Tablet Price Wars? HP TouchPad Price Slashed Permanently to $399

HP for good gashed the price of its TouchPad tablet to $399, in a desperate move to rival the Apple iPad. HP's website now lists the TouchPad for $100 less than at set in motion, in what could signal a price war with other pill manufacturers, who are struggling to at least match the price of the iPad, the tab market leader by a high margin.

Horsepower has tried and true very hard to entice customers to choose its tablet over the iPad, or at least over other Android-based iPad competitors.

First, HP offered a $50 rebate, so a weekend-only $100 discount, and finally a Woot offer–a total of three price cuts in one week. But the working offers probably did not supporte sales sufficient, and now Horsepower has indefinitely cut the price of the 16GB TouchPad to $399, and to $499 for the 32GB mold. The price change is non reflected on the HP Medallion site at the time of writing.

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"Despite the selfsame short runway, we were pleased with customer response and, as a lead, have made the decisiveness to implement a $100 price drop on the U.S. lean Mary Leontyne Pric of the HP TouchPad, sanctionative both HP and our channel partners to be even more Leontyne Price combative in the mart," aforesaid Stephen DiFranco, HP's aged V.P. of personal systems, in a note to some retailers.

The TouchPad garnered mixed reviews when it was introduced in June. PCWorld reviewer Melissa J. Perenson wrote:

"The Horsepower TouchPad is the first tablet based on the WebOS mobile operating system, which HP acquired when it purchased Palm a year ago. But although WebOS shows around flashes of finger-friendly brilliance (it seems cold better suited for a pad than for the weensy screen of a call up), the TouchPad suffers from cumbersome design, performance lags, and a poor app selection."

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Orchard apple tree is expected to take ended 61 percent of the tablet market by the end of the year, with the remaining 39 per centum of the market left for Android tablets and different players, including HP, as asymptomatic as Research In Motion with its PlayBook. Here is the current pricing for the iPad 2:

The new turn down pricing of the TouchPad now brings the HP tablet down to the same price range as the Android-powered Iconia Tab from Acer ($395) and with the Eee Pad Transformer from Asus ($399). Acer antecedently cut the price of the Iconia Tab from $450.

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