On the 3rd week of August 2011, HP announced the news that they were exiting from the very competitive mobile business.
Apple and the Android-folks led by Google were making it too difficult for HP to breathe in the mobile arena. It had only been more than a year since HP acquired the PDA-smartphone-mobile device pioneer from Palm.
On the following day, they decided to liquidate all their mobile devices inventory. And so, the Pre phones as well as the HP TouchPads – which they had introduced just a month earlier – had to be sold at steep discounts.
I am a frequent HP.com buyer, but, on that fateful day, I had totally forgotten to check out their website.
Three days later after the announcement, all the HP TouchPads were sold out.
The fire sale overwhelmed HP and so they promised that more HP TouchPads are coming at the same discounted prices: $99 for the 16 GB and $149 for the 32GB version.
I am still waiting.
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