HOPES FOR an HP style tablet fire sale on HTC’s Flyer were quashed yesterday after it went up on sale for at Best Buy USA in error.
Not surprisingly, the Flyer quickly sold out online after customers started noticing the price cut from 9 to . However, Best Buy then refused to honour the pricing error in both its stores and online, claiming that “we reserve the right to correct any pricing errors that we find in our stores”. The tablet is now back on the Best Buy USA web site for 9, which the retailer says is a 0 discount. It is no longer sold out.
Best Buy said on its Twitter page, “We apologise that the HTC Flyer was incorrectly priced on Bestbuy.com & in-store.
“The HTC Flyer (SKU 2390524) was incorrectly priced at .99 on Bestbuy.com and in some of our stores. This error has been corrected on Bestbuy.com and our stores have posted a correction notice at their locations. Bestbuy.com orders that were placed at the .99 price will be canceled. Best Buy will not be price matching the .99 price on the Flyer, nor will the HTC Flyer be available for .99.”
It added, “For Bestbuy.com orders please refer to the ‘error on our site clause’ within the Conditions of Use on Bestbuy.com. Please keep in mind that we reserve the right to correct any pricing errors that we find in our stores.” µ
AN HP TOUCHPAD running Android has tipped up on Ebay after it was mistakenly sent to a buyer this week.
The buyer claimed that his cut price Best Buy US Touchpad turned up running Google’s Android 2.2 operating system (OS). It is possibly a developer device that got mixed up with the fire sale models, as Youtube videos of the device show it having a Qualcomm Innovation Center (Quic) logo.
According to Engadget, the buyer has posted the ROM dump online and it’s available on Rootzwiki. Excitingly, this will enable all owners of the HP Touchpad to run the Android 2.2 OS.
The Ebay Touchpad has already attracted bids of ,025, which is around ten times the price HP is asking for the tablet.
Meanwhile, a Touchpad-running-Android bounty posted by Hacknmod is up to ,150, according to Engadget. The INQUIRER sees an easy arbitrage opportunity here for some enterprising Ebay buyer. µ
AN HP TOUCHPAD running Android has tipped up on Ebay after it was mistakenly sent to a buyer this week.
The buyer claimed that his cut price Best Buy US Touchpad turned up running Google’s Android 2.2 operating system (OS). It is possibly a developer device that got mixed up with the fire sale models, as Youtube videos of the device show it having a Qualcomm Innovation Center (Quic) logo.
According to Engadget, the buyer has posted the ROM dump online and it’s available on Rootzwiki. Excitingly, this will enable all owners of the HP Touchpad to run the Android 2.2 OS.
The Ebay Touchpad has already attracted bids of ,025, which is around ten times the price HP is asking for the tablet.
Meanwhile, a Touchpad-running-Android bounty posted by Hacknmod is up to ,150, according to Engadget. The INQUIRER sees an easy arbitrage opportunity here for some enterprising Ebay buyer. µ
AN HP TOUCHPAD running Android has tipped up on Ebay after it was mistakenly sent to a buyer this week.
The buyer claimed that his cut price Best Buy US Touchpad turned up running Google’s Android 2.2 operating system (OS). It is possibly a developer device that got mixed up with the fire sale models, as Youtube videos of the device show it having a Qualcomm Innovation Center (Quic) logo.
According to Engadget, the buyer has posted the ROM dump online and it’s available on Rootzwiki. Excitingly, this will enable all owners of the HP Touchpad to run the Android 2.2 OS.
The Ebay Touchpad has already attracted bids of ,025, which is around ten times the price HP is asking for the tablet.
Meanwhile, a Touchpad-running-Android bounty posted by Hacknmod is up to ,150, according to Engadget. The INQUIRER sees an easy arbitrage opportunity here for some enterprising Ebay buyer. µ
ELECTRONICS RETAILERS Currys and PC World will start selling Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 a day earlier than anyone else in the UK.
The big name retailers will begin exclusively selling the tablet at Tottenham Court Road, London on 3 August at 5pm. You can pre-order the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Currys.co.uk or Pcworld.co.uk now for £399.
Mark Slater, category director for computing, communications and office at Dixons said, “Being the leading electrical retailer in the UK means we are able to bring to market the latest and greatest technology as soon as it is available and secure exclusive products like this for our customers.”
The starting price of £399 will get you a WiFi only model with 16GB of storage. Currys and PC World said this version will be exclusively available from them for one month.
3G models of the tablet are expected to tip up on 23 August, according to the web sites. The 3G Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 64GB will set you back £659 and there’s also a 32GB storage option for WiFi and 3G models. The entire price range is identical to that of Apple’s Ipad 2.
The redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1 is thinner and lighter than the fruit themed firm’s rival. It weighs in 6g lighter at just 595g and is 0.2mm thinner at 8.6mm, previously 10.9mm.
The device will come with Google’s Android Honeycomb operating system and a 1GHz dual core processor. There will be 1GB of RAM and unsurprisingly a 10.1in screen with 1280×800 resolution.
If you’re interested in the Galaxy Tab 10.1 then you can take a look at our hand-on review. µ
PICTURES AND VIDEO of an HTC handset with the words Windows Phone inscribed on it and running what The INQUIRER thinks appears to be the Windows Phone 7 OS user interface have appeared on the Internet.
Despite what would seem to be a slam dunk scoop with apparently undeniable visual proof, HTC still told The INQUIRER that it doesn’t comment on “speculation and rumour”. The handset manufacturer has announced that it will offer a Windows Phone 7 phone and the OS is expected to tip up just before or during December.
The pictures and video are another embaressing leak for handset makers, after Apple, Motorola and other products found their way to websites earlier this year. Even if the HTC handset is an early prototype that does not represent the final product, the images are likely to be another example of a lack of supply chain security. Then again it could all be part of a cunning guerilla marketing campaign.
The user interface demonstrated in the video appears to be the Windows Phone 7 OS that was shown to The INQUIRER in a one on one briefing during the last week of July. µ
Lawrence Latif THE INQUIRER
3TB ought to be enough for anyone
