HP’s TouchPad tablets might not be gone for good, even after the fire sale ends. A company executive believes that the doomed tablet, which was more popular in death than in life, could make a comeback if HP spins off its personal computer business.
The TouchPad was on the market for about six weeks before HP announced that it would …
Did you hear the news? HP’s new TouchPad tablet has been discounted to $99 in the midst of the company’s hasty exit from the tablet and smartphone game. It’s not going to be easy to get your hands on one, but here’s a list of places you can try if you’re willing to commit to some serious bargain hunting.
(MORE: HP’s WebOS Failure …
With HP’s decision to stop making WebOS phones and tablets, one thing is painfully clear: Being like Apple is tougher than it looks.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said that his company “creates the whole widget,” from hardware to software to services. By comparison, hardware makers like Dell, Samsung and Lenovo are at the whim of …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
It’s not every week that two major industry announcements happen that could change the technology playing field forever. But the fact is that the …
Hewlett Packard has abruptly announced that it’s getting out of the smartphone and tablet game, a little over a month after it launched its TouchPad tablet and around two years after it ponied up almost $2 billion to buy Palm for its mobile “WebOS” software. Speculation about such a decision has been brewing in recent months, though HP …
Apparently, huge price cuts on HP’s Touchpad didn’t save the tablet from flopping hard. Sources tell All Things Digital that Best Buy has sold just 25,000 units — less than 10 percent of its inventory. Analyst Rich Doherty of the Envisioneering Group says sales are also poor at Walmart, Microcenter and Fry’s.
(MORE: HP’s TouchPad …
HP’s new TouchPad tablet saw a $50 price cut about a month after it was released. A few days later, HP announced a weekend promotion that brought the price down another $50. Now, the $100 price cut has been made permanent, pegging the tablet’s starting price at $400, per Engadget.
This is a smart, aggressive move by HP as it …
HP’s TouchPad tablet was released about a month ago at a starting price of $500—see our take on the device here—and the company has already announced a $50 instant rebate available for purchases between July 29 and September 10.
Some retailers, such as Amazon.com, are offering additional discounts as well: Amazon sells the …
The promise of Windows-based “ultrabooks” is an intriguing one. They’re coming later this year and they’ll sport super-thin, super-light designs similar to those found in Apple’s MacBook Air line of notebooks.
As Windows machines, there may have been an expectation that they’d cost less than similarly-outfitted MacBook Air models. …
Laptop heavyweight HP may soon try to take on Apple’s MacBook Air with an ultra-thin notebook of its own.
The laptop would be part of a new category of PCs that Intel is calling “Ultrabooks,” measuring less than an inch thick and selling for under $1,000. According to DigiTimes’ unnamed sources, HP’s early entrant would use Intel’s Core
…
I’m pretty sure this statement isn’t going to create a firestorm of controversy: HP’s TouchPad, in its initial form, isn’t going to keep Steve Jobs or anyone else at Apple up at night. I reviewed the tablet for this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, and while it has some good points–especially the WebOS interface–it’s remarkably …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
As a technology consulting firm, our company has had the opportunity to work with most of the vendors in the PC market and for most of the last …
