The HP Touchpad proved there is a low-end tablet market, albeit at unsustainably low prices.
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After releasing the HP TouchPad, Hewlett-Packard learned that a lower price can change everything.
Unfortunately for fans of Palm's last hurrah, the project's webOS port died with the HP Touchpad.
Another decision left to be confirmed is the axing of the HP TouchPad.
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Since its launch, July 1, the HP TouchPad has had a difficult history.
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Under Apotheker, HP released three new webOS-powered devices: the HP TouchPad tablet and HP Veer and Pre 3 smartphones.
You have to say that the HP TouchPad, which Hewlett-Packard has described as being the first to run WebOS, also looks mighty impressive.
Hewlett Packard has just announced their new tablet, the HP TouchPad.
This week's release of the HP TouchPad, the first device other than a handset to feature webOS, aptly demonstrates the promise and perils of HP's adopted operating system.
The 4-inch devices seems to lie somewhere between a Pre3 and HP Touchpad, aping the hardware specifications of the former while adopting the latter's software version: webOS 3.0.
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Lack of a critical mass of apps was one of the undoings of the HP TouchPad, and nobody, on the software or hardware side, wants to see that happen again.
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Should you buy an HP TouchPad?
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That won't stop dedicated fans, however -- Phoenix International Communications plans to resurrect webOS ACL. Taking the project to Kickstarter, the team is showing an early build on an HP Touchpad, seamlessly running Android apps in cards alongside native webOS applications.
In an extraordinarily convenient turn of events, one buyer of a firesale-priced HP TouchPad at Best Buy a couple of days ago claims his came out of the box with an extra special treat -- it's running Android, 2.2 to be exact.
On July 1, HP launched the TouchPad.
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That led HP to discontinue the TouchPad after less than two months on the market.
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The downside is a finicky touchpad -- HP's machine is clearly superior in that regard.
The most recent member of the early announcement club is HP, which detailed its TouchPad at an early Feb. event.
Just look at HP, which announced its TouchPad tablet and other new webOS devices to much fanfare at a big event in February of 2011, but didn't get them out the door until that summer (with the Pre 3 not even making it to the US market).
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Despite those growth prospects as well as the migration toward higher priced smartphones from mobile phones, in August 2011 HP announced plans to kill the TouchPad and WebOS smartphone business it acquired when it bought Palm in April-2010.
No, scratch that, the PC company that HP might spin off might revive the TouchPad computer.
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In another cross-products tie-in, the TouchPad features wireless printing to HP printers.
Serbinis says HP asked Kobo to develop for the TouchPad but the company was so busy creating apps for Android tablets that it declined the offer.
On August 18, HP said it was killing its WebOS-based gadgets, including the TouchPad.
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Only a few days ago, powerhouse tech company HP threw in the towel, withdrawing from the mobility business and discontinuing its TouchPad tablet, launched less than 3 months ago.
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In addition, HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones.
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