzz around Palm has already doubled so far today following the announcements.

HP TouchPad chatter

The TouchPad is HP’s big move into the white-hot tablet space. Check out the Engadget review comparing HP’s TouchPad to the iPad and Motorola Xoom. Chatter around TouchPad spiked above Xoom today, but is still well below iPad buzz.

HP Chatter

Conversations around HP are currently 86% positive.

HP Conversation Topic Cloud

The TouchPad is being mentioned in 24% of HP conversations today.

Google officially unveiled Android Honeycomb, the first Android OS designed specifically for tablets, during a press conference today.

Google Android Honeycomb chatter

Chatter around today’s Honeycomb announcement has already equaled buzz from early January following its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Android Honeycomb vs. iPad Chatter

Despite two spikes in chatter this month, Android Honeycomb chatter still pales in comparison to Apple’s iPad chatter. The iPad would be ranked in the top 1/3 of Fortune 500 companies if the product were just a company within itself.

Android Honeycomb vs. iPad Sentiment

Conversations around both iPad and Android Honeycomb are both right around 85% positive. However, the iPad has been used and reviewed by customers and is generating much more content. Time will tell whether the Android Honeycomb tablets are a serious iPad competitor.

Last week, Apple confirmed many speculations of the release of a computing tablet after announcing the launch of the Apple iPad. In wake of the news, social media felt a massive influx of iPad related posts, tweets, mashups as Apple endured praise and criticism from all over the world. Here’s a look at the social media buzz surrounding the iPad:

Activity surged on the day Steve Jobs unveiled his precious new product and nearly 400,000 bits of content were generated on the interweb on this day alone!

Apple must be doing something right upsizing the iTouch because people seem to be really into this new product. Without even getting a chance to sample the actual device, 75% of social media references have been positive.

Here we see a word analysis that shows the to terms associated with each sentiment. “Lack” was the most popular negative term and it seems that the deficiency of the usual computing features and abilities (can someone say Flash?) really tickled some nerves.

This is what it looks like to put all iPab conversations into a word cloud. Here you see that Steve Jobs was a big part of the chatter as were alleged product features. So here it is, straight from the horses mouths. People dig the iPad. Are you going to get one?