HP Internally Promises webOS Tablet by Q1 2011
HP Internally Promises webOS Tablet by Q1 2011
Posted 08/10/2010 at 4:59pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Everyone's been expecting a webOS tablet to come out of the HP purchase of Palm. Now there are some whispers from HP employees that a webOS tablet is coming by Q1 of 2011. Apparently, HP's VP of Personal Systems, Todd Bradley let it slip in an employee meeting just yesterday. Bradley also confirmed that the project is internally known as "Hurricane", which jives with some earlier rumors.
Palm filed for a trademark on "PalmPad" not long ago, so it appears the pieces are falling into place. Little has been heard from Palm since the acquisition, and Palm execs are jumping ship at an astounding rate. We worry about what this means for the vision Palm had 18 months ago when we first saw the Pre. It's also a concern that the product is targeted for Q1 2011. If that slips even a little, people may have moved on and forgotten about webOS. Do you think a webOS slate can make a splash that late in the game?
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August 11, 2010 at 11:07am
I beleive that the Palm web os was a great product. I purchased a Pre onlaunch day and was very very pleased with it. It was responsive and did everything. the apps as cards idea was extremely well implemented,I think Palm would have liked to bring out more devices ala Android and that would have helped....
I think my Pre was a trifle underpowered for the robustness of the OS and thought that it would be great to see it on a tablet. I hope this doesnt turn out to be vaporware.
I would like to see someone create a web os distro(?) that would work on android devices much like my brother had android running on his win mo phone.
Keith E. Whisman
August 11, 2010 at 9:15am
I wish they would quit making promises and just give us a date and do it already. Sometimes you just have to make a blind leap of faith like what Apple did with it's dumb dumb Ipad.
Mister Friendly
August 10, 2010 at 5:16pm
If HP can keep itself from imploding from within they stand the greatest chance to bring the truest ipad killer to market. HP industrial design combined with their proprietary OS (WebOS) levels the playing field with apple on all counts and allows them to finesse the final product to the same degree. In the end we all win. Not that your hysterical idiot fanboys will see it as such. And by them I mean you, Ryan.
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