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HP TouchPad 32GB Wi-Fi Tablet
$194.99 + $5 Shipping
Condition: Refurbished

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I got one of these when it was offered recently (5/18). I can't wait until it gets here! Well, I have to but I don't want to wait, I want it now!

Picked one up during the fire sale. I have Android on it (takes time, but safe) and it works faster than any android tablet I've played with.

ROAR $5 cheaper EVERYONE MAKE ANGRY COMMENTS!

Needs to drop down another 50 before I will jump on this.

Thought about buying but it's apparently going for less on ebay (around $150), at least recently: http://www.ebay.com/sch/iPads-Tablets-eBook-Readers-/171485/i.html?_nkw=hp+touchpad+32gb&LH_Complete=1&_pgn=2&_skc=50&rt=nc

A good device prematurely sunk by the dodo-heads that have been running HP the last few years.

Every time woot! has one of these, I am tempted. But somehow manage to refrain from purchasing. When they are gone, I have regret, for about 10 minutes....

achyder wrote:Picked one up during the fire sale. I have Android on it (takes time, but safe) and it works faster than any android tablet I've played with.

Battery life running Android (CM7 or CM9) isn't so hot, though. I've been leaving mine running WebOS most of the time and booting to CM9 when I need to.

Will this run an older game, like Civ III?

I stay far, far away from anything HP or Compaq. I've had nothing except problems from most electronic devices I have bought from them. Computer, keyboard/mouse combos, monitors, and cameras. The only thing I haven't had many issues with are their printers, but I just bought a Canon and the quality is far superior to the comparable HP in price.

Just my rant about HP. I've also had friends and family that have had excellent luck with HPs and my grandma still has an 6-year-old HP humming along without any problems. I just personally wrote them off my acceptable buy list.

DarbX1605 wrote:Will this run an older game, like Civ III?

does civ III run on webos? android? are their emulators that will run it under one of those OSes?

DarbX1605 wrote:Will this run an older game, like Civ III?

...kind of. WebOS doesn't have a Civ III game by itself. You can probably get by with a remote desktop app (either in WebOS or Android) and use a home computer to actually run the game (tablet just controls it). There are several RD apps in Android, but never bothered to look for one in WebOS.

Buy it! and install Android. This thing is awesome. Last time it came on the woot off I bought another. If you have even marginal tech abilities you can watch the youtube videos and get it installed.

ivanivanovich wrote:A good device prematurely sunk by the dodo-heads that have been running HP the last few years.

True that.
But, if HP hadn't bailed, they would be selling for 400, not 200 as now.

peanut-butter jelly time

somnambulator wrote:does civ III run on webos? android? are their emulators that will run it under one of those OSes?

Try looking here https://www.google.com/, it should have your answers.

Bought mine early this year (paid $15 more,) it looks and acts like new. It is well worth the wait. If I had the funds I would be buying a back-up device today. Great deal.
Wonder if these ever show up in a Bundles of Clones

$200 tablet i can hack the crap out of that sold for $600 last year? i41!

Anyone have any ideas as to the extent of the refurb? I know...tough question, but ya never know unless you ask.

trash compactor

NO APO FPO or DPO shipping on any of these products that contain Lithium Batteries
.

The prohibition on mailing lithium batteries and cells internationally also applies to mail sent by commercial air transportation to and from an APO, FPO, or DPO location.

Small consumer-type primary lithium cells or batteries (lith­ium metal or lithium alloy) like those used to power cameras and flashlights are mailable domestically. . . Mailing batteries internationally, or to and from APO, FPO, or DPO destinations, is prohibited regard­less of mail class. See IMM 136 for details.



http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22336/html/updt_004.htm

GPS, CAMERAS, Watches, Ipods, Tablets , even desktop computers if the battery inside for the bios backup is a lithium or lithium ion CR2032 and similar coin batteries are Lithium as well.

Some android:

http://rootzwiki.com/forum/232-hp-touchpad-android-development

Installing CM9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHoQM3KW1sU

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/33227-alpha-cyanogenmod-7-for-the-hp-touchpad-v710-alpha-35-22-nov-2011-dont-link-directly-to-files/

And a prevous wootie woot:

http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=4825548

Worst Woot Ever.

I can't recommend this tablet enough. Yea iPads are more popular and have more apps but chances are you're just going to be surfing the internet and checking e-mail anyway and after 6 months its going to sit under a pile of papers on your table.

The Beats audio is legit. Also you can pair it with some Palm or Android phones and send sms from the device or receive phone calls on it from your phone.

achyder wrote:Try looking here https://www.google.com/, it should have your answers.

Eh..Good luck with your no name search engine. I doubt that site will be around for long. Yahoo is the king and always be.

These things are like bad pennies... they always keep turning up

Woot woot woot , is this not the SAME tablet for the SAME price you had a couple of days ago ?? Yes it is for shame woot for shame

realistik wrote:Needs to drop down another 50 before I will jump on this.

Too funny

Darn thought for a minute this would be the one with the windows OS on it. Don't ask me why I would actually want that, but I kind of do. =/

eXonerator wrote:NO APO FPO or DPO shipping on any of these products that contain Lithium Batteries
.

The prohibition on mailing lithium batteries and cells internationally also applies to mail sent by commercial air transportation to and from an APO, FPO, or DPO location.

Small consumer-type primary lithium cells or batteries (lith­ium metal or lithium alloy) like those used to power cameras and flashlights are mailable domestically. . . Mailing batteries internationally, or to and from APO, FPO, or DPO destinations, is prohibited regard­less of mail class. See IMM 136 for details.


http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22336/html/updt_004.htm

GPS, CAMERAS, Watches, Ipods, Tablets , even desktop computers if the battery inside for the bios backup is a lithium or lithium ion CR2032 and similar coin batteries are Lithium as well.

Wut?

nmumark wrote:Eh..Good luck with your no name search engine. I doubt that site will be around for long. Yahoo is the king and always be.

Laughing my arse off! :D

would be nice if one of the items on this woot off were a touchstone charger...at a great price.

kbwoof15 wrote:I can't recommend this tablet enough. Yea iPads are more popular and have more apps but chances are you're just going to be surfing the internet and checking e-mail anyway and after 6 months its going to sit under a pile of papers on your table.

The Beats audio is legit. Also you can pair it with some Palm or Android phones and send sms from the device or receive phone calls on it from your phone.

Kind of why I haven't bought a tablet yet. The only thing I would regularly use it for is displaying recipes when I'm cook (right now I use my phone and it is kind of a pain). Other then that, I don't think I would use it over my computer to surf Internet, check email, check Facebook, or watch YouTube videos (and I don't want to buy Hulu Plus for tv shows). We don't have kids so we don't need something in the car to keep them entertained on car trips. Also I have an eReader which is much lighter weight then any tablet I've seen and the battery lasts me two weeks with heavy reading. I just haven't seen much value in tablets and I work with them quite frequently at work.

Then again when I'm at home I try to limit my interaction with technology as much as possible. When you spend 40-60 hours a week in IT the last thing you want to do is deal with more computers. I spend maybe 3 hours a week outside of work on my computer/watching tv. Having an ultra portable bit of technology to be tied to is definitely not appealing.

nmumark wrote:Eh..Good luck with your no name search engine. I doubt that site will be around for long. Yahoo is the king and always be.

Yahoo is just a copy cat of Ask Jeeves.

Dumb question from a computer illiterate, but can you use the video calling to talk with someone on an ipad with facetime? I'd like to get this for my mom and that's a big reason she would use it.

Sidney0109 wrote:Dumb question from a computer illiterate, but can you use the video calling to talk with someone on an ipad with facetime? I'd like to get this for my mom and that's a big reason she would use it.

No

I think they need to just move on to the next Woot-Off item and throw the rest of these in the next Brick of Carbonite.

Too bad it's HP.