Produce an additional 200,000 HP tablet 'super cheap' TouchPad

Before the "shortfalls" of the user for two tablet version and 150 USD 100 USD price is consumed too quickly, HP plans to "regenerate" the tablet has been on their death in October next.

According to DigiTimes, the number of machines that HP is in order about 100,000 to 200,000 machines.
When the new TouchPad is born, it is rated quite high but not conquered by the dominant buyers of Apple iPad, and iPad 2. However, after HP announced TouchPad stopped production and lower product prices to "discharge", then this tablet device suddenly become "hot" one in August.

HP TouchPad.

"The phenomenon TouchPad" shows cheap tremendous appeal to consumers. They can be measured weighed before buying a product that cost 100 USD, but is ready for loading on duty early or sit on the network to buy the HP tablet 100 USD though it was listed as "dead product", simply because they only see that number more than 100 USD is a bargain compared to the initial 400 USD.

The fever has surprised on the HP board and before the popularity of the TouchPad, analysts believe that technology companies are trying to pull back their tablet market. Discount policy shock is a move to build a user base as a springboard and perfect plan "attack" Apple next time.

According to estimates by site PreCentral, HP could have sold 800,000 TouchPad and with further plans to ship 200,000 units, webOS platform will come from "nothing" jumped to third place after iOS and Android. Not to mention, the new Lenovo is also "peel me" Samsung that the Korean electronics firm actually sold only 20,000 tablet in a million it shipped in 2010.

According to estimates by research firm iSuppli, HP TouchPad cost of production of 16 GB Wi-Fi is $ 306.65 while the 32 GB is $ 328.65. This amount does not include the cost of research, distribution, advertising ... but only the price component. Prominent among them is the 9.7 inch IPS screen $ 69, panel capacitance sensor is $ 63.5, SanDisk iNAND memory 16 GB and 32 GB price is 23 USD and 45 USD and Qualcomm chip Snapdragon 1.2 GHz is 20 USD.

TouchPad initial sale price of 500 USD (16 GB) and 600 USD (32 GB) down to 400 USD before. After production stopped, HP was forced to accept losses in order to release the inventory for $ 100 USD and 150 USD. Another product, Pre 3 phones, one of the world's most powerful smartphone with chip speeds up to 1.4 GHz and has cost 500 USD, HP is also sold in Europe only a mere 75 USD.

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