where'd u get those :O

I kinda regret it because the Galaxy Tab looks promising.

Who knows, I'll give this a shot.

Anyone have problems charging the tablet through their desktop?

I can only charge it through the AC adapter :(

It probably requires a high current USB port, which most PCs don't have. It might trickle charge a bit when turned off though.

The Touchpad requires 2 amps ... Most USB ports will only do 0.5 ...

^i can confirm what SP said. requires a high current USB that is why

anyone with one to sell? ill pay a little premium :P

The USB header on the motherboard will be indicated as a high power USB. The PCB inside the header is red.

Getting a good workout carrying the touchpad around lulz.

lol, I hope the overwhelming demand change HP's mind to launch touchpad2

This overwhelming demand is only because it's so dirt cheap. If they were selling it at original price, barely anyone would buy it.

Most people that I know who bought it know nothing about the device, and bought it only because of the price.

Watch for someone to do the same thing, except on purpose. Instead of spending $200 million on advertising, they'll spend that much putting 2-3 million tablets in the hands of consumers.

Perfect fit would be Amazon, who have their own music store, cloud setup that is probably more robust than iCloud, book store, and even their own App store.

Yeah I could see that happening. It's a great way to build hype about a product for sure.

Hence why I thought that HP might be doing some smoke and mirror type marketing since the drop in price coincided with their tv ads for the touchpad.

And since it is temporarily sold out everywhere, there is lots of talk on the forums/magazines which is free advertisement for HP.

not sure if this has been posted or not, but here are step by step instructions on how to make you TP much snappier (minimize logging+ OC)

TouchPadPlus.com -- The Leading Step By step Instruction to Jailbreak, Boost Up and Overclock TouchPad


[EDIT] Instructions are in the link, not the video. Video just shows comparison between TP with and without the tweaks

My order is still stuck in Admin.

I'm thinking of cancelling my order as I don't feel like I want it anymore. Especially since I found an awesome app on the iPhone that streams many video types from your pc to the phone over the air. This includes mkv files.

I really doubt HP is doing this as some form of "marketing". And I doubt any other company (like Amazon) would ever sell a whack of $99 tablets for marketing purposes.

The real problem I see is how do you ever convince consumers they have to pay the "retail" price for something after millions of people got the "bargain" price? How many tablets do you sell before going back to retail? What about people who complain they missed the sale price? Do you give them a rain-check or piss them off and say they're SOL?

I think what Amazon will do is sell their tablet at cost, or at a slight loss on the expectation they'll make back the money on purchases from their store. I don't think they can afford to sell one for $99-$149 as they can't reasonably expect every consumer to spend several hundred $$$ on products to make up the shortfall. I can see a $249-$299 tablet from Amazon which would be far cheaper than the iPad, Transformer or Galaxy (the only real competitors, IMO) and would likely give them a lot of sales.

It's the same way people can buy a subsidized phone, or pay "retail" for it if they don't want to be locked to an expensive contract. Only this time, the device is subsidized by the software is on it.

Basically apple does the same thing - force you to use their app store, their music store, their everything. Except Apple doesn't have to subsidize the price, since everyone wants one already because of Magic.

The Amazon tablet doesn't have to be a dual core 9.7" IPS tablet either. It can't be shitty, but it doesn't have to cost $300 to make to be able to sell for $100-150.

$249-299 won't work either. Because nobody wants a tablet. Unless it's an ipad (Magic), or unless it's a ridiculous deal.

don't cancel and just let me buy it from you :fullofwin:

I hope their stock replenishes this week. I already have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 but wouldn't mind a cheaper one to screw around with when the android deveolopment matures.

Except that no manufacturer I know of subsidizes their products. It's the wireless carriers/providers that are subsidizing devices by locking people into fixed term contracts (essentially you're financing your device).

Amazon isn't going to be able to lock people into a contract, so they will have no guarantees whatsoever as to a monthly income from each tablet. This is why they can't take much of a loss on each tablet.

My mom got a 32GB and I've got a 16 on the way. For the price I really can't complain, there have been a couple times where it's a bit slow but it's completely stock at the moment so once I get mine I'll speed it up.

Can we get a dedicated thread to the OCing, modding and Android porting instead of picking through 27 pages of people trying to get one?

If they put out 2-3 million devices in peoples' hands, and those people use Amazon services for everything, they will be set.

We'll see I guess.

I bought the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Owned it for 36 hours. Returned it. I was going to sell the HP touchpad since I could make a little profit on it.

It turned out I preferred WebOS over the Samsung Touchwiz. Sure the hardware was super sexy, but the software didn't really feel like it justified the $600 price tag. I couldn't believe I decided to keep the Touchpad. Browsing the web on the 10.1. Multitasking lust didn't feel as good either. And 100,000 apps doesn't really matter considering there aren't a ton of Android apps optimized for tablets, and that typically I'd have like 10-20apps on my devices.

90% of the time I like to use tablet for surfing web, email, and facebook (Android doesn't have a dedicated facebook app? or am I nuts?). And I would argue that the Touchpad is better at that, than the Tab 10.1 esp at $99.

i haz touchpad. w00t