HP Touchpad Thread (NO Discussion Of Personal Buying/Selling)

rco2000 wrote: »

HP TouchPad (16GB with Wi-Fi, Black)
SKU: 209138, Mfr: FB405UA#ABB, Brand: HP
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€ 419.99
If you place a pre-order for this product now, we will not ship the product or charge your credit card without confirming you still wish to proceed when stock arrives. There are no cancellation charges.

Pre-order to BE FIRST

Just received an email ex expansys:

Hello,



for the moment we do not know the price as our suppliers don’t offer it at discount prices at least not at this time so your order is on hold till we will have the confirmation.



You card has not been charged but the money has been reserved according the value of the order.



we are in talks with suppliers right now but some far we got no reply or confirmation about this from them or HP directly if they will honour this rebate.



If this is confirmed, we will contact all backorders and let them know the new price and asked them to RE-confirm the orders before shipping them out.





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From another thread:

Dear Customer,

Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,

We are writing to let you know that the following item has been sent
to:

xxxxxx

using Royal Mail.

For more information about delivery estimates and any open orders, please visit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/your-account

Your order #xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (received August 23, 2011)

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Qty Item Price Delivery Subtotal

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Amazon.co.uk items (Sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L.):

1 HP TouchPad 9.7 inch Table... £89.00 1 £89.00

Dispatched via Royal Mail (estimated arrival date: August 25, 2011).

Maybe this is hope in the amazon orders!

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Insight have sold out. 1200 units over the lunch break.

Who is this Insight company - If they only sold out 1200 units in the last 2 hours? Why was it not posted here. :mad:

spongbob wrote: »

Who is this Insight company - If they only sold out 1200 units in the last 2 hours? Why was it not posted here. :mad:

It was.

spongbob wrote: »

Who is this Insight company - If they only sold out 1200 units in the last 2 hours? Why was it not posted here. :mad:

I posted a link with advance warning, I then posted as soon as the price drop was announced. Check if you don't believe me.

Amalgam wrote: »

Yeah, but human nature being what it is, the various crap hounds will be looking to milk the hysteria.

You can't buy anything close to this for €99, isn't the panel the same as the iPad? ..from the same hardware supplier?

I can see stable Ubuntu and various other builds popping up on this long before Android.

No idea if it has the same panel as the iPad, would be lying if said I did. How many people looking for these tablets can genuinely say they can install Ubuntu/Android OS on the tablet? Offhand I couldn't and I'd be more tech savy than most of my mates, I'm sure it's simple enough process if there's step by step instructions on a website though.

Anyway, good luck to everyone trying to get their hands on these, try not to waste too much of your time!!

joe316 wrote: »

anyone willing to chance expansys?

I dont see why not?

Ok I've heard back, nothing is happening today with CPW anyway at the very least.

spongbob wrote: »

Fingers and Toes crossed!!

The guy that got that email said he ordered at 23:30 - I ordered an hour later and havent heard anything. Anyone else get an amazon dispatch email ?

LightningBolt wrote: »

No idea if it has the same panel as the iPad, would be lying if said I did. How many people looking for these tablets can genuinely say they can install Ubuntu/Android OS on the tablet? Offhand I couldn't and I'd be more tech savy than most of my mates, I'm sure it's simple enough process if there's step by step instructions on a website though.

Anyway, good luck to everyone trying to get their hands on these, try not to waste too much of your time!!

I can but then again i've experience working with Android and Linux. I wouldn't expect too many "normal" people to be able to get Ubuntu let alone Android on to it for a while until the developers have it a bit more polished.

I'd say the vast majority will be stuck with WebOS unless a simple one click install method is developed.

i ordered 1 minit after 12. *touch wood*

spongbob wrote: »

Who is this Insight company - If they only sold out 1200 units in the last 2 hours? Why was it not posted here. :mad:

They are the wholesaler that 95% of Irish & UK companies get there HP stock off....

Davie89 wrote: »

Anyone see anywhere selling the cases at a reduced price??

LOL

i got a confirmation of my order around 0:02 i thnik. I was checkin amazon before 12 and it definetly had not been reduced until midnight

Come to think of it, the price before midnight was the full price Was it not??
I was online a good bit before 12 and didnt see it move down till after midnight? aswell as thousands of other boardsies folks