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HP will cut the price of its Pre 3 smartphone to £49
MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP will follow up its Touchpad fire sale by flogging its Pre 3 smartphone for £49.
The Telegraph is claiming that HP will cut the price of the Pre 3 by £250 to just £49 without a contract. Last week The INQUIRER reported that no major UK mobile operator would be picking up the device, though it has been available through retailers SIM-free for £300, but not for much longer.
HP's Pre 3 smartphone was pretty keenly priced even at £300, considering its hardware, which consists of a 1.4GHz Snapdragon chip, a 480x800 3.58in screen and 8GB of memory. We briefly tried one at Mobile World Congress and were impressed with the speed of the device, but for £49 the Pre 3 is undoubtedly a steal.
The INQUIRER tried to contact HP but couldn't get a response and at press time most major phone retailers were still pricing the Pre 3 at £299 or above. There aren't likely to be many Pre 3 devices about given that the mobile networks didn't want to carry the handset, so the question on everyone's lips is when will retailers take machetes to their price tags.
Ironically, HP's fire sale of WebOS devices has generated Apple-like levels of interest. µ
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I've been wanting a Pre 3 since Xmas and was hoping to be the only person in the UK that wanted one as everyone else was 'too cool for skool' and turning their noses up at it.
Now all those buggers have one for next to nothing and I cant find one!
Typical.
I have looked everywhere online yet no 1 seems 2 b selling these at all.Apart from the few that are selling at full original price. Most places have removed the phone even before the price cut. I shall get up early 2moror and hope 2 be the first inline 2 buy 1!