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Exophase

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Anyone else pick up one of these for $99? I don't have a tablet (or even a smartphone for that matter) and normally I wouldn't be interested in buying one, but at this outrageous price point even I couldn't resist. I get that this product was put to death (along with much of HP's divisions), but I can't imagine what they were thinking in dumping them at such an enormous price reduction. I'd be surprised if they lost anything less than hundreds of millions of dollars on this.

Meanwhile, I'll finally have a dual-core reasonable fast ARM with NEON and a pretty nice sounding GPU, and with all the hundreds of thousands of other people whom I'm sure picked one up it'll probably receive something in the way of enthusiast software options. It's not Cortex-A9 but I can't really complain.
 
Dang... I would have loved to but can't get through anymore and I can't reach the phone customer service either. If anyone has one of the 16gb models and wants to sell it to me in germany, please pm me.
 
I accidentally ordered two from the carphone warehouse, but whether they'll honour it or not I'm not sure yet. No email confirmation has come through.


Every online store in the UK has crashed out pretty much at the moment.

HP has broken the internets!
 
Maybe this is all part of an elaborate trolling. An elaborate several hundred million dollar trolling.
 
Exophase said:
Maybe this is all part of an elaborate trolling. An elaborate several hundred million dollar trolling.
Haha. Still no order confirmation, so I assume they were out of stock.
 
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Natty. Just got order confirmation, though I still think it'll probably be cancelled. Here's hoping otherwise!
 
With all the problems people have had I'm starting to worry that my order won't go through either (onSale on Amazon, placed yesterday).. hopefully I'll find out soon if so.
 
I was in a store yesterday afternoon (Harvey Norman, for those Australians playing along at home) in time to be able to grab one if I wanted to. I don't want or need an iPad or the like, so I'd never even given any thought to an also-ran like the TouchPad - especially since it's essentially now condemned to a slow lingering death...

...but for $98, I was tempted, I tells ya. (Yeah, it was a dollar cheaper here)

Luckily I managed to control myself and walk out without, but of the people in the store at the time I was certainly in the small minority.


Besides, I've got a Pandora on order. I've got enough heartache already. :)
 
online merchants in usa have been virtually ddos'd by all the orders from people minutes after starting the sale. i may have managed to pick up anywhere from 0-6 of these
 
The Pre 3 might face a similar death-by-sale! $75 apparently for an unlocked unit in Europe. I don't care if HP are dropping it, £50 for this thing is crazy low. Still waiting on the links to go up.
Source.
 
So it turns out my order probably won't be honored, although I haven't seen the cancellation e-mail yet. It's clear that the seller (onSale) messed up with stock numbers.

After hearing that you can chroot Ubuntu 11.04 on it and that there was already work on an Android port this is pretty disappointing. If anyone here managed to get one let us know.
 
CPW ORDERS READ anyone who got a confirmation email last night (the 1st one) will have their order processed today and stock has been allocated to them.

I ordered from CPW and got this email so hopefully I've got one!
 
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Yes, it's poorly done and probably in bad taste, but I saw it on HUKD and it amused me.
 
Maybe if DaMummy gets more than one he'll sell me one!

.. but probably not.

EDIT: Nevermind, went ahead and got one Buy it Now off of eBay for $222. There'll probably be others for $100 here and there, but it's not worth the headache following it and risking getting potentially screwed again. If a miracle happens and I do get the one from onSale I'll sell it back, probably to someone else who got screwed by them.
 
Sadly I was on a boat when this broke, and on a bus until Monday night. Didn't find out about the great sale until Tuesday morning, and by then it was way too late. So if anyone gets a couple spare and wants to make a quick buck... :D
Ebay is currently flooded, going rate seems to be about $260. I'm not sure if I want to buy one now at this price while the flood is on, or if I want to wait until the hype dies down a bit and hope that people start dropping their price to unload.
 
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