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One Last Shot at a $99 HP Tablet
The HP TouchPad: If you blinked, you may have missed it. The tablet launched on July 1 and was killed off on August 18. TouchPad, we hardly knew ye.
In no time at all, HP dropped the TouchPad’s starting price—originally …
Where to (Try to) Find the $99 HP TouchPad Tablet
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 …
HP TouchPad Now $400 for Good, 7-inch Version Hits FCC
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 …
One Month Later, HP Cuts Price of ‘TouchPad’ Tablet by $50
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 …
HP Is Committed to Its ‘WebOS’ Platform (and It Should Be)
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 …
HP TouchPad Struts Its Stuff Before Launch, but Is It Enough?
If you’ve got a few minutes to spare, HP would like to explain how its TouchPad distinguishes itself from other tablets.
A new series of videos touts the TouchPad’s key features, ahead of its launch on July 1 (starting at $499). They show off the TouchPad’s card-based multitasking that lets users run lots of apps at once, and the …
HP Tablet May Download Music It Thinks You’ll Like Automatically
Well this would be interesting. PreCentral.net is reporting that HP’s upcoming TouchPad tablet may not only have built in movie and music stores, but that the music store may let you synchronize your own music library to HP’s servers. That’s not all, though.
The music store may also “leverage a ‘smart algorithm’ to ensure that the …
HP TouchPad to BlackBerry PlayBook: Quit Copying Me!
Nothing like stirring the pot between two tablet makers, eh? That’s just what Laptop did by calling the attention of HP and BlackBerry to the similarities between both companies’ upcoming tablets.
According to Laptop:
“Both tablets render open programs as cards that you can easily swipe through for multitasking, and you can close
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Two Minute Video: The HP TouchPad Tablet is Coming
The HP TouchPad was announced this week. It’s a slick-looking tablet that’s nearly identical in size to the iPad but sports a faster dual-core processor, front-facing camera and runs the WebOS interface that was developed by Palm before it was acquired by HP last year.
The lack of a price tag or firm availability date are both a bit …
HP Unveils 10-inch ‘TouchPad’ Tablet, New Smartphones
Apple, Android, and now HP—the tablet wars are about to get really interesting. HP’s going after an Apple-like ecosystem with its phones and tablets all running on the same software platform, Palm’s “WebOS” (HP bought Palm last year, if you recall).
Here’s what was announced today:
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