At this point I would not count on any brick and mortar stores having them.

Best Buy had 50 people in line this morning and only had 16 tablets on hand. (per a friend)

 

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I would pick one up for $50 if I could find one.

EDIT: Someone posted a link for Staples for a 16GB one for $50, but it's out of stock now.

 

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http://www.amazon.com/Smartbuy-TouchPad-QUALCOMM-Snapdragon-Wireless/dp/B0056UOUC8/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

HP.com Small and Med. Bus. has the 32gb version as well, if you are willing to fight their checkout process.

just got one through a seller Onsale in amazon. They had both 16 and 32 right now.

This bugger sure does get slippery once you've held it a while and smudged up the back. Might need some grip tape or something for this.

http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-GB01550-Elan-Passport-iPhone/dp/B003CKAQ7M/ref=sr_1_1?t=slickdeals&tag=slickdeals&ie=UTF8&qid=1313973130&amp ;sr=8-1

Fits perfectly.

Oh bummer. The HP Pre 3 phone never launched in the US. But the Europeans are able to buy it for only $75 (unlocked, no contract). That is a sweet deal too for you Euro folks that can find one.

Before the guillotine fell last week, there was a leak that Best Buy had over 270,000 tablets, but only sold 25,000 (and may have had some returned, meaning even lower actual sells). That's 10% or less actually sold. Now with the fire sale it seems pretty much all are probably gone. And I would guess other retailers may have had similar stories.

What this probably means is that number of TouchPad owners just multiplied by 10 fold at least, maybe as much as 20 fold. With possibly half a million tablets now in the hands of users, I really hope that devs continue working on apps they might already have in progress. And perhaps to continue working on more. Really hope so.

I just following a guy working on a manga reader app, there are none available now. And I was reading a thread with some folks working on RDP clients, also completely missing from WebOS at the moment. RDP client would be really exciting, even a crappy one at this point, haha.

Just some wishful thinking.


In the meantime, other hope for an Android port. I'm a little skeptical if a stable Android port will ever happen. But at least this guy thinks it's already happened and he has one.
http://www.androidcentral.com/and-winner-1500-bounty-android-touchpad-qualcomm

WebOS has a lot of built in event logging for just about everything that goes on. Like a full on debugger mode running constantly. And this slows down the performance.

I followed the instructions in this article to disable the logging (oddly I had to create a Skype account, just to get to the dialer program that enables me to turn off some of the logging features).
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/how-to-improve-the-performance-of-your-new-hp-touchpad/3866

I definitely noticed an improvement after it was all done.

It looks like there is an android project underway for the tablet now too .

 

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