HP has offered TouchPad early - adopters a $ 50 App Catalog credit, in an attempt to stem the tide of ill - feeling after the company discounted
the webOS slate so soon after it went on sale.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today enlarged the HP webOS world with the first
webOS slate --- the HP TouchPad — the breakthrough webOS user interface fully realized in the tablet experience.
Last summer's # 89 fire sale of HP TouchPads was greeted with such a ravenous appetite that most stores sold out of
the webOS slate within minutes.
Bank of Montreal Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman met up with some tech companies lately, most notably Inventec, whom is manufacturing the HP
WebOS slate for next year.
We may hear of decisive release dates for the HP Hurricane
WebOS slate once the deal with Palm is finalized, around July 2010.
HP was not ready to talk about possible time lines as to when
a WebOS slate or WebOS Netbooks would be available, but said it planned to increase the $ 190 million Palm was spending annually on research and development.
This tablet needs to hit the market well before the next iteration of the iPad, and at least as quickly as whatever
WebOS slate HP is working on right now.
Not exact matches
Bradley said several times HP will «invest heavily» in
WebOS, and use it on
slate PCs, Netbooks, and phones.
They now have a desire to put out a
slate running
webOS which they obtained through their acquisition
webOS which they obtained through their acquisition of Palm.
Announcing the acquisition deal, Palo Alto from California based HP said, «Palm will be responsible for
webOS software development and
webOS - based hardware products, from a robust smartphone roadmap to future
slate PCs and netbooks».
We're just over three weeks away from the HP TouchPad making its entrance into the tablet market, which is exciting not only because we really want to get our hands on the
slate, but also because it's great to see some more fresh
webOS hardware arriving on store shelves.
Lets hope that other HP
slates get developed and shipped, like their
WebOS one in the works and others.
One of the hotly anticipated devices launching July 1 is the HP TouchPad, a new addition to the ever - expanding family of touch screen tablets
slated to use the
webOS operating system.
HP executive vice president Todd Bradley said the US computer giant was developing tablet, or
slate, computers using the
WebOS operating system of newly acquired Palm but had not abandoned the US software giant.
Hewlett - Packard has killed off tablets based on its own
webOS mobile operating system, but it's still in the tablet game and working with Microsoft on new
slates.
I guess if HP thinks its
webOS tablets are going to be the month's best gadget porn, then this counts as foreplay: an oh - so - brief glimpse of the purported Palm
slate peeking out from the shadows.
«I think you'll see us with a family of
slate products, clearly a Microsoft product in the enterprise, and a
WebOS product broadly deployed,» Bradley said on stage at the conference, seated beside Rubinstein.
The untimely demise of
webOS phones and the Touchpad tablet involves a root certificate that is
slated to expire on July 23, 2013.
All HP needs to do is to create a
slate then port
WebOS, tie it to the PALM App store.