HP Touchpad for £89

[Del Lardo]

http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/touchpad-tablet-pc-16gb-10834901-pdt.html

£89 down from £350, it's going to be a redundant platform pretty damn quickly but for £89 it looks like a good deal for e-mail, internet, facebook etc.

[Mark]

Looks like a pricing error, or such a small amount of stock that they were just clearing the shelf. Anyway, it's gone already.

[Del Lardo]

Looks like a pricing error, or such a small amount of stock that they were just clearing the shelf. Anyway, it's gone already.



Not a pricing error, a decision to dump all the stock, just wondering how much of a hit HP & Dixons are taking on this.....

Slightly annoyed as I fancied playing with one and for £89 I could have given it to my gran but secure site crashed out 3 times dumping me back at the start until there was no stock :( Still I can't care too much or I'd wonder down the road to PC World to see if they have any ;D

[Dymetrie]

Still showing on Bestbuy...

http://www.bestbuy.co.uk/product/1000161200/hp-touchpad-97-tablet-with-webos-16gb-and-wifi.aspx

[Del Lardo]

Good spot, 16GB is out of stock but 32GB is still there for £115.

http://www.bestbuy.co.uk/product/1000161201/hp-touchpad-97-tablet-with-webos-32gb-and-wifi.aspx

[Mark]

Very tempting, but then I bought a Joggler and never bothered getting anywhere with it, so best not. :)

[Del Lardo]

Went out of stock whilst I was waiting for the Secure website :(

[leowyatt]

Personally wouldn't bother with it :) I like the OS but the touchpad is very slow. Reports were the touchpad team installed webos onto an iPad 2 and it was apparently twice as fast.

[petemc]

I've heard the hardware is at least 2 years old, hence the slowness.

Apparently it could have been *something* but they just gave up.

[leowyatt]

HP took far too long to get the thing to market, goes with the phones too.

[Mark]

That they did, but then so did a lot of others (BlackBerry for one, though at least I suspect they didn't launch on old tech).

Given Nokia's all-but-ditching of Symbian, HP's move wasn't really surprising. Let's face it - Palm were on their last legs before HP 'rescued' them. The Pre itself was also too late.

Just the three big players now - Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. With them all at each others' throats over patents there's no way a small player is likely to hang around (Chinese rip-off clones excepted).

[Garp]

I would bother with it simply because there is a large drive to get Android on it. Qualcom are already demonstrating it's perfectly possible.

Cheap, very decent spec, 90 quid tablet, running Android? Yes please!

[leowyatt]

Well yes if you could put Android on it then yes it could be quite interesting :)

[Kitten]

I'll stick with my ipad ta :D