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So much for the HP TouchPad...
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tony le mesmer
22-08-2011
€99 in Germany apparently, surely a UK price drop is imminent.
c4rv
22-08-2011
Originally Posted by cjuk:
“Tablets page has been removed from HP UK website as well. Got Argos reservation for tomorrow just in case.”

£350 for 16gb version at argos ?

Better off get a transformer
Mandark
22-08-2011
Read that Best Buy was going to send them all back to HP but then decided to sell them after all. Must be at a big loss though. Why?
clonmult
22-08-2011
Originally Posted by c4rv:
“£350 for 16gb version at argos ?

Better off get a transformer”

Or save yourself £150 and get a Vega, and put on the Corvus5 or Vegacomb mods.

But if these do come down to sub £100, they're definitely in the impulse purchase zone.

Assuming you can find one .....
alanwarwic
22-08-2011
I don't need either but I'd still rather pay £150, an extra £50, for an Archos 101.

The HP is really going to need a good Andorid hack in order to be a long term attraction.
cribology
22-08-2011
Sold out everywhere

Currys
John Lewis
Comet
Best Buy
PC world.

Twice I had it in my basket (£85,£115) only for it to disappear by the time I reached checkout. Bastids.
Sea.See
23-08-2011
Well the price was reduced to £85 for the 16gb and £115 for the 32gb in the firesale. Also hp have said that they will still develop WebOS.A couple of groups are also working on an android port for the tablet aswell.
clonmult
23-08-2011
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“I don't need either but I'd still rather pay £150, an extra £50, for an Archos 101.

The HP is really going to need a good Andorid hack in order to be a long term attraction.”

I wouldn't. The Archos 101 has nowhere near enough RAM (256meg), and only has a 1gHz A8 - Android 2.2 can be sluggish at times running on a Tegra 2.
c4rv
23-08-2011
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“I wouldn't. The Archos 101 has nowhere near enough RAM (256meg), and only has a 1gHz A8 - Android 2.2 can be sluggish at times running on a Tegra 2.”

Unless you are multi-tasking I have not found android 2.x or 3 to be slow on a the tegra based devices
alanwarwic
23-08-2011
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“I wouldn't. The Archos 101 has nowhere near enough RAM (256meg), and only has a 1gHz A8 - Android 2.2 can be sluggish at times running on a Tegra 2.”

Some phones have even less RAM.

Unless you don't have a laptop these things are like to be for occasional use only anyway. That occasion often requiring the lightest larger size tablet in the world.

And being Android it always has access to the widest range of software.
keep.flyin
23-08-2011
I have managed to place an order for one, it does everything I want a tablet to do, which is access to the internet and use flash. Looking forward to having a nice gadget to play with. If a decent android hack comes out that's a plus.
MrSuper
23-08-2011
Sold out EVERYWHERE!

'Unprecedented demand'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14633434
whedon247
24-08-2011
think the chance to get this may have gone...
Big Poy
24-08-2011
supposedly hp have more stock so we'll just have to wait and see
Mandark
24-08-2011
Aaaarrghh!! So the prices dropped at sometime during the day on Monday did they and sold out almost immediately? Hopeless for many of those of us at work.
flynn
24-08-2011
The price drop went live online at 6pm on Monday (for the Dixons group, anyway) - by about 5 past they were all gone...
Tassium
24-08-2011
There can only have been a few tens of thousands units in the UK. The chances of getting one would be slim.

Amazon basically sold out in a seconds, perhaps 100 Touchpads?

Big names like BT/Dabs and Misco clearly only had a few thousand each, if that.
Big_Ted
24-08-2011
You needed to spend time on the computer updating sites non stop.

I got 2 from carphone warehouse for £89 each and another couple from Argos by reserving them paid full price this morning and price differnce refund within a week.

Now I am waiting for Amazon to confirm they will refund the difference on 3 bought at full price plus 3 direct from HP waiting confirmation of shipping @ £69 each.

And before anyone has a go they are all for friends and family and handed over at cost price. I am not one of those "ahem" who bought loads just to sell on ebay.

It has taken about 7-8 hours on the computer but worth it to see the happy faces.

Its a lovely bit of kit and I have heard from several people who work for HP that their engineers expect to have a port to android ready in approx 2 weeks.

HP have also announced in the US that more are coming there so we may see more hre also.
rkl
18-09-2011
Originally Posted by Big_Ted:
“Its a lovely bit of kit”

I got my 32GB model from Comet and I find the TouchPad a little heavy and the lack of a standard USB port or SDHC slot is a bit annoying, but otherwise it's quite a reasonable tablet build-wise.

> and I have heard from several people who work for HP that their engineers expect to have a port to android ready in approx 2 weeks.

No way will HP officially port Android! Qualcomm did unofficially whilst testing the CPU (hence the leaking of a few units with Android on them), but it's actually CyanogenMod doing the Android porting work and they're mighty close now.

> HP have also announced in the US that more are coming there so we may see more hre also.

Nothing came in bulk again to the UK and certainly not at the 89/115 price points. Apparently HP UK staff got to buy up a few thousand at even cheaper cost, plus DSG stores briefly put them up as a 249 quid bundle with charger/case, but that's it. Apart from eBay, no-one's now selling the TouchPad in the UK.

I'll just throw an outrageous plug for my TouchPad blog, but I don't bother tracking sites that sell TouchPads obviously (since there's no-one left now).
Mandark
21-09-2011
Watching Bloomberg TV. So, HP's new CEO, Leo Apotheker, looks like he's going to be given the boot because he's not been giving enough direction to the company. The PC/mobile division may now be retained now after all. So you might get webOS updates for those cheap Touchpads.
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