The HP TouchPad tablet hit the streets last summer for $499 and up, but after HP discontinued the tablet in August it slashed the price by as much as 80 percent, selling the 16GB model for $99 and the 32GB version for $149. While the TouchPad had suffered from poor sales up until that point, they sold out almost instantly….

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HP gave shoppers one more chance to pick up TouchPad tablets at fire sale prices this weekend when the company offered refurbished tablets through its eBay store. 16GB TouchPads were priced at $99 each, while 32GB models ran $149. But a few seconds after the tablets went on sale at 6:00PM Central Time on Sunday, December 11th, shoppers started to…

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HP has announced that it will offers dirt cheap HP TouchPad tablets again on December 11th. But it’s a limited-time offer and there are a few catches. The tablets will be refurbished tablets. TouchPads are limited to two per customer. All sales are final. There is only a 90 day warranty. The HP TouchPad tablets will be available at HP’s…

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When HP marked down the price of the HP TouchPad tablet from $399 to $99 last month, it went from one of the worst-selling tablets on the market to one of the best… in a matter of seconds. In fact, virtually every store that had the tablet in stock sold out almost immediately after the price was dropped. But some…

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Update 9/17/11: CyanogenMod now has WiFi working, audio partially working, and the accelerometer working. You can find a second video with more details below. The independent developers working to bring Google Android to the HP TouchPad are making very fast progress. Just a day after the TouchDroid team showed off support for multitouch input on the tablet, a developer with…

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While HP finishes blowing out the remaining stock of its original TouchPads, there’s some interesting talk today centering around an interview by Reuters with the Personal Systems Group’s Todd Bradley. According to Bradley, there could be an unexpected result should HP decide to spin off its PC division: a new and improved HP TouchPad. Tablets are a market segment that…

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HP has announced that it will “discontinue operations for webOS devices” including smartphones and the recently launched HP TouchPad tablet. The news isn’t a total shock, given the lukewarm reviews the TouchPad received and recent reports that it’s not selling very well. But it is still a rather dramatic move from a company that had recently been pushing webOS as…

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It looks like the oversized touchpad without any physical buttons is going to be a staple of Chromebooks. The Google Cr-48 laptop had one, as do the new Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700 Chromebooks. While there are no left or right buttons, the touchpad is clickable. That means you can press down on the entire touchpad to register a…

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Acer has introduced a new line of multimedia laptops with a feature I haven’t seen before: You can remove the touchpad and use it as a touchscreen remote control. The Acer Aspire Ethos 8951G and 5951G are big, expensive laptops. They’re not the sort of computers we typically mention on Liliputing. But the touchpad/remote concept is so cool I had…

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HP hasn’t announced the pricing for its upcoming TouchPad tablet line, but the folks at PreCentral got their hands on an inventory screenshot from Walmart which seems to suggest that the tablet will be priced about the same as Apple’s iPad. The image shows a 32GB HP TouchPad with WiFi for $599. That’s the same price you’d pay for a…

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HP still hasn’t officially announced a launch date for its upcoming webOS tablet, but Digitimes reports that the HP TouchPad could ship in late March or early April. DigiTimes often gets scoops like these by talking to industry sources in Taiwan, so there’s a god reason to believe the prediction. We already know that HP doesn’t want to wait too…

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While the resizeable on-screen keyboard for the upcoming HP TouchPad tablet looks pretty nice, nothing beats a physical keyboard for getting some serious typing done. If you find you can eke out 100wpm per minute with a physical keyboard and just 20 to 30 with your thumbs, fear not: HP is showing off a Bluetooth keyboard designed to work with…

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