Last week, Hewlett-Packard Co. announced that it would abandon its WebOS smartphone and PC business, including the TouchPad. Just one day later, it will start another amazing move. The HP TouchPad tablet will cut its price significantly. The original $399 TouchPad 16GB model will be reduced to $99. The original 499 US dollars 32GB TouchPad dropped to 149 US dollars. This move is a follow-up to HP’s decision to spin off the PC business, and HP will soon completely withdraw from the PC market. And this "jumping cabbage sales price" immediately triggered a global panic buying, there are also some online stores began to grab the purchasing business, although more than double the price more expensive, still cheap enough, has attracted many consumers.

HP will continue to supply until the inventory is emptied. Hewlett-Packard announced last week that it will stop the operation of the WebOS department. As a result, tablets and smartphones equipped with the WebOS operating system will also stop production. Subsequently, Hewlett-Packard quickly reduced the price of the 16GB and 32GB TouchPad to US$99 and US$149, respectively. The TouchPads of stores in the United States and Canada were looted for hours. This pushed TouchPad’s sales to about 350,000 units over the weekend, which is equivalent to Apple’s first weekend after launching tablet products. The European market is also starting to cut prices. The original GBP 350 GBP for the 16GB TouchPad is only £89, and the original £430 GBGB for only £115.

HP spokesman Bryna Corcoran said on Twitter that more TouchPads will be available to HP's own online store. The next sale is about to begin and the TouchPad has been discontinued, but inventory will continue to be available. Cochran said she did not know how many TouchPads were in transit and when they arrived, but Hewlett-Packard is still accepting TouchPad orders online, 16GB version is $ 99.99, 32GB version is $ 149.99. There is no guarantee that users who place orders in HP's online store will be able to get TouchPad. HP will follow the principle of first come, first serve. In addition, Hewlett-Packard also set up a webpage specifically for consumers to register their own e-mails so that TouchPad can be notified when they arrive again. For the current situation in which TouchPad is in short supply, Cochrane described it as "a mixed blessing."

Pre 3 smartphones also "tears sales"

However, consumers in the United States may be lucky enough to buy a low-priced TouchPad tablet, but the same thing will not happen on the Pre 3 . Because Hewlett-Packard has announced that the release of the Pre 3 US region has been officially canceled, and this flagship mobile phone will adopt price reduction sales strategy in Europe. This is another new webOS-based product launched by HP at the special WebOS conference in San Francisco in February this year. It is also one of the two models of PalmOS launched after HP’s acquisition. HP Veer, which uses a slider keyboard design, screen size of 3.6 inches, a resolution of 480 × 800 pixels, equipped with a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor, there is a front camera to support VGA resolution image capture. The HP Pre 3 is currently available in several countries in Europe. It sells for $505 in France and $490 in the United Kingdom. As HP announced its abandonment of WebOS business and tablet, the Pre 3's discount is very large, the minimum is only 75 US dollars. The German Pre 3 is currently out of stock.

HP also announced that the company will continue to provide updates for WebPad devices such as TouchPad, Veer and Pre 3. Pre 3 will also be sold in a "very limited area." It is expected that selling these WebOS devices will not cost HP much time.

The number of online purchasing services has doubled. Of course, Chinese consumers are extremely eye-pleasing. In some IT forums in China, some users plan to purchase TouchPad. Because 99 US dollars is about 640 yuan, even if you add the tariff you have to pay. The cost will not exceed 1,000 yuan. This price in the United States also belongs to the "cabbage price", Best Buy and Hewlett-Packard's inventory will soon be looted, I believe that domestic buyers want to save money is not difficult. Some online stores have also launched their purchasing services. Yesterday, the Chengdu Business Daily reporter saw on Taobao that some online stores had already played advertisements with “special prices scheduled to start”, and the purchasing price was basically above 1600 yuan, which was more than double the price of the post-down price. A shop named "Timki" explained the TouchPad purchasing service on the page. Among them, "Not necessarily bought, no full refund can be purchased." The owner of the latest news: August 20th, 2011 online shocked "from birth to destroy the HP TouchPad half a year's career history, HP sold TouchPad" news, and now our US treasurer to grab the goods in the United States, grab to give everyone to send Goods, can not grab a full refund, so everyone is psychologically prepared. Now that the United States is out of stock, the specific delivery time it grabs is still unknown. If the shipment is fast, it can be done in about three weeks after the payment. The shop said that the initial price of purchasing: 16GB 1999 yuan, 32GB 2399 yuan.

Industry sources said that if consumers are currently at risk of purchasing TouchPad, HP may stop providing technical support for WebOS after one year. However, if consumers want to buy a tablet at a low price, TouchPad is still a good choice.