In the wee hours of the morning yesterday HP marked down the price of its now-discontinued HP TouchPad tablet and started selling off inventory for prices as low as $99. The tablet quickly sold out online and in stores. Best Buy But there’s one store where you simply couldn’t buy the tablet at all on […]
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HP is offering money back to early TouchPad buyers
The HP TouchPad is a hot item this weekend now that HP has dropped the price to $99. But what if you’re one of the folks who paid $399 or more to pick up the tablet during the 7 weeks when HP was selling it at non-liquidation prices? It looks like you might be able […]
HP TouchPad afterlife: Hackers bringing Android, Ubuntu to HP’s tablet
HP has repeatedly stated that while the company is discontinuing webOS hardware including smartphones and the recently launched HP TouchPad tablet, that the webOS operating system will continue. HP is hoping to find a partner to license the software for use on other products — and we may still see software updates for existing webOS […]
$99 HP TouchPads are tough to find
Last night HP marked down the price of an HP TouchPad tablet to $99 for the 16GB model and $149 for the 32GB model. In Canada, Best Buy, FutureShop, and The Source all followed suit and many bricks and mortar stores sold out nearly instantly. It turns out in the US it’s even tougher to […]
HP finds the sweet spot: Retailers selling out of $99 TouchPad tablets
This week HP announced that it would discontinue all webOS hardware including smartphones and the recently released HP TouchPad tablet. That decision was largely due to the fact that these products simply weren’t selling. But this weekend HP seems to have figure out how to sell an awful lot of TouchPad tablets: Sell it way […]
HP to liquidate TouchPad tablets for as little as $99
HP launched the TouchPad tablet on July 1st with a starting price of $499. Tomorrow you’ll be able to pick one up for just $99. Following news that HP plans to exist the webOS hardware space, the company will begin selling off its existing tablet stock at prices that are far below cost. Best Buy […]
HP releases 64GB TouchPad for some reason
Sure, HP plans to get out of the webOS hardware business in the next few months, but the company had already placed orders for a shiny new HP TouchPad tablet with 64GB of storage and a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. So before closing up the TouchPad shop, HP has gone ahead and […]
HP pulls the plug on webOS: Goodbye TouchPad, Pre
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 […]
Rumor: Best Buy unable to sell 90% of its HP TouchPad stock
The HP TouchPad is one of the few tablets to launch this year that doesn’t run Google Android. The only other big name tablets in this class would be the BlackBerry PlayBook and the market-leader: the Apple iPad 2. But while the TouchPad’s webOS operating system helps set it apart from the crowd, it doesn’t […]
HP TouchPad price cuts go global
HP recently dropped the price of the TouchPad tablet in the US by $100. Now the entry level 16GB model of the company’s first webOS tablet is available for $399.99 while the 32GB version runs $499.99. But it looks like the price cuts aren’t a US-only phenomenon. In Germany the base price has fallen from 480 […]