If, like us, you spectacularly failed to bag one of the bargain HP TouchPads that were sold at prices as astonishingly low as £89 recently, HP has offered a glimmer of hope.
There’s been some frantic shopping around online as consumers try and bag themselves a bargain HP Pre 3 handset, but after the initial stock sold out on seconds, we’ve been keeping an eye on their website for updates.
A host of big name websites have been reduced to a crawl (or have bombed out altogether) as frenzied bargain hunters scramble to pick up a HP Touchpad tablet at an astonishingly cheap ‘firesale’ price.
With the untimely demise of HP’s interest in webOS as a hardware platform, UK retailers have starting offloading the HP Touchpad at outrageously low prices (scroll down for listing) .
This is really sad news. HP has announced that they plan to discountinue operations for webOS devices, which include the TouchPad and webOS phones like the Veer and HP Pre 3 handset which has just half-heartedly launched in Europe.
It looks like HP has inherited Palm’s penchant for extremely modest product promotion, with the new HP Pre 3 silently turning up in their European store with not even a parp, let alone a fanfare of publicity.
HP has announced that its webOS TouchPad tablet is set to go on sale next month in Europe, the UK and the US.
Apps may still be painfully thin on the ground for the webOS platform, but we’ve been blown away by this video showing the super-slick HP Touchpad in action.
We’re still gushing vast torrents of love for the fantastic, silky smooth webOS mobile operating system, but we’ve remained disappointed with the glacial growth of the accompanying app store for the HP Pre.
Even the most fanatical Palm Pre/Pixi fans would have to admit that when it comes to UK-based apps, the webOS cupboard has remained rather bare compared to the well stocked shelves of rivals like Android and iOS.
Although there’s quite a lot to love about the dinky HP Palm Veer smartphone, we’re not sure we can match the exuberant enthusiasm felt by SkyTV’s Mark Bunting who raves about the wee fella in a video review.
The third of the three webOS-powered devices announced by HP last night is the HP Veer, a mere slip of a smartphone at just 54.5mm x 84.0mm x 15.1mm.
HP – now the proud owners of Palm – have unveiled details of the third iteration of the bijou webOS powered handset, the Pre 3. Read more…
There’s been a vast cavalcade of Android tablets trotting over the hills in the recent weeks, but the one tablet that’s got us more interested than most is the upcoming one from HP/Palm running their fabulous webOS multitasking operating system.
Up until now the retails have been rather hazy, but precentral.net has got its hands on what it reckons is the lowdown on HP’s new wonder tablet, codenamed Topaz.
The Official App Catalog for webOS for the US has been officially reported as nudging past the landmark total of 5,000 available apps
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