HP seems to have found the most efficient way to penetrate the market quickly with WebOS.
After the touchpad it seems the hunt is open for Pre 3. Good luck!



http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391519,00.asp

I don't see anyone selling them yet. To be sure I put a pre-order in with expansys. They have no obligation to buy...

I couldn't find it on expansys. Could you please post a link for it?

I hope this thread stays active to inform about the availability... It's coming

According to a comment left on the article by someone that has contacted HP, the UK shipments will be arriving on Friday.

It's 75 without contract, no strings attached? Wow.

eurostore.palmcentral.com has stock @ £299 but is apparently goign to price cut orders to £100 for those who've already ordered (according to precentral users). However their website is failing to cope with traffic - I've been trying to order one for the past hour and it keeps crashing midway through the order process (havent got beyond giving my billing/shipping info).

EDIT 1: still trying to get my CC details accepted :-((( ... the below is from palm website:

"Special Purchase Conditions
Please note:
A price reduction is expected to be announced in the next 24 hours. This price reduction will apply to a Pre 3 Bundle which will include a number of accessories. To reserve this offer, please order a Pre 3 at the current price and we will refund the difference between the current listed price and the bundle price once the new reduced price has been confirmed. We expect this to be a substantial price reduction. This is a limited time offer while stocks last."

EDIT 2: finally got order processed (after about 90 min's of constant timeouts & pages loading without the neccessary buttons etc. etc.). If you don't give up, you'll get there e-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y :-) I bought it for the wife (her original Pre is on life support ATM) - but with the whole Nokia situation, I may be tempted to keep it myself, hmmm ...

75 dollars or euros?

I want this, but I want the $99 Touchpad much more... damn people buying things I wanna buy grrr

http://www.clove.co.uk/hp-pre-3

thanks for that link Vi_ it is a sensible policy by the retailer.

I'm happy with palm's own website statement (I posted it above) which guaratees that orders on their website will be refunded the difference in price once the firesale price is announced. The UK distance selling reg's will allow me to return the goods unopened anyway, if the discounted price is not near the rumoured £49 ($75) being bandied around in the press today. For me, it is worth getting an order placed now, with a supplier with current stock and a firm commitment to honour the firesale cost.

I tried to buy one, but as other people have mentioned on the web, their servers can't cope. (Seeing as HP is staying in the server/software business, that doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their products).

I'm a bit miffed with this - I quite fancied one before all the price reduction nonsense. Now I probably won't get one because of all the ebay traders snapping them up to resell them on ebay for profit.

Incidentally, the TouchPad has also been cut to a silly price. I don't mind buying one for ~£100. Again I couldn't get one because the second it was announced, all the online stores were swamped with orders - several retailers have had very slow sites or their sites down for most of the day with people trying to buy one.

Where do these people hear about this? I was one of the relatively few people in the world interested in webOS, and after the HP announcement I kept my eye open for price reduction, but was beaten to it by people who'd probably never heard of webOS products before.

*sigh*