We have no idea how HP’s first Wi-fi mouse did when they introduced it earlier this year, but apparently, they’re sticking with the concept. HP has just unveiled a successor, the X7000 Wi-Fi Touch Mouse that improves on the original’s basic design. Like the original (and like the name says), the X7000 Wi-Fi Touch Mouse doesn’t need a free USB port or a Bluetooth connection to hook up with a PC. Instead, it connects via Wi-fi, which lets it work up to 30 feet away from a computer.
Last time we heard of HP’s TouchPad Go, it was going through the usual pre-launch FCC filing back in August. But that was before HP decided to drop their webOS projects, which meant that it was a tablet that we weren’t likely going to see again. Well, for some reason, it surfaced again, at least in a bunch of photos from Chinese site Palmjoy.
If you didn’t notice the sudden rush for HP TouchPads last weekend, here’s what went down: after HP announced that they were shutting down their webOS hardware operations, they slashed the HP TouchPad’s price again, shortly after they dropped the price down to $400 earlier this month. Last week, they went for broke and offered the TouchPad for $100 (for the 16GB version). Never mind that this tablet might not be seeing any support from HP in the near future, but that price drop was enough for them to clear stock. HP’s page is now listing the TouchPad as ‘sold out.’
If you were planning on picking up an HP TouchPad tablet after the recent price drops, well, you might want to mull things over. HP has announced that they’ll be discontinuing operations for their webOS hardware – TouchPad and webOS phone included. Why? In a nutshell, it’s no secret that webOS didn’t really make any dent in a market dominated by iOS and Android devices, and when you consider that webOS trails the rest of the players (BlackBerry OS, Symbian and Windows Phone) in market share… let’s just say they just reached the breaking point of the “make or break” meter.
Rumors of a 7-inch HP TouchPad tablet has been going around for a couple of months now, but this bit of news confirms it. A filing for a tablet called the TouchPad Go just turned up at the FCC, offering some details for what HP is up to: labels for the tablet list a spec that includes a “1.5G” component, which likely means that it’s going to rock the same 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor used on the TouchPad 4G.
