HP has set the price of its TouchPad tablet in North America with three-quarters reduced. The computermaker announced this week to stop making tablets. The tablet, which will start this month to $ 499 cost, now costs $ 99.
The new prices are published by HP to the partner companies that are tablet trying to sell, reports PreCentral. The computermaker asks retailers to the new prices as soon as possible. In Canada are therefore some retailers, such as chain Best Buy, which tablet for the new price of $ 99 offer. The 32GB version costs $ 149. Both products are probably far below the cost price sold. According to iSuppli the cost of the 16GB version around $ 300.
HP must his stocks, as this week announced plans to stop making smartphones and tablets with its own operating system, WebOS. Previously appeared messages that Best Buy and its stock of TouchPads back wanted to give to HP: the retail chain would only 25,000 of the 270,000 TouchPads have sold.
The market-leading pc-maker brought its first android tablet this summer with a suggested retail price of $ 499. The tablet was poorly received by reviewers and sells moderately. The TouchPad was February announced. The TouchPad, like the iPad, a 9.7″ capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1024×768 pixels. The tablet runs on a 1.2 Ghz dualcore soc from Qualcomm.
Incidentally, would the creators of WebOS are dissatisfied with the TouchPad and WebOS smartphones. From internal testing of HP would have been proven that WebOS twice as fast running on an iPad 2, reports The Next Web. Now Microsoft’s trying to WebOS developers over to Windows Phone to develop by offering free phones and training to offer.