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The Downward Spiral: HP Pre3 is not coming to US, will be steeply discounted in Europe.

We just got off the phone with our Paris, France associates. We just asked them to buy some HP Pre3 when it goes on clearance sale in France. If it would only cost $75, then we would get a few of the HP Pre3. We would’ve bought HP Pre3 here in the US, unfortunately HP has just canceled the US launch as reported by PC Magazine.

Bear in mind that the France version of HP Pre3 supports only Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA (900/1900/2100) and Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz. That means it is compatible with T-Mobile USA 3G network but not on AT&T’s. On AT&T it would work only on the Edge network.

On related news, HP will be selling the remaining inventory of its webOS phones at discounted prices. HP Pre2 will be sold for $49.

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HP TouchPad is sold out at HP.com.

Well, it didn’t take long considering HP was having so much trouble with their server the whole Saturday and Sunday morning. HP.com has sold out of TouchPad.

If you are looking to get your hands on this recently discontinued webOS tablet at a steep discount, you might want to check Best Buy or other retailers. Best Buy is clearing out its TouchPad inventory in lieu of sending them back to HP as the big box retailer intended to do earlier.

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HP TouchPad 16GB is sold out at HP.com.

HP is now fresh out of the 16GB model of its recently discontinued TouchPad.

If you are looking into getting HP TouchPad at a steeply discounted price, check your local stores early in the morning. Office Depot is reportedly shipping all of its remaining HP TouchPad stock to their stores on Monday August 22nd, 2011. A few Staples stores in Southern California are reportedly to have limited quantities of HP TouchPad.

 

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Oops, I accidentally ordered 3 HP TouchPads.

Thanks to the super slowness of HP server, I apparently ordered 3 HP TouchPads. Well, in retrospect the total order equals the price of one HP TouchPad prior to August 19th. Let’s see if HP would fulfill the order.

UPDATE:
HP Site is still slow riddled with errors. No wonder, it is running on IIS.

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The Hunt for Red HP TouchPad.

Sadly I was spending most of Saturday hunting for the freshly discontinued product known as HP TouchPad. Nothing at Best Buy as the salesperson said that they are sending all the unsold inventory back to HP. Office Depot only had a few units in the morning and all sold out as the remaining stock will be delivered to the store on Monday morning.

As predicted, HP’s own online store is experiencing a meltdown. I tried placing an order only to see script errors as far as the shipping address confirmation.

I bet a lot of people wanting to get a $99 tablet computing device. That seems to be the pricing that makes people want one. Unfortunately manufacturers would have to eat up the cost.

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editor’s note:
There is no such thing as “Red HP TouchPad”, it is a play on “The Hunt of Red October”.

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The Future of webOS.

I have the feeling that webOS team were just as surprised as many of us when HP announced the exit out of webOS hardware. “The next chapter for webOS” post (and email to webOS developers) seem to back up my assertion.

As many of you are aware, we are currently scheduled to hold many developer events around the world. We are planning to continue with these events, however, due to the recent announcements; the nature of them will change. These updates will be posted on our events registration site this coming week. We are eager to present to you the updated strategy for webOS and to hear your feedback.

It seems to be the case of decisions made on the management level without any inputs from webOS team.

In addition to that, AppleInsider and Electronista noted that resellers begun clearing out HP TouchPad priced as low as $99 and $149 for 16GB and 32GB model respectively.

Microsoft is now actively pursuing published webOS developers to Windows Phone 7 platform.