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HP offering up refunds for Pre3 and TouchPads
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HP has confirmed it will be offering refunds to all customers that bought TouchPads and Pre 3 phones before the huge price drop.
Over on its official site, it has listed the refunds available for every model of its ill-fated webOS devices, with customers offered the difference between that which they paid for the device and the new low shelf tag.
It's an odd move to see HP essentially giving away money – the Pre 3 was barely on sale in the UK and the TouchPad wasn't a huge seller, so the uprising against the price drop was never likely to be a massive problem to deal with, but the computing giant is clearly looking to draw a line under this with a gesture of goodwill.
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HP TouchPad backorders shipping in 6 to 8 weeks
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HP sent an email to customers today, informing them of a 6- to 8-week wait for the backordered HP TouchPad tablets. The tablet has been sold out at retailers and on HP’s website after the $99 fire sale that followed HP’s announcement of discontinuing WebOS. Many customers that ordered through HP at the fire sale pricing are still waiting for the device as HP plans one last production run.
Rumors began last week that HP would produce another batch of HP TouchPads or even possibly resurrect the tablet. The supply side was stuck with excess inventory, said to include components for 100,000 units of the HP TouchPad Go, a 7-inch version that will no longer see the light of day. HP promptly confir...
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HP TouchPad is featured in Staple's upcoming sales flyer; still priced at $499.99 though
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Always on the prowl, especially when just about every place is selling the HP TouchPad for $99.99, one of readers noticed that the webOS powered tablet is going to be featured in Staple’s upcoming sales flyer for the week starting on September 4th.
However, after looking at the advertisement online through their site, it’s still showing a hefty price tag of $499.99 attached to it – as opposed to the discounted price that everyone else is offering. From the looks of it too, the tablet can only purchased in stores seeing that online ordering isn’t available with it. Nevertheless, things could very well change over the next couple of days before the “sale” is given a go on Sunday.
Although we c...
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HP mistakenly tries to sue one of its own partners
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If we had to describe the mess that HP got involved in with one single term, facepalm would probably be the most suitable one. In what seems to be a mess stirred up by miscommunication, the company just attempted to sue a German business that it had already partnered up with.
Long story short, Greenova Services GmbH was hired by HP to handle refunds to German customers who purchased an HP TouchPad before the tablet's price got slashed. However, many local medias claimed that Greenova's services were a fraud since submitting a refund application online requested users' bank information. Eventually, HP filed a lawsuit against the company seemingly unaware that it was trying to sue one of its c...
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HP TouchPad getting a software update?
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Hmm… this is… kinda… strange. Only a week after we said webOS is pretty much dead, HP hinted its TouchPad may get a software update. And it’s not the software release that would make the tablet run Android (CyanogenMod is used for that), but an actual webOS-based update.
We’ve no idea what will be included in any such software, nor whether it will actually be released. If that happens, the update will “enhance the platform and add functionality” to the TouchPad. HP’s spokesperson said those words in a reply to email from CNet.
In the meantime, if you own the TouchPad, you’ll be glad to know that Quickoffice HD for webOS has been updated and now supports document editing, while also adding ne...
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HP Pre 3 UK price drop outed on official site
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It looks like the long-awaited HP Pre 3 UK price has been outed on the official site, but won't be there for long.
We spoke to the official representatives, who told us that the page was 'likely going to be taken down soon' and the Pre 3 won't be put on sale directly.
However, and take this following statement with a HUGE pinch of salt, the chap we spoke to on the phone said that high street retailers 'such as The Carphone Warehouse and PC World' will be taking stock of the phone, although couldn't confirm the price would be the same.
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HP: Limited supply of TouchPads on the way
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Still waiting for your bargain TouchPad to ship? Good news, as HP's just confirmed that a "limited supply" of the webOS slates are on their way, and they'll land in "a few weeks." In an update to a blog post from yesterday, the company confirmed that it will manufacture an additional "limited quantity" of TouchPads in Q4 -- presumably to meet existing backorders. Those of you who've signed up for email notification will receive an update and one-time offer today (peep it after the break), and a followup when more details are known. For live updates peep the two Twitter accounts linked under more coverage, and to get the full rundown of HP's plans, hit the source link below.
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HP may resurrect TouchPad, head of PC business says
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On August 18th, HP announced that it was killing off its webOS devices business and considering a possible spin-off of its personal systems group (PSG). The head of HP’s PC business, executive vice president Todd Bradley, discussed the TouchPad and his company’s PC business with Reuters, explaining that a spin-off could be the “best value” for HP’s investors instead of an outright sale to competitors such as Acer or Lenovo. “Regardless of what happens, we’re the largest PC company in the world,” Bradley explained. “We need everybody energized, and while this isn’t business as usual, we need people to go out and sell products every day,” he said, noting that HP will still remain a major custo...
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HP TouchPad component suppliers may be now sitting on huge pile of unused tablet parts
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As every gadget aficionado is already well aware of, HP pulled the plug on its webOS-powered hardware leaving mountains of unsold devices collecting dust in retailers' warehouses, as well as in its own. In order to move all that inventory, the manufacturer decided to sell the HP TouchPad and Pre3 at dirt cheap prices hoping to get back at least some of its investment. However, besides recovering from its loss, there seems to be yet another issue that HP is now obliged to take care of.
According to a report by DigiTimes, HP's hardware component suppliers are now sitting on a huge pile of leftover parts, most of which were meant to be used in the 7-inch HP TouchPad Go tablet. Specific numbers ...
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HP TouchPad to receive another OTA update, claims HP
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Responding to a query by CNET, HP said that HP TouchPad owners can look forward to an over-the-air update that will improve the current state of the webOS-powered tablet. "We expect that HP TouchPad owners can look forward to an over-the-air update that will enhance the platform and add functionality and a growing applications catalog." The company provided no time frame as to when consumers might expect such an update.
While sales of the first webOS tablet were very weak initially, HP's decision to kill the platform and offer the tablet at massively reduced prices initiated a a sales frenzy, the likes of which are typically reserved for Apple products. This suggests that there is certainly ...
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Quickoffice update brings document editing to the TouchPad
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Well, we knew it was coming, and folks, it's finally here -- the promised update to Quickoffice HD that brings document editing to HP's webOS slate. Available gratis for TouchPad owners, the overhaul enables text formatting in Word docs, in addition to enabling cell and function editing in Excel spreadsheets. Unfortunately, editing of Powerpoint presentations is sorely lacking, but that's nothing another update can't cure, right?
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Forbes: Microsoft benefits most from demise of WebOS
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Forbes magazine have a piece up on HP’s recent canning of WebOS, and are spelling out what we in the community already suspect – that Microsoft and WP7 are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries of WebOS’s demise.
In light of Google’s recent Motorola deal and Apple’s unwillingness to license its iOS to third parties, we believe that Microsoft will be one of the primary beneficiaries of the death of webOS. We currently have a $28 Trefis price estimate for Microsoft, which implies a 10% upside to the current market price.
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Microsoft is making the most of webOS’s demise. The company has been wooing the abandoned webOS developers with free phones and goodies in order to attract them to the Wind...
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Samsung said to be considering webOS acquisition from HP
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Following rumors that Samsung was considering a purchase of Hewlett-Packard’s PC business — rumors that Samsung would later deny — DigiTimes is having another go at this potential unholy union. This time around, however, the site claims Samsung is eying HP’s webOS platform instead of its PC business. DigiTimes on Monday reported that Samsung has hired HP’s ex-vice president of PSG marketing Raymond Wah to head up Samsung’s PC business. The report goes on to claim that Samsung is also “considering purchasing webOS to compete head on against Apple and Google, according to sources from notebook players.” The South Korea-based electronics giant is clearly having issues with Android right now. De...
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Samsung webOS rumors reignite amid ex-HP PC VP grab
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Speculation that Samsung will purchase webOS from HP continues, with the latest whispers out of notebook manufacturers suggesting that it’s the little-loved smartphone and tablet platform that the Korean firm has its eye on, not HP’s PC business. Samsung has already snapped up the former VP of HP’s PC marketing team, DigiTimes reports, to give it a boost in its notebook sales; now, so the talk goes, it’s considering a play for webOS.
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HP TouchPad treated to CyanogenMod-flavored Gingerbread
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With $99 firesales sweeping HP TouchPad inventories across the country, we can only envy you if you managed to snatch yours. There’s a tiny little issue with the tablet, though, it’s running webOS and the future of webOS is uncertain at best. But what if it could run Android? We weren’t the first to think of this - actually, we already reported about the first case of porting Google’s OS to the probably most affordable tablet out there.
But while we’ve already seen a somewhat limited version of Froyo on the TouchPad, now it seems that the CyanogenMod team is closer to porting a rough version of CyanogenMod 7 on Gingerbread 2.3.5 to the 9.7-inch slate.
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