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Review: HP Touchstone 2 Audio Dock

We don't get to review many accessories these days, for reasons that are fairly obvious: nobody makes or sells webOS devices, so why would anybody make accessories for those devices? It's a hard life for the accessory-wanting

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, , or owner. But just because they aren't available doesn't mean accessories don't exist. For example, there's the , a never sold and never announced successor to the original Touchstone that incorporated Bluetooth audio streaming into the charging mix. At least a few have landed , but they're exceedingly rare. You know, like the . We've managed to get our hands on one such example of the HP Touchstone 2 Audio Dock, and it's partly what we expected, and partly not.

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