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Public service announcement: European HP TouchPad and Pre 3 pre-firesale customers please claim your refund

September 12, 2011 at 5:52 pm

Many of you were able to purchase the TouchPad at bottom prices, but what about the early adopters which found that their weeks old WebOS tablet, had dropped in value by multiples.

Well TouchPad and Pre 3 owners in the UK, France, Germany and Ireland can claim big refunds on their WebOS devices, provided they were activated before August 23rd. The refund that can be claimed is the initial price paid minus the fire sale price. For example, 16GB Touchpad owners can claim the difference between their purchase price and GBP89 in the UK or EUR99 in France, Germany and Ireland. Refunds are of-course also aplicable for 32GB and 64GB TouchPads and the Pre 3. More information can be found on HP’s Refund Program micro-site after the break.

The offer seems to be only available to customers in these four countries, at least for now.

HP is said to produce another run of HP TouchPads to satisfy US fire sale orders that were left hanging when the tablet was quickly sold-out. Europe is not yet said to join-in this second round of joy.
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HP TouchPad running Android 2.3.5 with full multi-touch (video)

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September 6, 2011 at 4:40 pm

Following HP’s discontinuation of the TouchPad and the ensuing fire sale of said tablet for as little as $99, a lot of lucky individuals managed to snap the nevertheless capable tablet. Although HP committed to continue to provide updates to webOS devices, few developers will be willing to port their applications to it, leaving ultimate users with few third-party apps to load onto their devices. Hence started the race of porting Android onto the TouchPad.

The most prominent team so far has been Team-Touchdroid, which regularly uploads videos onto YouTube with updates of their efforts. So far, they had been able to load Android but were lacking touchscreen drivers for any form of touch control. The latest video however, shows that the team has managed to get full 10-finger multi-touch support on a TouchPad running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. TouchPad owners anxiously waiting to see the results head over the break to view the video.
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HP TouchPad fire sale having another go at Newegg

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August 30, 2011 at 3:23 am

We’ve received the below email notification from a tipster. It seems that Newegg has a few HP TouchPads lying around and has decided to finally part with them. Newegg is offering the opportunity to those who had sent a stock auto-notification request for the TouchPad to purchase one at the fire sale price. Kudos to Newegg for devising a gentlemanly way of going about this.

Our question is, how much more of these are there, out there, and where is the 64GB TouchPad with the faster 1.5Ghz processor that HP was supposed to have be producing?
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HP Touchpad fire sale to reach the UK, prices starting £89

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August 22, 2011 at 12:09 pm

With HP dropping the price all the way down to $99 for the 16GB unit, the Touchpad has pretty much sold out wherever it was on sale in the US, giving WebOS a few last minutes in the spotlight. In fact the now discontinued tablet has become a bestselling item on Amazon US.

Well now the UK is set to join in the picking. A tweet from Dixons head of media relations Mark Webb has announced that the HP Touchpad will go on sale later today for £89 ($146) and £115 ($189) for the 16GB and 32GB versions. We’re also hearing that this will actually be the UK’s official sales price for the tablet and that Amazon UK will also soon be dropping prices to match.

We’ll try and let you know as soon as the sale prices hit, but you might also want to keep an eye on the links below as these things tend to sell out fast.

[Dixons, Amazon UK, Twitter]

UPDATE: The HP Touchpad is now on sale at Dixons.co.uk for £89 (16GB) and £115 (32GB). Link above, images after the break.

UPDATE 2: The Touchpad sold out quickly at Dixons online, you can get it at Currys as reserve and collect at your local store.
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