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Splashtop HD FREE in US, UK, Germany, and France (Update: All gone)

By: , 9/30/2011 7:40 pm | 34 comments

Splashtop Remote Desktop HD is free, for the second time in as many days, but this time for more than just the US of A.

Palm just released promo codes for Splashtop Remote Desktop HD; one for each: US, UK, Germany, and France. If you want to grab the app, we suggest you download it as soon as is possible.

This is becoming habit over at Palm to give out promo codes for one app every couple weeks as just two weeks ago they gave away Supersonic HD.

Palm also said that if you’re not receiving those promotional emails with a few free apps, you can sign up for them at their promotional signup page. Some of us here haven’t been getting those emails, so we’ve signed up and we recommend you do too.

And now for the promo codes:

US:           gjhia60774xmksz

Germany:  eynwj56018hhrju

UK:           ehshy95442sfusi

France:     kpdvn01559acqwc

As always, if you’re browsing from your TouchPad, just click the link. Now we just wonder why Canada was left out this time, it’s been in on other promos in the past.

Update: The US code is all used up .. that was extremely quick for one of these codes to be all used up

Update 2: And just like that, all of the other codes are used up as well.

[Source: Palm Blog]

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About Arthur Thornton

Arthur is an 18-year-old webOS fanboy and developer. Arthur's first experience with webOS was in August 2009 when he got a Palm Pre. Since then he's owned many of the webOS phones produced, released several loved apps into the App Catalog, and even held an internship with HP's webOS GBU. Fresh off of that internship, Arthur is back at webOSroundup as a contributor.
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  • http://www.webosroundup.com/ DanR

    Wow. That WAS quick!

    • http://www.arthurthornton.net/ Arthur Thornton

      Yep, went so quick the “update” was added prior to the story even going out!

    • Guest

      Any chance of a code for Canada?

      • http://www.arthurthornton.net/ Arthur Thornton

        Palm didn’t put one up, so .. nope, unfortunately not.

  • Anonymous

    mine is stuck on “Purchasing…” for some reason (UK)

  • easy

    never any codes for Ireland

  • [malice]

    worked fine (germany). thanks a lot.

    • santaCruize

      correct! thanks alot!!!!

  • stupidHP

    seriously hating HP…

  • Mamisho

    y Spain??????????????????????????

    • Ae695

      Ya se sabe… África starts in the Perennes. Para llorar

      • Asterix

        Ya te digo… I guess is the price we have to pay since the TP wasnt sold here… That, and the 250+ euros we paid for it

  • cold_stepchild

    why leave canada in the cold? or its cold? Sigh…

  • Smphoto

    I just signed up for the Canada special offers. However the Touchpad was missing from the menu to select your device , so I selected the Pre2. I was one of the lucky touchpad buyers in canada.

  • Naz-uk

    uk code gone :’(

  • Gareth R

    UK code looks like it’s done.
    – sent from webOSroundup XL

  • http://twitter.com/wthh123 helmut heidinger

    hi, did/does work. Thanks! some issues with the screen size, resolution is being reset.
    as this was my first (payable!) application I could install (having my tp since some hours only!): can I migrate that to another palm profile (the one for my veer) I’m going to switch to sson?

  • http://twitter.com/warpdesign_ Nicolas Ramz ♣

    It seems the french code is gone as well: it says “invalid or already used promo code” when clicking on the link on my TouchPad from France…

  • Daveyboy

    Oh man! Too late again.
    – sent from webOSroundup XL

  • Chirurgie

    Ah well already paid for Splashtop which works great. UK Code gone now but happy HP still sending them out.

  • [email protected]

    1 day and code isnt valid anymore…..HP sucks
    – sent from webOSroundup XL

    • http://www.arthurthornton.net/ Arthur Thornton

      There are only so many uses each code has. Don’t get mad at HP, they released these codes approximately 18 hours ago. You can expect these codes to run out of uses within a few hours, I believe they have 5000 uses on them.

  • Greg

    No Canada,   bummer,   ohwell just bought it for %50 off which is a good deal I think
    – sent from webOSroundup XL

  • http://profiles.google.com/zzeevious Zeev Ious

    Would someone please tell HP all this is doing is ANNOYING existing and new TouchPad owners?

    I’ve tried every code since they first started in August and each, and every one was nothing more than going through the App catalog, selecting the item to purchase, typing in the entire promo code just to be told it’s exceeded the use, or no longer valid, or just won’t work.

    How, exactly does this do ANYTHING for me as a customer but frustrate the hell out of me?

    Send ONLY the codes that work to the select random number that they will work for. No one else gets one! No phantom codes, or random location attempts, or tantalizing me with dangling apps I can never get for free…when you just promised them for free, and including some lengthy code that I won’t find out isn’t free until I go right up to the part I should get it for free.

    Then don’t.

    If that’s not negative marketing…what is?

    This last time, I saw the HP email and immediately said “Oh no…not again” and sure enough, nothing worked, nothing was free, but of course I did waste all my time on different units trying the codes.

    Just send the codes to a random selection, up to the limit of the number of codes you have…not everyone and if you happen to get them at 9:32pm you can get in up until 9:34pm! 

    This is as poorly conceived and randomly managed as the entire TouchPad launch followed by the exciting $99 event to build a better TouchPad coffin.

    HP – Either do it right, or don’t bother doing it at all.

    • santacruiZe

      i got 2 apps for free thus far. so i wouldnt complain… thanks hp!

    • lrn2swim

      You’re an idiot. Love it when people complain about free stuff. Just buy the app and quit whining.

      • http://profiles.google.com/zzeevious Zeev Ious

        I agree, if by “You’re” you mean HP. They are idiots.

        It’s not the free apps it’s the frustrating and ill-conceived method of giving them away.
        Think before you call me an idiot…think about this:

        The idiot is the person sending out 500,000 “free” codes for the 5,000 actual free app’s available.
        From my perspective, your sending out 494,999 free disappointments, and nothing more. (+1 for me)

        From your perspective…apparently you don’t see the bigger picture…for every single one of those people who got through to get a free app, there are literally THOUSANDS who just got another HP disappointment.

        I’m sorry I can’t agree with you, not so much that I can’t agree, but that I’m just sorry you don’t see this is what is really happening.

        You have a million customers, you email a free code to them all at some random time in the evening to every single one, for something only a fraction could ever redeem, and everyone hits your app store, and almost everyone ends up just being disappointed and frustrated.

        THAT’S what you call good marketing?

        Think . . . Think Again.

        • Dutch

          All that frustration over a five dollar app. I don’t know what your time is worth, but it would have been more economical for me to buy the app than to write the dissertations you have above.

  • Dutch

    Wow. There is making it right, and then there is outright entitlement. Maybe if you have the TP for free apps you should move on to the fruit or robots because your chance of free apps there are so much better.

    • http://profiles.google.com/zzeevious Zeev Ious

      Dutch . . . I’m entitled to nothing. 

      I am stating the METHOD of giving away these free apps is flawed — in that all your giving out is the guarantee of a thousand frustrated Touchpad owners for each and every free app.Why send out a code to every owner, when you know almost all of them will just end in frustration and disappointment because the code doesn’t really work? Sure. let’s go through the whole process and then, literally AT THE LAST CLICK find out not only did I get nothing, but HP completely wasted my TIME in addition!Is this seriously the message anyone wants to send to their customers? ”HP Update: Not only didn’t you win…but we just screwed you out of the time to put in a code we sent you that doesn’t even work! (Cue: Mocking Laughter) – Thank you for playing…for parting gifts…we have, well…nothing.”Just send out the codes to ONLY the people randomly selected to win the apps. Remove those people from the next round, and send out some more for the next set of apps. Or heck…most people would be happy with just ONE free app, but putting in code and lengthy code over and over…to have them all fail, because you didn’t get the 9:47pm email during the time between 9:47pm and 9:52pm that the code actually worked?Really? I am the only person this frustrates the hell out of?This promotion sucks more than dangling a carrot over the edge of a cliff in front of a near-sighted horse that only now, understands the concept of gravity….am I clear now?

      • Dutch

        I don’t see it that way. It was a giveaway. I didn’t win this time. Bummer. Apparently you had a lot more riding on it than me.

      • Dutch

        I know. I get so pissed at McDonalds everytime I get Marvin Gardens instead of a free saandwich. Don’t they see they are just frustrating their patrons? C’mon. It seems like a lot of rationalizations to support the fact that you just weren’t lucky this time. Guess what? Neither was I. I’m not that upset about it.

  • kit7kat

    I decided to buy, tired of time wasting.  

    • http://profiles.google.com/zzeevious Zeev Ious

      I agree completely, it’s a waste of time.

      All HP Is accomplishing is annoying the larger group they themselves have made “losers”

      Here’s how it should work:

      Pick the winners in advance, but send only ONE winning code out to each of them. 
      Give them the same 4-free apps, but they choose which one they want out of 4. 
      This lets you send almost 4 times as many winning codes out to Touchpad owners, for 4 times the winners, and 4 times the happy Touchpad owners…with no disappointments or frustration! 

      Take those winners out of the list, and email the next round to everyone who didn’t win.

      This way, you actually get more app sales (that is what promotions are really about, anyway) 
      Everyone still see all the apps, but winners only get 1 free of their choice. 
      4 times as many winners get codes in each round. 
      Only people who haven’t won yet, are eligible for new codes. 
      No one is disappointed. No one wastes time or is frustrated. 

      This is the way to market a promotion, without creating an entire group of frustrated annoyed “losers” 
      EVERYONE is happy, while technically you’re also giving away less of the free-prizes, with more satisfied owners being able to pick their own.

      Please, stop this frustrating game of app-loser-roulette.

      HP…are you listening?