{"id":32904,"date":"2011-08-31T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32904"},"modified":"2011-08-31T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T07:56:30","slug":"hp-tablet-pc%e2%80%99s-final-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/32904-hp-tablet-pc%e2%80%99s-final-run.html","title":{"rendered":"HP tablet PC\u2019s final run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the discontinuation of the Touchpad tablet PC, <a title=\"HP Hewlett Packard\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307341-HP-Hewlett-Packard\">HP<\/a> is set to produce one final \u201climited quantity\u201d run of the device before the end of October to meet demand for the unit.<\/p>\n<p>The likely scenario is that this is a move to clear out excess stock of Touchpad components rather than an attempt to revive the failed device.<\/p>\n<p>While the Touchpad has been discontinued, the device was a success at its clearance price of only $99 (around R700). In addition to this, HP is issuing a few updates and an assortment of free apps to device users. Developers around the internet are also working on a build of the <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> operating system to run on the Touchpad.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Anandtech news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/4704\/hp-to-produce-one-more-run-of-touchpads\" target=\"_blank\">Anandtech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP is set to produce one last run of the now discontinued Touchpad to meet demand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":32014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,3868,2012],"class_list":["post-32904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-hp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32908,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32904\/revisions\/32908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}