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Originally Posted by petermillard
HP TouchPad (wonder how they came up with that name, lol...) looks nice. Wonder if they mean 'Summer' as in May, or 'Summer' as in September... Battery life would be good to know, along with price of course.
Favourite comment from the Engadget piece - "it's just a big Pre"  |
mine too, but hey we all have credit cards bigger than the Pre. I can't even hold a Pre (perhaps the worst name EVER for a device
) let alone use the thing. I mean the iPhone/Touch devices are small but they are down right huge compared to the homunculus that is the HP Pre.
And oh yeah, it would be nice to know the prices. But didn't someone post a link to one online seller showing the 16gb version at $499 list? To me that is still $200 over priced for that capacity. But as HP has to make the money purely off hardware it might be a fact of life that these devices are going to open at $499. Heck if they could make a 32gb version at about $399 then there could be a lot of industry scrambling to counter PLUS a lot of the crappy rebranders out there would just die already. I think the rebranders/rebadger companies out there are one of the biggest roadblocks to any real advances in the market segment as not only do the bring very marginal devices to the table they also dilute the production capacity causing increases in the fees charged to make the name brand devices. But if there were more competition on the production line front then we might see some added pricing flexibility for the various brands. But right not I don't think the price points are all that attractive. I mean look at the Xoom and the Eee 121 devices at a mega-buck give or take $100 and a few hours battery life.