The Microsoft Store site in the UK is now accepting pre-orders for £749 for the HP Elite x3 phone with Windows 10 Mobile. The price of the phone includes its Desk Dock accessory.
The official listing for the phone (via Neowin) calls it the HP Elite X3 Business Pack. Most buyers will likely be happy that the Dest Dock accessory will be included with the phone, as it will allow it to be used like a PC, when connected to a mouse, keyboard and large monitor. The Microsoft Store UK site says that shipments of the phone are scheduled to begin on August 18.
So far, pre-orders have yet to officially launch in the U.S. for the HP Elite x3 and there's no word on when that might happen.
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HP Elite x3 and Desk Dock pre-orders go live on Microsoft Store UK site for £749
:))) 749 GPB WTF???
Also now available to order in Australia http://h20386.www2.hp.com/AustraliaStore/Merch/Product.aspx?sel=NTB&id=Y...
It's $1,199 with No Dock which is roughly 685 pounds.
Just bought a princess costume in my size from Android for half this price. Would have bought one from Microsoft, but they didn't want my money.
Will keep my 930 to monitor development and hope to come back to Windows in the future.
I loved my Verizon lumia icon (929). What a great phone. Would like the same phone with upgraded specs.
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Enterprise focused, high specs, spartan but hopefully tough shell, work pays for it for employees to use for work. If you get this for personal use its cause you enjoy the OS, don't need the apps to live your life, understand UWP, and show support for MS vision of the future.
Getting offended because it's not good enough for you is like getting pissed at disney princess costumes for not being carried in your size.
Go ahead trolls, explain why you should have a princess costume in your size. :)
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I was so excited for this phone to be released, then of course hp had to set price at a night that no common consumer will be able to purchase it. I just want these manufactures to release a budget windows phone with continuum support and maybe windows hello. I know those features up the price of a phone by a couple hundred dollars, but at least try. That way they will be able to get more interest in the windows mobile platforms. But until then the the Windows Mobile market share is only going to continue to decrease.
Elite X3 and desk dock on pre order with clove in UK. Will get lap dock too :)
I need to post again sorry. So major supermarkets in the UK let's bring up Pepsi 2L bottle for £2.08 while it's not on promotion. While in pound shop obviously it's £1.00. And in off licence shops it's price marked either £1.69 or 2 for £2.00. Where will you go? If thse. If companies want their product to succeed fhey need to reduce the price otherwise almost no buyers. I want this phone but too expensive. I'm not poor but don't accept these companies ripping us off.
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I would order but way too expensive. I'm happy with my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL and HTC ONE M10
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Wow, never seen this blue hue of the screen when not seen from front before... Probably far worst than the 950XL.
I still don't understand how it works with the dock thing, does it disconnect from continuum if it is removed from the dock to get a call? If not, what's the purpose of the dock, a cable isn't more practical?
Well, it's not cheap, but it's aimed for entreprise, so, it should be ok.
Will the price drop £99 if they drop the dock, I know it's a business phone but I have no use for it as I don't care for continum as a lot of other people who just need a high quality phone.
Is it a high quality phone? Faux metal doesn't seem high quality to me. Especially after seeing the Moto Z, iPhone, Galaxy S and HTC 10. After holding those devices, it is hard to call see the quality in a fake phone.
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Continuum is great, I use it full time at work, it replaced my desktop PC completely with 950xl.
Super expensive and the mobile OS is super BETA!
actual pc would be cheaper
including a phone
Is this costlier than latest iPhone? I am not trying to troll but just checking :)
No, period.
TouchVPN isn't working on mobile and now pc as well after anniversary update..anyone know why?
because the entire VPN is broken on mobile..l2tp fails, pptp connects unencrypted etc
Can't wait for it to release in the Middle East will be one of the first ones in line to buy it
Woah... 950 for £319/950XL for £379 with free display dock or this HP for £749... Yeah the spec is better (camera aside) but I've had the 950 since December 3rd last year and W10M is still a buggy mess. It's usable, but probably not even worth the £130 I paid for the better half's 650 a few months back. Embarrassingly laggy, crashes often, and generally like windows of old, gets slower and less reliable over time. Complete reversal of the rock that WP7/7.5 and WP8 were. :(
what??? That is totally not what I see with my 950. It has been a rock with the insider builds lately.. w10 looks pretty good right now!! yeah a occasional crash here and there lol.. but nothing too crazy
Have to admit my 950XL has been brilliant. No problems at all.
I was thinking the same thing, W10 is looking great and my only issue is the phone screen gets a hot sometimes but that's about it
Yeah, I'm gonna follow on from the other replies to this and say I got my 950XL just a month after you did and I've never had a problem with it, it's been lightning fast and very reliable. And I haven't touched the Insider program, I'm on the consumer release.
Don't suppose you've tried a factory reset?
So your answer to slowdown, is a factory reset every time they start running slow. That's a fantastic way to appeal to consumers. Windows just became Froyo, requiring a monthly factory reset to keep it in check!!
Uh no.
I asked whether you had tried a factory reset because it's the logical thing to first attempt when you have a device that is repeatedly behaving as you described.
A reset can wipe the OS and start again, hopefully with everything in the right order. I didn't say you should do it every time you see a 'resuming' screen, just whether you'd given it a shot once.
Judging by your reaction, that was a no. I'd suggest it.
With any device released, some users experience buggy devices. Windows, Apple, Android, some people get the bugs. I'm sorry that you were one of those unlucky ones, but you were. You've seen comments from others that should show you your device's behaviour is abnormal for a 950.
I merely suggested a way to help fix the problem, take it or leave it, but with a sarcastic response like that you ain't getting more from me.
I doubt you are using windows 10 !
Okay, so what OS am I using? A 950 and 650 "only" run W10M. It started fine, but gradually the OS has deteriorated. If you reinstall the OS every time there's been an update, I can imagine it will be fine. But I'm not doing that, shouldn't have to. Unfortunately, after 5 years of using WP, this will be my final handset. Once it gets smashed, I'm jumping over to iPhone. It's a shame, because I don't need the apps, I don't need the design, but what I do need is reliability and stability. The stability of the OS is absolutely shocking, and if the Anniversary update doesn't solve it (I'm going to reinstall on both handsets) then its the end of the road for me. Early adopter of both the 950 and 650, die hard MS fan, and I'm leaving... Says a lot for the future of windows phone. I won't say RIP because we use them in work (640's) and they'll continue to do okay in enterprise, but as far as WP goes, its dead for consumers, and enterprise will die to if Microsoft don't resolve all the issues, and fast. Resuming screens shouldn't be happening on a phone with 3GB RAM, windows memory management is non-existent - one area where WP excelled against lagdroid in previous iterations. A little bit of typing on this WPCentral app, and wowwwwwww it is slowwwwwwwww, to the point of painfully slow, to the point of unusable. Goodbye Microsoft, it appears Nadella is doing to W10M what Elop did to Nokia.
PS. Lets face it, we've all paid a lot of money to join in a BETA test program. The fact that Microsoft wont launch the Surface phone until RS2 (the platform ill be dead by then) speaks volumes about how bad and unfinished the OS is.
Liar, ship me your device so I can check it, because everyone I know with then running the last 3-4 builds are running fine.
Don't feed the troll, I have had the 950XL since day 1 and no issues, except when I went looking for them on the previews. I have been on the consumer release for months with out any problems.
Don't feed the troll? So you're saying myself (with a 950) and my other half (with a 650 - on my recommendation she ditched android!) are trolls simply because Microsoft launched an unfinished (by their own admission) heap of junk and tried to pass it off as a consumer-ready product.
There's a reason Microsoft are reluctant to market the 950 or the 650 (one of the nicest designed smartphones on the budget sector right now). Because the OS is so far behind their own expectations, they know they'll be slaughtered by the masses if the phones were adopted in large volumes, and it would be the death knell for W10M.
Doesn't Nadella use an iPhone? Speaks volumes... I'm a die-hard Microsoft fan, but anyone who thinks got one minute that W10M is stable or even competitive now, is deluded. Once the Nokia droid phones launch, and bring all the Nokia camera tech with them, where is there for Microsoft to go? They'll have plenty of tech for enterprise (security, continuum etc), but for consumers, the phones will have little to no appeal, and the platform will be all-but-dead. I don't see Nintendo rushing to release Pokemon Go on W10M or even UWP, if it was a brilliant platform they would be there by now. For the record I have no interest in these novelty apps or games in general, but it's true that apps like that do mean make or break for a lot of people. The same as the likes of Snapchat.
Hence my belief that when this 950 is finished for me, the choice will be Android or iOS, as I feel W10M wont have a competitive OS or handset to choose. So I will drift across to Apple as I don't trust droid in the slightest, and it's almost embarrassing watching friends whose iPhones just "work" whilst my 950 lags, slows, has to resume, crashes, runs out of memory and restarts, etc... :(
this guy is right. wtf? fanboys voted him down
I want the pseudo-laptop thing, for my 950xl...
This. I need a new laptop but for the price I want to spend I'll end up with something worse than my 950. Sell me the laptop thing on its own for £200 and I'll buy it now
http://www.zdnet.com/article/laptop-dock-for-android-the-99-superbook/
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US will launch August 29
They were available for Pre-Order yesterday here:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Edp...
They use the term "Tablet PC" with "smartphone technology" so people don't think windows phone...
Is it still available today?
I am at work, so I can't check.
This one is one rigerdirect is for phone only. $799. expensive.
previsously rumored $699.
UK preorder is for phone and desktop dock.
Meaning we should have the AU on mobile until then
UK before US people...
Shut up
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Only 1000$ Not bad.