Ipad and Tablet PC News Australia
Australian Ipad and tablet PC News
We've extensively covered the Rise and Fall of the HP Touchpad at tablet news. Starting out with so much promise, hitting a wall with HP's announcement that they would cease selling the Touchpad, then being reborn by a project to port Android onto the Touchpad. Yes, we've seen everything. Here's some interesting reading covering the short life and times of the HP Touchpad. HP Touchpad – … [Read more...]
HP announced recently its plan to produce another order of HP TouchPad tablets, which are supposively due to reach store shelves before October 31. In their August Annoucement, HP announced it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. They stated at the time, the devices have not met internal milestones and financial targets. They did … [Read more...]
The HP TouchPad since its demise and price drop to $99 has become a hot ticket item and HP Touchpad owners are waiting in anticipation for Android Support, and yes it is getting closer by the day. Developers too have been working hard in getting Android working on the Touchpad and the CyanogenMod team are leading the charge. Since virtually becoming the main team in porting Android across … [Read more...]
UPADTE - Click here for the latest update on CyanogenMod's progress in getting Android running on the HP Touchpad. Touchdroid, one of the groups who was developing Android for the HP Touchpad, has released a pre-alpha version of Android for the touchpad. The team said it is early days and many features such as Wi-Fi don't work as yet, however it seems that the build has been … [Read more...]
The HP Touchpad was killed off by HP as quickly as it was released. With the amount of bargain basement HP Touchpads being released worldwide, consumers are waiting for the successful porting of Android across to the Touchpad. Delroy Dean in the Article below compares the Touchpad to Android, we hope that in the not too distant future we'll be discussing more HP Touchpad Android and Less HP … [Read more...]
Can the HP Touchpad now support Android? Well according to the team at CyanogenMod, who creates customized builds of Android for mobile devices, there has been success in porting over a version of Android that can run on HP's now discontinued tablet. We recently reported the demise of the HP Touchpad globally, with the firesale of $98 HP touchpads in Australia making it one of the fastest … [Read more...]
Mobicity expect to receive a new shipment of HP Touchpads in September 2011. If you missed out on the Harvey Norman $98 deal, then try for the next deal, expected to be set at $249 (still a $200 saving off the original price). However, reports from Channelnews.com.au suggest that Harvey Norman will not get new stock of the ill-fated, $98 Hewlett-Packard TouchPad tablet, after HP announced it … [Read more...]
Have HP done a backflip on the shelving of the HP Touchpad. The Touchpad lives on - for now. At the HP Communities NextBench blog, signs that maybe HP are having a change of heart are becoming clear. Mark Budgell stated yesterday, "Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand. We don’t know … [Read more...]
Talking about bargain bin special. If you can't afford an IPad2 or don't want a Kimble, why not buy the HP Touchpad for $98 at Harvey Norman. The 16GB model is selling for $98, down from $495, while the 32GB model will retail for $148, down from $599. The devices will ship with a full 12-month warranty. For $98 bucks, at the very least you'll have a video player, a few apps and a … [Read more...]
After just four days on sale in the Australian Marketplace, HP has killed off it's touchpad/ In an international press release, HP said it would "discontinue operations for WebOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and WebOS phones". Retailing between $500 and $600, the touchpad failed to attract the attention in the flooded tablet marketplace in Australia dominated by the IPad and … [Read more...]
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