HP, after killing of the TouchPad with a fire-sale, is making a gesture to the TouchPad community after leaving them for dead along with the rest of the WebOS community with the announcement of WebOS going open source. Reports of the TouchPad coming with Android pre-installed had been made after the TouchPad’s release, but RootzWiki [...]
The survival of WebOS has relied on the support of community activists entirely too much upon HP’s acquisition of the designer friendly operating system. With the TouchPad and Veer, HP saw little sales costing companies like BestBuy big-time and eventually causing stores to queue up for return. HP, instead of going back to the drawing board, announced they [...]
WebOS, which under HP ownership had huge potential in profits, recently had its entire branch shut down by HP after the flop of the HP TouchPad and Veer 4G, the former of the two selling out within hours of price reduction. The mass sales left us wondering if the price had been right, would numbers [...]
Upon the price reduction of the HP TouchPad, customers flocked to their local Staples, Office Depot, BestBuy, RadioShack, or WiFi network to get their filthy hands on the device. The tablet was bought all around until everywhere known to man, woman, and animal had been picked dry of the delectable, dying, TouchPad. People bought it [...]
Hewlett-Packard’s purchase of Palm wasn’t for any of the hardware, it was for WebOS which was quite successful whilst under Palm ownership. HP launched the TouchPad and Veer 4G in the recent months and has since then seen sales start out where they should never have even gone. Only a few days ago did HP decide to [...]
An anonymous source of ours sent us an insider memo to all RadioShack stores informing them that the HP TouchPad will be priced $99 USD “effective immediately.” With all stores from BestBuy to Office Depot sold out of the recently discontinued HP TouchPad, they are hard to find and now RadioShack may be your last [...]
Shortly following their recent discontinuation of the TouchPad and WebOS alike, HP is now offering the last of their TouchPads for as low as $99 a unit. The news unearthed after HP affiliate emails were sent out regarding the major pricecut. The online-only sale has already started in Canada in stores such as FutureShop, and [...]
Today marks a grim day for webOS, and possibly the death of all webOS devices because HP announced today that they are discontinuing operations for webOS devices. HP was the company to save webOS after HP bought palm on April 28th 2010. Things began to look up for HP and the WebOS partnership. Then on February 9th 2011 we saw a revealing of all [...]
The HP TouchPad just recently introduced to the US and a big upset has now become available to the United Kingdom at a starting price of £399 for the 16 GB WiFi version. The device is easiest found by using the HP online store which allows for purchase of the device by United Kingdom goers. Of course their [...]
PreCentral had a sneaky tipster who managed to get their hands on the specs sheet for the HP TouchPad that HP makes to inform consumers and resellers about the product they are looking at. The sheet is known to include the release date for the product on display that is visible currently on this leaked [...]
The HP Touchpad is perhaps one of the most mysterious tablets to be released yet. Besides for a few specs (9.7 in. screen, comes in 16GB or 32GB flavors, weighs 1.6lbs, etc.), there has not been much other information released about the tablet, including where, when, and how the device will be sold. However, an [...]
Palm debuted the Veer at a developer conference a few months back in San Francisco using its AT&T 4G capabilities and credit card size as a tool to attract customers. The Veer 4G being that small, when keyboard retracted may be a setback if you have large fingers, but mobile has never been so mobile [...]
Mobile devices are leading the technological revolution of the 21st century and the operating system they run on is just as important as the hardware. Operating systems vary from WebOS all the way to iOS. We go down where no blog has gone before to decide what OS is best. We will be matching the [...]
Palm/HP just released a family of products including the Palm TouchPad. The TouchPad runs WebOS and has a Snapdragon processor. Also they brought in video chatting, continued with their awesome multitasking, and more. The list of the Palm TouchPad specifications just goes on and on. The device is most impressive. See for yourself: Color Black Operating [...]
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