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HP’s bombshell revelations

where it holds the global No. 1 spot

TouchPad

Apple (AAPL) has positioned its iPad very well for years to come against challengers in the tablet market.

Apple’s iPad was announced in January 2010

no tablet has caught up to what Apple offers.

happy with a Google (GOOG) Android Honeycomb tablet; fewer have purchased a BlackBerry (RIMM) Playbook.

third-party app support,

table the TouchPad?

For most people, the iPad is the most complete tablet available.

Apple holds the tablet crown.

phone apps,

a media store,

tens of millions were already used to.

earliest

tablet contenders appeared and they’re just now gaining certain key features: movie stores, for example, and stretch and zoom capabilities for phone apps. Consumers want a complete tablet experience, not one that’s “coming soon.”

HP’s $1.2 billion investment in webOS persuaded me that it was in the tablet race for the long haul. I defended the company’s move to sell the TouchPad at a discount and even bought one, only to find out days later that I was wrong: HP wasn’t selling the tablet at low prices to expand the user base quickly and help attract developers. HP apparently gave the TouchPad only a brief chance to gain an audience.

swiftly pulled.

7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb

North America and Europe

8GB and 16GB.

(A100-07u08u)

€231/$329.99/349.99 CAD

€349/$349.99/399.99 CAD.

1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core

battery tests

microSD card slot (up to 32GB supported), micro USB 2.0, HDMI port, 3.5mm audio jack2MP front facing camera, 5MP rear facing camera with LED Flash and Auto FocusBluetooth 2.1, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-FiAccelerometer, Gyro Sensor and Light SensorWeight: 470 grams ; L x B x H: 195 x 117 x 13.1 mmLi-Po 1530mAh standard battery

the tablets battery is weak.

LaptopMag

Engadget

1530mAh

512MB RAM, 8GB built-in flash memory storage

7-inch will be less than satisfying

Acer Iconia Tab A100

Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet

NVIDIA Tegra 2

following in the footsteps of the firm's successful Kindle e-reader and the Android tablets would be a natural extension of the firm's already-launched Amazon App Store.

take on the all-conquering iPad head on.

Amazon may also sell the device at a loss, as it does the Kindle e-reader, recouping costs through selling applications, books and services.

with the Wi-Fi only Kindle already retailing at $139.

$200 full-featured Android tablet with Amazon's marketing muscle behind it may well give Apple the competition it has so far not had to endure.

each of the gadgets cost HP at least £180 just to build, so selling the Touchpad for £89 would never have been considered until the firm decided to abandon it.

others hoping to loosen Apple’s stranglehold on the tablet computing market.

The main Google Android tablets, made by Samsung and Motorola, are pitched at around the same £400-ish price point as the iPad. But, put together with all the other Android tablets, it’s estimated they are outsold by Apple’s devices eight to one.

Amazon, which is rumoured to be preparing to release an Android tablet this autumn. Like Apple with the iPad, it has built and dominated a market for itself with the Kindle, its hugely successful e-reader.

Kindle’s success is its relatively low price of £111

prices.

Best Buy, the electronics retailer, cut the price of the TouchPad to $99 in an attempt to clear its stock. Best Buy was last week reported to have more than 200,000 of the tablets. The low price brought queues outside its stores and, according to one staff employee, a “stampede” from customers hoping to land a bargain.

HP's decision to discontinue its TouchPad product, Best Buy will now provide clearance pricing for all TouchPad 16GB and 32GB models regardless of previously advertised prices or promotions," Best Buy said. The company said that anyone who had bought a TouchPad after June 19 would be entitled to a refund.

Though Amazon.com has not discounted the TouchPad, the device still went to the top of Amazon’s bestselling electronics chart. The HP tablet took the top two places in the chart, ahead of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, which is usually a fixture at number one.

from £250 to £199

launch a new cheaper version of its PSP handheld console, with a price point of 99 euros.

launched in 2006 and has now shipped over 50 million

cheaper slimline machine in 2009.

supermarkets likely to go as low as £180

The new, cheaper PSP, which removes the Wi-Fi functionality from the six-year-old handheld, surprised many in the audience.

"Our strategy is to provide the best quality entertainment experience at accessible prices. With PSP at 99 euros, Vita starting at 249 euros and PlayStation 3 at 249 euros, we feel confident gamers can enjoy the incredible games available on PlayStation whatever level of investment suits their budget."

smartphones

tablet gaming.

while the new PSP price point makes that console very attractive,

"That's a big change from PS3's previous price drop."

Sony has assured gamers that PS3 will have a ten-year lifespan, and it's likely PlayStation 4 is a few years away yet.

ban the sale of three phones are "too similar" to the iPhone. The ban begins October 15.

Missing from the ban, however, are the Galaxy Tab tablets,

included in the original suit filed this month.

evidence that it may have doctored photos in that case, as well.

get the Tab banned in Germany,

A Dutch court found Samsung to be infringing on an Apple patent

technologies related to a “Portable Electronic Device for Photo Management.”

covers the various aspects of a photo gallery user interface

Samsung’s Galaxy S, SII, and Ace smartphones have thus been banned from sale.

use of touchscreen gestures

ban takes effect October 15

phones will be barred in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the Netherlands.

ruling will not be enforceable in other EU member-states because Apple failed to pay the administrative costs necessary in order to make the patent valid, tech patent blog FOSS Patents reports.

Apple’s failure to keep its paperwork in order

ban could have disruptive effects on Samsung sales across Europe.

fact that a good portion of Samsung’s distribution system for the region runs through the Netherlands:

sell these devices, the company will now need to ship them into various countries directly.

Samsung is obviously not pleased with the ruling, and has vowed to take “all possible measures including legal action” to ensure there will be no disruption in sales of its devices.

That said, Samsung still has options: the injunction found that Android 2.3 infringed on the patent but Android 3.0 and above did not.

Korean electronics maker needs to do is update the banned phones and the injunction will be un-enforceable, something Judge E.F. Brinkman