You will still be able to get it from other stores. Every place should drop the price to 99/149 today. Only problem is, they will sell out fast because of Slickdeals. I'm going to see if I can get a second one for family or a friend.
Just a heads up for those of you that are interested but don't know much about what is going on at HP...
They are not going to be building anymore hardware for webOS, but they are keeping the software and working on licensing it out to hardware manufacturers.
Those of you concerned about the number of apps, think about this: a half million units are in the process of being sold to consumers in the US. My guess is app developers might want to get in on this sudden swell of tablet purchases. With HP getting some money back from app sales, it won't be too much different than how Microsoft and Sony lost money on console sales in the early days of the 360 and PS3 but made some back on software.
still being verified -.-
HP site: out of both.
I lucked out went to Walmart, bestbuy, staples(didn't change price yet), then went into HHGreg just after they opened. They had six 16gb, I was able to get one
Playing around with it, the screen is nice, scrolling on web pages is much smoother than my android devices (One is a evo 3d). Plays videos well, linked into my pictures. Connected to Exchange, yahoo, Gmail and made all email available.
Overall impressed for the short time I have used it, first web OS device i have used.
dont mean to thread crap considering I ordered 2 of them but I woudnt count on such a great APP exposition. Even with .5 Mil of these leaving the shelves it dosent give developers that much incentive to develop apps for a dieing platform. considering the IPAD sells the same number of units in a month (kinda a guess at that number, i remember reading that they usually place orders for ~20 Mil displays at a time)
My hope is the surge in touchpad's will prompt someone to get android running on it!
download box.net and you will get 50GB of online storage free.
Ordered 2 of these through the walmart site with store pickup. Got the email confirming they were ready so went to get them. When I got there, the manager came out and said they did not have any in stock for that price and that he cancelled my order. I asked if he had any in stock and they had 3, but they were 398.00 apeice.
I went ahead and picked up the two I wanted and figured I would test my luck with a return price match in a few days, worse case I just return them all together in 15 days.
I even thought I would call walmart.com on monday and see how the store manager was able to cancel my order when they were in stock.