One last batch of TouchPads on the way, HP says

By on Aug 30, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Tablets August 30, 2011

HP’s public relations manager Mark Budgell wrote a blog post Tuesday afternoon confirming a report from Reuters earlier in the day in which HP vice president Todd Bradley suggested the company would resurrect its TouchPad tablet. “Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand,” Budgell wrote. “We don’t know exactly when these units will be available or how many we’ll get, and we can’t promise we’ll have enough for everyone. We do know that it will be at least a few weeks before you can purchase.” HP says it will manufacture the tablets during the fourth fiscal quarter of this year, which ends on October 31st. It is unclear if the new batch will be priced from $99, which had previously resulted in a quick fire sale of the tablet.

[Via AllThingsD]

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  • Anonymous

    Meh you lost my respect HP take your tablet and shove it where the sun don’t shine. If you weren’t willing to fight you should have kept your hands off of WebOs

    • http://twitter.com/EwanTouma Ewan Touma

      You’re just mad because you didn’t get a $99 HP Touchpad. Sorry.

      • Anonymous

        I think he’s mad because HP sucks $#*! and ruined what could have been with their own incompetence.

      • Anonymous

        bingo you win a free plastic Droid

      • Yomama

        i actually snagged one from WORST BUY and couldnt be happier (with the touchpad)….to that end i just want to say that the touchpad is not the end all be all of tablets but it does get the job done to much of my satisfaction.  I couldnt be happier with this deal.

        and yes i am writting this on my touchpad :)

    • creativeD

      You’re damn right!!! They just released the device and after 3 months they give up on it, and the thing is that reviewers say that WebOS is the only IOS killer or what seems to be the greatest competition to Apple.

  • Anonymous

    PUT ME ON YOUR WAITING LIST!!!! ( I JUST NEED ONE)

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    A dead OS?  No thanks.  And for those who want to put DROID OS on it?  Completely lame. 

    • Darren Rockwell

      What the fuck is DROID OS?

      • http://twitter.com/EwanTouma Ewan Touma

        He means Android smarty pants.

      • Ashley Keith

        but i love my motoblur OS /s

      • Anonymous

        LOL… killer.

      • Anonymous

        Trollolololol

    • http://mitchs.posterous.com Mitch Samuels

      It is not a dead OS. HP is stopping HARDWARE. WebOS will still he supported

    • Gerardo Gudino

      Who said anything about the OS being dead?  HP?

    • Drew

      Samsung is thinking about purchasing it so as usual Norm… add that to the list of dumb shit that comes out of your mouth that you’re wrong about.

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      It is funny how much the “Droid OS” thing bothers people.

    • Yomama

      what about galaxy s 2 OS….that shizz must be killer

      haha

  • Anonymous

    So they’re making another production run on a product they’ve declared dead and are likely losing a lot of money by charging $99 for it?

    Apotheker’s doing a really good job.

    • Gerardo Gudino

      From what I’ve read, they have some parts and materials left and it would be cheaper and better business wise to make one last batch and sell them, then to just waste all those parts and materials.  Got it?  Good.

    • Ashley Keith

      and yet they are flooding the market with 100s of thousands of these devices. sounds like a good user base for OS / apps / ads / etc additions to ppl who can’t afford ipads

  • http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/ BoyRetardedReport

    I would totally but one for $99!!

    WebOS is super cool :D

  • Anonymous

    Like a previous article stated, I imagine it’s just not to piss off suppliers that they will need in the future that were affected by discontinuing it. Sitting on parts and then screwed by HP, that’s not nice.

  • http://twitter.com/jrcrow79 EK

    I heard HP is workin on the apps section for the device..so no its not really dead

  • n00btastic

    Don’t worry guys, this fish has a lot more flopping left in it before it goes to the frying pan.  I expect to see dramatic indecision followed by bold decisions followed by even bolder take-backs.  One executive declares war, another announces peace.  Before the end of this, HP’s business will be in producing leather seats for BMW and desktop printers that wirelessly connect to former WebOS devices.  I for one am buckling my seat belt.  This is going to be the year of the roller coaster for HP.  

  • Anonymous

    HP: We instil in-confidence into everyone!

  • Anonymous

    Great. Ill be on fucking deployment so definitely no TP for me. 

  • http://twitter.com/Waazzupppp Ron Lunsford

    Sure, they have like 5 billion people pissed off right now because they ordered – were confirmed to have one – then a week later they get an email saying their order was cancelled… Not good for the old business reputation there…

    I think they would be smart to bring back the mobile device division, but they need to actually release some products. The Veer was a nice baby phone, but not much substance… The Pre3 never made market… The Pre2 was still a Palm product and the TouchPad was never given a serious chance – mainly due to the fact there was no supporting devices for all the coolness that was the TouchPad… (Touch to Sync, wireless printing, etc…)

    Hopefully the droppage of 200,000 devices on the market will give WebOS a boost in the ‘marketability’ area and they make some low end devices to keep the products flowing. I won’t hold my breath though…

  • Me

    iPad ROCKS. All other tablets are wannabe iPads. Nuff said!

    • http://twitter.com/computer_tweets KW

      My TP runs flash  Does your iPad?

      • Anonymous

        Who cares flash sucks

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Leo-Salcedo/657090491 Leo Salcedo

        it’s ok…i know ur in denial!

      • Yomama

        u mad brah!

      • Me

        No and I don’t care one bit.

    • Anonymous

      Fuck you iFag

  • http://twitter.com/computer_tweets KW

    I was lucky to get a 64gb TP for 250.  I’m using it right now.  It has dual 1.5proc.  The only thing missing is streaming Netflix.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure HP is a really nice company, but if one assumes that they’re losing money on every $99 TouchPad, then they are most certainly not making one more batch to meet “unfulfilled demand”.

    They’re making one more batch because they still have extra inventory in some form or another and they determined they’d lose less money by fully manufacturing them.

    Having said that, at $99 it’s a great deal, especially considering you can run Android on these things.

  • Greekmanx

    can I point out it was not 3 months it was less and they are not cancel Web OS they are getting out of the hardware game that’s it.

  • Anonymous

    ummmm-here’s betting they don’t go for $99.

    • Anonymous

      Nah, I don’t think they would do that – can you imagine the loud “Thud!” and the horrendous negative PR it would generate as all those now-more-expensive TouchPads did NOT sell at all? They would TOTALLY undo any “good will” they got with the really cheap ones.

  • Charlene Monday

    I JUST READ THAT EVERYONE THAT SIGNED UP FOR AN EMAIL ALERT WAS NOTIFIED . THAS NOT TRUE BECAUSE I SIGNED AND DID NOT GET AN EMAIL. THANKS HP

  • Jduk

    That just shows that HP is STILL clueless what customers wants. HP products are half-broken, lousy designed piece of junk that cannot compete with that kinda usual price tag. But with $99, oh yes why not, people would buy this junk for everyday usage. Bye HP.

  • http://twitter.com/demonstrator demonstrator

    I think HP jumping out of the mobile market just because it didn’t kill in 16 months is pretty short sighted. You don’t just beat 30% market share in phones and 85% market share in tablets in such a short amount of time, and you have completely killed consumer confidence. Absolutely mind boggling. Hang in there and make the buyers you do have happy. The iPhone, albeit what it is today, did not make it to where it is today overnight. It took 5-6 years to assert it’s dominance. Fools you are, HP. Fools. 

  • http://twitter.com/mel_vin Nelson Vieira

    Even if it is/going to be a dead OS, as a “gadget” you cant go wrong  at 99 for a media device.  Dont regret my purchase at all.

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