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RUMOR: TouchPad to cost 499/599 Euros?

By: , 3/17/2011 11:21 am | 15 comments

Heise Online strikes again. Yesterday they reported that the Veer was coming to Germany’s O2 network in May (this was later confirmed on Twitter).

Today they are announcing that, according to their sources, that the TouchPad will cost 499 Euros for the 16 GB version and 599 for the 32 GB version.

This rings true because the rumored price in the US is the same and for the last while most companies have been pricing their devices the same in both Euros and dollars.

This also puts it right in line with iPad 2 prices…

Want to learn more about the TouchPad? See all the specs right here.

You can also see a video of it in action during our demo at the Think Beyond event.

You guys happy with this pricing?

Source: Heise Online

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  • PalmOn

    Don’t care. All I want is the Pre 3. Already got an iPad. Veer is useless given the need for the external headphone adaptor. Just want the Pre 3 so that I can have the latest outdated HP/Palm “smart” phone.

    • JDM

      Yeah, I’m really disappointed with the headphone jack adapter on the Veer, but I could probably live without it… It does defeat the purpose of having space for music, though. Bluetooth headphones?

      • Capt4chris

        Oh yeah! BT headphones, touchstone, WiFi Media Sync. I don’t have to plug anything into my phone!!

      • Capt4chris

        Oh yeah! BT headphones, touchstone, WiFi Media Sync. I don’t have to plug anything into my phone!!

    • JDM

      Yeah, I’m really disappointed with the headphone jack adapter on the Veer, but I could probably live without it… It does defeat the purpose of having space for music, though. Bluetooth headphones?

  • Anonymous

    Sounds good to me, Baxter. Too bad for our EU brethren that the USD is so weak (and too bad for America, really). That would be 499€ ~$699. Now I wonder what the 7″ Opal will cost…

    • TreoRies (Netherlands)

      A $499,- TouchPad should be €359,- according to my currency converter ;-)

      • Anonymous

        That’s correct, $499 is about €359, but €499 IS $699, too. ;-)

        • Anonymous

          Don’t forgett that these prices in $ are usually without taxes. In Europe they are already with taxes. So 499 € is (19%) 419,32 € without taxes which are $ 587,89. Ok, this still is much more than in the US… but I already got used to it that we get ripped off by American companies over here, even if the devices are made in China ^^

          So actually I was expecting the Touchpad to be 499 € and I also am expecting the price to drop well beyond the iPad 2s price afterwards (some months later).

        • Anonymous

          Don’t forgett that these prices in $ are usually without taxes. In Europe they are already with taxes. So 499 € is (19%) 419,32 € without taxes which are $ 587,89. Ok, this still is much more than in the US… but I already got used to it that we get ripped off by American companies over here, even if the devices are made in China ^^

          So actually I was expecting the Touchpad to be 499 € and I also am expecting the price to drop well beyond the iPad 2s price afterwards (some months later).

  • John K.

    It seems to me with all the talk of putting webOs on PC’s, netbooks, printers and tablets, and the lack of any news of the Pre3, that just maybe HP didn’t really buy Palm to use in the mobile area at all. I know, I know, they announced it and even had 1 to play with but the Veer and TouchPad are the only units with any hard release dates and there hasn’t been any word of the Pre3 since then, just sometime in summer.

    • Anonymous

      They didn’t buy them to be ONLY on the mobile space. In fact they bought Palm to make WebOS one of their main focus.

      They don’t want to just create one or four phones a year and sell them and maybe add some two or three tablets a year to it. They want to create a whole eco-system of WebOS-enabled devices (whether they actually run WebOS or not) to bind you into HP devices and to set them apart of all the other technology companies, which only can use Android or Windows Phone 7 and try to do some customizing on it…

      Don’t let yourself fooled, HP has just started to set the course of their company and it takes long to do this with such a big one as HP. You will see how WebOS gets stabilised and re-established this year and then you will see how it gets steamed up by next year and really gets wide success and recognition. Will they outsell Apple? Probably not. Will they outsell the dozen Android-manufactures? Probably not either. Will somebody recognise that you are actually using an HP device on the street? Yes. Will you get a bit of developer-love? You can be sure as hell that all important ones will have their WebOS-App prepared by then. The only one who will loose is WP7, which started too late and by next year will be already outclassed by all the other mobile OSes.

    • Anonymous

      They didn’t buy them to be ONLY on the mobile space. In fact they bought Palm to make WebOS one of their main focus.

      They don’t want to just create one or four phones a year and sell them and maybe add some two or three tablets a year to it. They want to create a whole eco-system of WebOS-enabled devices (whether they actually run WebOS or not) to bind you into HP devices and to set them apart of all the other technology companies, which only can use Android or Windows Phone 7 and try to do some customizing on it…

      Don’t let yourself fooled, HP has just started to set the course of their company and it takes long to do this with such a big one as HP. You will see how WebOS gets stabilised and re-established this year and then you will see how it gets steamed up by next year and really gets wide success and recognition. Will they outsell Apple? Probably not. Will they outsell the dozen Android-manufactures? Probably not either. Will somebody recognise that you are actually using an HP device on the street? Yes. Will you get a bit of developer-love? You can be sure as hell that all important ones will have their WebOS-App prepared by then. The only one who will loose is WP7, which started too late and by next year will be already outclassed by all the other mobile OSes.

  • IUbrian

    One point I don’t remember seeing anyone making about price (though I’m sure I just missed it) is that pricing the TouchPad too low is as bad as pricing it too high. It could be the best piece of hardware on the market, but people will assume it’s ‘cheap.’ It screams “hey, we’re not as good as an Ipad, so why pretend.” And if you think, “well, sell it cheap to establish a userbase, like Xbox,” I would suggest that the tablet market is different. If you jump in saying that you’re the best, or very good tablet, and price it like junk, that’s how people will perceive you, and changing that perception will be as hard as getting a toe-hold in the first place. A tablet isn’t like a printer – sell it cheap and make a killing on consumables. And unlike the Xbox analogy, you’re not talking about essentially one competitor in the genre. If you want consumers to treat you like a big boy, you have to act like your a big boy.

  • JoeZiehmer

    I converted to an Android ePad for about $150 USD. Pretty sad really that our dollar is falling all the while the Conserva-commies wage war on teachers and State unions.