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[Nook Color General] AyoJake:
whoa whoa whoa so staples is doing it also?

my chances are going up right now : )

links please?
[Nook Color General] joenathane:
You get one Dalingrin, you get one and you make it run CM, even if it doesn't want to, you force it until it begs for mercy and then and only then do you let it breathe. :D

Seriously though, it would be great to know a grade A developer was on board.
[Nook Color General] fattire:
Ditto. :/ Verygreen snagged a couple but I had to take off for a dinner and couldn't do it- by the time I got back 3 hours later it was all over. I think deeper-blue has one (or plans to get it) as well.

I've no doubt though that android will end up on it fairly soon. The source is already in their hands :)
[Nook Color General] joenathane:
[YOUTUBE]IUH3JQjcweM[/YOUTUBE]

sorry, i had to :D
[Nook Color General] fattire:
They'e at office depot right now for $130/16 and $150/32. I just snagged the 32 gb for $150. Not as awesome as $99 for the 16 at HP, but I guess that's the cost of laziness + I didn't wanna miss out on the fun.
[Nook Color General] DiDGR8:
HP's web site is sold out, and Staples still had the old price as of 4am EDT. Office Depot will offer the 16GB for $129 and the 32GB for $149 (for delivery but not for store pick up as of 4am). I was able to order the 32GB just now.

I'm going to go to the local store (listed as limited availability online) at 9am today. I expect they will have the discounts on whatever they have in stock. If they do, I'll get one there and cancel the online order (which won't ship until Monday).
[Nook Color General] Unrealwolf:
100$ looks hotdarn good, especially if there will be Android one day. I hope them touchpads won'be all bought in a first day, and there will be a couple of a good deals on ebay.
[Nook Color General] butler360:
FYI from SlickDeals:

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862
[Nook Color General] fattire:
Well, office depot is out of stock but the rumors are that later tonight amazon will have 'em cheap. For those following along, this is the big thread... (hat tip to verygreen for letting me know re it)
[Nook Color General] joenathane:
Office Depot link 32gb $149 http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/278394/HP-TouchPad-Tablet-32GB/ store pickup available
[Nook Color General] TheIronMustache:
For anyone in the States not seeing the Prices at any sites: Print off a copy of any or as many of the websites you can find that have it advertised as $99 or $149. Then take the adds to any Best Buy location and whether they drop the prices or not they will need to price match the add. ESPECIALLY if you bring the Canadian Best Buy Add, how can they NOT price match their own online add. Same should work for Staples i believe.
[Nook Color General] fattire:
Heh this is kind of fun. Walmart online sold out in about 2 minutes.
[Nook Color General] AyoJake:
i saw on bestbuys website that they arent price matching.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Compute...ls/pcmcat250800050019.c?id=pcmcat250800050019
[Nook Color General] zequav:
****. My sister lives in USA but I assume it'll be too late when she wakes up to get me one. They are ****ing flying off the shelves.

Oh well :(

(edit) Wait, cheking in walmart it says "limited stock" for the 16GB model and "in stock" for the 32GB in my sister's city... sould I send her as soon as she wakes up or will it be useless?
[Nook Color General] EvoFroyo:
If you're waiting on Amazon or want to easily track HP TouchPad sales, be sure to keep checking http://touchpadtracker.com. :)
[Nook Color General] Lyphen:
Well, Canadians can at least find a whole bunch on the second hand market - I'm seeing a ton on kijiji at crazy markups, but maybe they'll be more reasonable in a few weeks.

I picked up one myself last night, just 3 minutes before BestBuy closed. Neat little thing, best of luck of everyone, I'd try calling local OfficeDepots and Wal Marts.
[Nook Color General] Jotokun:
Just got one, waited for a Walmart where I live to open for it. For $100 its an absolute steal, my limited use of it so far impresses me. At the same time, I can see why it failed. All it needed was a little more software polish.

Cant wait for an Android port to show up
[Nook Color General] zequav:
In the end I sent my sister for one =). I hope she can get hold of two...

Nope, no luck. No stock in Manhattan, KS Walmart. Bummer :(
[Nook Color General] pinakaeus:
Anyone get BestBuy to pricematch?
[Nook Color General] Sincitybronze:
Thank you for posting this. Called walmart this morning and was told $500. Went down there just in case and picked up the 32g for $149.
[Nook Color General] vtmike:
I was able to get a 32gb one from Sam's club this morning for 150 plus tax. They only had 2 left at 830.
[Nook Color General] liam.lah:
Got to best but at opening 10am. they were clueless about the whole thing. Officemax next door was sold out, as was walmart.
[Nook Color General] 416inversed:
I struck out at every location I went to. Both Wal-marts had sold out. Best Buy stated they pulled all their inventory to send back to HP; OfficeDepot said the same thing. At Staples they were literally pulling down the display as I walked in, they had even sold the display unit.

So, I guess I'm crossing my fingers that HP.com will come back into stock when they receive all the returned retailer inventory....
[Nook Color General] 70challenger:
Bought mine on backorder from bestbuy.ca, 32G $149.99 W/free delivery- link is now gone...Android port port port.

One thing they didnt do was include mini hdmi output for video, pictures, etc...Most smartphones have these features and maybe that would have helped sales.
[Nook Color General] advocate2:
I'm in San Diego this weeked. I went out early and tried Walmart, Office Depot and Staples. They are all sold out. It sounds like all big retailers are sending warehouse stock back to HP. The retailers probably don't want to deal with warranty problems on returns of a dscontinued product.
[Nook Color General] joenathane:
There should be a second wave from hp.com from all the returned stock, everyone who missed out should have another chance, although once the second wave goes one sale I bet they'll sell out in minutes...
[Nook Color General] Imbroglio:
It sounds like everyone is abandoning the NC and support is coming to an end.

I am too poor to be able to shell out another $150 for an HP so I am stuck with this thing.
[Nook Color General] actorman46:
No, I think its more people want something new to play with.
[Nook Color General] joenathane:
Well I don't know about anyone else but personally I cracked my Nook in half over my knee as soon as I heard about this deal! :)

Just because your parents plan on get pregnant it doesn't mean they will abandon you went the new baby comes.

For my uses I don't imagine that the TouchPad could replace my Nook, it's too big for my regular uses, but I could imagine some scenarios where its bigger size and power could come in handy.

I think the Nook will have a long life and support.
[Nook Color General] psychoace:
Think of it this way. If you were to look and try to find a 16GB MP3 player right now you could easily be paying 120 bucks. Add a screen and video playback now you are up to 200. Add WiFi, GPS, web browser and email support then you can see how this is a steal without even putting android on it
[Nook Color General] DiDGR8:
I will still be using my Nook in classes. The smaller form factor is more manageable and EZPDF is much better than Adobe on the HP for my A&P texts, etc. In fact the ebook reader is a beta version of the Kindle app on the TouchPad that is still having trouble with sideloading. No Netflix or Hulu either. No Amazon free app of the day.

IF a flavor of Android shows up, that might change some, but I will keep my Nook for several more years. Especially if ICS is available for the NC.
[Nook Color General] Divine_Madcat:
I admit, i grabbed a 32GB... why? Because i have always wanted a 10" tablet, and at $120 (thanks $30 off coupon), it was a no brainer. Am i abandoning my nook? Are you nuts? The nook will always be a more portable tablet.. but the 10" wil be great for things too. And, if it gets Android, and i find that WebOS isn't as good.. i will make another hacked tablet and enjoy both..
[Nook Color General] sark666:
Thinking on getting one tomorrow. Also, although it would be nice to have cyanogen on this, no android os pre honeycomb is hardware accelerated, whereas by looking at videos, this os seems to be.

Thinking smooth(er) web browsing, so I might even leave the webos on it. But I'm mainly interested in pdf's. Specifically reading tech manuals and such.

How is the webos's pdf reading capabilities? Either with the built-in viewer or third-party apps?

Also, it has bluethooth, do any bluetooth mic's work on it? Is there a sip phone app for it?

eh, I'm in toronto, and it seems out of stock at both staples and bestbuy... I doubt they'll be re-stocking.
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
back in business. BestBuy changed their mind, i made it into store and got a 16GB for $99 with just 6 left in stock. then I went to customer service and got back the 16GB i returned (explanation here) also for $99.

bottom line: i am in possession of two fire-sale 16GB TouchPad.

dalingrin, pm or email me a shipping address and i'll send you one of them.

- - -

anybody still hunting here's word from HP: http://twitter.com/#!/BrynaAtHP
[Nook Color General] Nburnes:
I believe dalingrin actually got a 16GB already. I picked up 3 myself this morning. WebOS Quick Install and Preware later, this thing is flying at 1.5 GHz. :D

Interested in the touchdroid development side as well, oh, and Ubuntu.
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
awesome. dalingrin, fattire, verygreen all on board.

$99 for this quality of hardware, would have been unethical or at least immoral to refuse.

as an aside, i'm pleased to see that WebOS supports VPNC out of the box for Cisco IPSEC connections.

EDIT: comparing TouchPad to NC side-by-side and IMO the screen is no comparison, especially for reading small text, the NC screen is just that much sharper. in fact i have not seen a LCD screen better than the NC among any shipping tablet device, i don't think that is going to change until "retina-display" resolution tablets get out. NC for when i need to get work done, TouchPad to play around with.
[Nook Color General] cheapfx:
Why would you want android on it? That's the strong point of WebOS, the silky smooth operating system. The software wasn't the problem with HPalm it was the crappy hardware.

Give me WebOS on my samsung epic or nook color and I would be happy! Screw porting the other way around. ;-)
[Nook Color General] Nburnes:
Crappy hardware? I believe it is equivalent to the Sensation....anyway mines been chugging along at 1.5GHz, added kernel testing and I want to try one of the 1.7 GHz, but I'm kinda "scared" tbh.
[Nook Color General] quikt:
While this is a great deal for a tablet, i am wondering why this was posted in the nook general forum?

For our beloved nook devs, do ur magic!
[Nook Color General] andtron:
Yeah, get your own 'damned' HP forum :).

The $99 question is, when the production stopped and assume there was a hack for the HP now, would the development continue for it while there is no more need for it?

The reason is that NC is so popular is that it is still on sale and new people are still buying it, so keep the 'hacking' going.
[Nook Color General] cheapfx:
I was refering to the hardware of the pre and pixie. What webos originally launched on and eventually was its downfall.
[Nook Color General] MedLine:
we're all following this board for 3 reasons:

1. we love tablets

2. we know quality when we see it, ala quality like NC

3. we're cheap, that's why we own NC to begin with

just so happens $99 16GB TouchPad meets those 3 criteria (tablet, quality, cheap), thus reasonable to expect those following this board would be interested.

that said my CM7 NC has been with me through more bottle feedings and diaper calls than you could possibly believe. i didn't know a thing about Android before the NC but now i can compile the android ROM from source, compile the kernel, screw around with the APK ... and, my wife and kids happen to be out of town, which is why i had time to hunt down a TouchPad.

good luck to you, if you're trying to snag down one of them.
[Nook Color General] dalingrin:
Ice Cream Sandwich or even Gingerbread is better than the defunct WebOS with no support, no apps, slow browser, etc.

It depends on your usage but I want Netflix, HBO Go, and whatever else might come to Android in the future.
[Nook Color General] SteveRiley:
As of about 10:30 AM Saturday morning, I couldn't find one anywhere here in Seattle. Called several Best Buys, OfficeMaxes, Office Depots, and Stapleses... some of them even answered the phone "Thank you for calling <store>, if you're asking about the TouchPad, we're already sold out." Sigh.
[Nook Color General] Drachen808:
I went into walmart saturday morning and I asked the guy and he said "congratulations you are the 39th person to ask about the touchpad since we sold out" I told him "congratulations, you are the first worker to tell me that you are sold out since your website told me that you had stock".

As for why you would want to port android.... I, surprisingly, like webos, it is nice, it has unparalleled multitasking, but apps open very slowly for a 1.2 ghz dual core. I know how it should run with my evo3d, so I am a little disappointed in that particular aspect and would appreciate android to remedy it.
[Nook Color General] Nburnes:
Then being the awesome developer you are, help support it (HP isn't leaving software side though, as plenty people have asked), make some awesome apps, speed up the browser, etc. Development on both sides is going to explode thanks to this firesale.

I find mine rather fast with a few tweaks and OC kernel.
[Nook Color General] Lyphen:
Honestly, webOS with some kind of market emulator would be my dream. I'm enjoying this OS much more then CM7 on the Nook, and what I've played with Honeycomb.

Problem of course, is the complete lack applications. What a shame!
[Nook Color General] vtmike:
Has anyone found anywhere selling the accessories discounted? Cases and touchstone charger are what I'm looking for.

Just saw staples has the 16gb one listed for 99.99 with a $50 instant discount bringing it to 50 dollars. They are of course sold out. That is a ridiculous price though.
[Nook Color General] 416inversed:
Round 2: every place that wouldn't sell me a touchpad yesterday are now sold out of them after reversing their positions. Doesn't seem like I'm fated to join in on the $99 fun.
[Nook Color General] sark666:
Yeah, something seems fishy about this sale. I'm in Toronto, ON CA and this sale was at staples, bestbuy, futureshop, the source, costco. Yes I'm late to the party but I phoned a few stores and they admitted to me that they didn't actually have any in stock from day 1 and they had to turn away people lined up before opening. They said it was some shipping issue. So it sounds like a lot of people didn't get this. And a couple of stores told me they had in stock around 2 or 3.

2 or 3? I'm at least expecting to hear 20-50. You have a huge national sale across all the big chains and stores seemed to typically have had 2 or 3 or none?!

I just went to hp.com/ca and they list it at the $99/$149, but click on either device to add to the shopping cart and neither list the sale price but original price. And the $99 model actually says add to wish list.

I thought I read bestbuy was angry with the massive stock they have of this device and thus this sale. Were a huge amount shipped back to hp? Seems weird to do that when you are having this sale.

Anyway, I know some got it, but it seems like it was only a few.
[Nook Color General] imjimmy:
Touchpad for PDFs

Can anyone tell me about the PDF reading experience on the Touchpad please?

I love my NC to death for almost everything.

The only problem is that I need to read some finance/accounting PDFs which have all these tables and journal entries which do NOT fit on the smaller screen of the NC.

So is the Touchpad better at PDFs? Can I use EzPDF on it? Does it come with any other PDF software?

PDFs would be the only reason I would buy the touchpad, so would appreciate if someone can comment about this aspect. Thanks in advance!
[Nook Color General] Jotokun:
The HP Touchpad comes with Adobe Reader preinstalled. It doesnt let you zoom in as much as you can with some software on the nook, but what little I've used it, it looks decent. I cant find any alternate PDF viewers in the app store, so you'd be stuck with what it comes with if you stay with webOS.
[Nook Color General] imjimmy:
Thanks. I appreciate the reply.

I just ordered one for $100 + tax + shipping = $115. Not a bad deal overall.

I'll try and read my PDFs on this. If it works its good, otherwise I guess it will need to be gifted to someone.

I doubt Android will ever be ported on this, and the WebOS Apps from what my friend tells me are very few and generally useless.
[Nook Color General] Razgriz:
Where did you pick one up at? Everywhere I've checked is sold out.
[Nook Color General] imjimmy:
Try this one: It's still at $99

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056UOUC8/ref=ox_ya_os_product
[Nook Color General] stud_muffler:
They also still have 32Gb version.

:cool:
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
I went to BestBuy and the say they sold every single one in 15mins, the same at OfficeMax. And I can't order through amazon because they don't ship electronics to Puerto Rico, sooo sad :mad:

OMG ebay it's getting flooded with HP TouchPads, and people are buying them for $200+
[Nook Color General] fattire:
Amazon's "onsale" ones are still avail as of me typing this. Dunno if costcentral.com will deliver to PR, but the rumors are they have them now as well.

Good luck!
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
Thanks for the link to costcentral but they only ship through fedex which is a bit expensive :) $22 + 100 = 122 I wanted to get it for 99 xD
[Nook Color General] leskerr:
Shipping dimensions?

Can anyone advise me of the shipping dimensions? I need it to get a price from a shipping company to ship internationally.

TIA

Elkay
[Nook Color General] AyoJake:
is cost central a reputable company?
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo OnSale is out of stock
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
No idea I didnt go ahead with the order since I was waiting for a response from OnSale if they could sell it to me but not via amazon
[Nook Color General] leskerr:
Missed it too

:(

Elkay
[Nook Color General] AyoJake:
sites going down constantly for me.
[Nook Color General] AyoJake:
alright ordered one from costcentral lets hoep they are legit and i get it in 1-7 days like they say.
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
Lucky you, they don't ship to Puerto Rico either. If anyone knows anymore websites where they selling it at $99 please post them.
[Nook Color General] bassrebel:
just bought mine in Amazon from OnSale (32gb @ $150) while I love my nook, I couldn't pass up this offer :)
[Nook Color General] AyoJake:
only lucky if it actually shows up im trusting the cnet review i saw.
[Nook Color General] Drachen808:
I googled "costcentral review" for you and it seems that they have a 9.63/10 rating with 2100+ reviews over the past 6 mos.
[Nook Color General] AyoJake:
alright thanks for the help everyone your making me feel better about ordering from there.
[Nook Color General] alex6499:
Darn, I missed the deal. Every website is sold out. I'd keep my nook and sell the touchpad for profit. Seem to much like the GTab i've got on Ebay right now.
[Nook Color General] aikiwoce:
I currently have 2 16gb models on order through costcentral.com, and 1 32gb model that's hopefully being pricematched through kmart.com. I really only want a 16gb one. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to straight up donate the other 2 to developers, but I'll gladly sell them for my cost + shipping to a registered xda developer. Assuming all 3 show up.
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
I'm not a dev but maybe you can sell one to me xP
[Nook Color General] Drachen808:
GOOOOOOOO

http://gifts.barnesandnoble.com/HP-...c=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-lw9MynSeamY-_-10:1
[Nook Color General] SteveRiley:
Got one, yeah! (Oh, and thanks. BTW, anyone know why my Thanks Meter never seems to increment when I click the "Thanks" button?)

I noticed they're still listing the 32 GB version for $599... don't people read their memos??? ;)
[Nook Color General] Drachen808:
I just realized that I doubled my Thanks' today. 1.25 years and 4 thanks!
[Nook Color General] joenathane:
Make sure to keep an eye on the newly formed Team TouchDroid of which our very own fattire is a member of.

github

It's gonna be sweet to have such a powerful Android tablet for so cheap!
[Nook Color General] cheapfx:
You da man!
[Nook Color General] zequav:
THANK YOU! I ordered 2! :D

(edit) It seems some people are getting "Unable to process order" in the B&N page AFTER they ordered and were charged... be aware :/. For now my order appears as "in process: not yet shipped", but... :/
[Nook Color General] patruns:
Interesting that B&N is selling this when there is no Nook app for it.....
[Nook Color General] myersw:
I agree, just ordered one off on B&N. But I know that I will still use the NC because of its smaller size. It will be nice to have a bigger screen, etc as well for the longer sessions emailing, online research, etc.

Will be especially great when the devs get CM7 or what ever they come up with working.

--bill

W
[Nook Color General] freonchill:
b&n has it listed as both touchpads (16/32) as of 9:48am EST

hope those who ordered them get them...
[Nook Color General] SCWells72:
I placed two orders yesterday, one with HP SMB division for a 32GB unit and one with OnSale@Amazon for a 16GB unit. Both have charged my CC but I don't have any kind of shipment notification yet. If both ship I'll keep the 32GB and already have several interested parties for the 16GB, though it's possible my wife will want it. I'll be keeping a very close eye on TouchDroid. I hope it pans out, especially after ICS is released, but even if it doesn't it's hard to knock $99/$149 for a 9.7" Web/mail/Skype client/eReader/etc., especially since most of the books I read on the Nook are actually through the Kindle Reader app.
[Nook Color General] freonchill:
if you go to the HP page, then click on the drop-down menu for "tablets"

http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo/webos/us/en/
[Nook Color General] dvrdwn:
ben trying since last night.
[Nook Color General] jgaf:
damn I missed the BN sell, I had no internet service due to a tropical storm :( please keep posting website if you find them. Thanks to everyone posting places where to get them.
[Nook Color General] pworcester:
HP ordered back to warehouse

I've been watching this since early Saturady morning, I mean 12:30 am early, had a system outage. I saw retailers, Sears, Bestbuy, OfficeDepot, OfficeMax, Staples, everywhere I heard they had them in stock. In fact Saturday morning about 7:30 I saw Bestbuy listing them in stock at some local stores and buy 8:00am, sold out.

Seemed kind of odd that they would be selling that quick, before the stores were open. Then today I read an entry on a web site that someone at a Bestbuy in Fullerton, CA? said that they could not sell them because HP has ordered retailers to return them to their warehouse. If you ordered one and receive it, your lucky!