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Shortly after announcing a blockbuster deal to
acquire Palm, HP confessed that it would be "
doubling down on webOS," with near-term plans to "scale it across multiple connected devices." We took the liberty at that point to assume this meant that a larger webOS-based device was at least sitting around in the rear of someone's mind, and now it sounds as if Palm loyalists may actually have something tangible to look forward to. According to an unsubstantiated report over at the
Examiner, an "insider at HP" has informed the site that "a webOS tablet under the code name HP Hurricane could be released the third quarter of this year." This all lines up well with what we've heard over the past few weeks: HP pledged to take webOS to places it
has never been, strong whispers emerged that the HP Slate
was being shelved, and now, people close to the HP camp have given a name to a purported webOS tablet slated for Q3. There's obviously no telling if this is simply hot air being blown, but we wouldn't be shocked to see HP nail down a webOS slate in time for the sure-to-be-rockin' 2010 holiday buying season. Or maybe we're just crossing our fingers, humming aloud and praying to our lucky stars that this all pans out.
[Thanks, Mike and Trever]
webOS-based HP Hurricane tablet rumored for Q3 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 May 2010 19:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under th report, industry insiders, web os, webos, q3, slate, hurricane, nbsp, hp, palm |
Here's a brief history of the internet's infatuation with the idea of a Web OS tablet: First we heard that
HP was buying Palm. Interesting! Then we heard that the Windows 7-running
HP Slate was canceled. Very interesting. Now, a post on the Examiner citing "industry insiders" says that a WebOS tablet dubbed "Hurricane" could be arriving as soon as Q3 of this year. It certainly seems like HP would try to get such a product out as quickly as possible, though there's nothing in this report that's substantial enough to get too excited about. Still, I want to believe, and so I will. [
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Interesting post by our friend Harry McCracken at
Technologizer today, pointing out that HP's gone dead silent about the
Slate ever since it announced
plans to acquire Palm. Harry was at The Big Money's Untethered conference today, and HP CTO Phil McKinney was on stage, where he "talked about the downsides of using existing operating systems for new types of devices" and "extolled the virtues of webOS." Interesting topic, since the Slate very prominently ran Windows 7. When pressed, Phil said he couldn't talk about unreleased products, which is a big change: it's been six months since Steve Ballmer first
showed the Slate at CES, and since then HP's produced
several rah-rah videos, one of them featuring none other than
Phil McKinney himself.
Harry takes this new silence to mean that the
HP Slate is dead, and we're beginning to think he's right: although we haven't heard anything definite, we definitely noticed HP's absence at
tablet-heavy Computex, and at this rate, the Slate's
rumored 1.6GHz Atom Z530 will be hopelessly out of date by the time it launches -- Intel's now showing off
Moorestown Atom Z600 tablets and it's got the Windows-tablet focused
Oak Trail Atom planned for early next year. The window's closing a little more with every passing day -- at this point, HP needs to come clean just so we can all move on to waiting for the
Hurricane.
What's going on with the HP Slate? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A tropical disturbance that has dumped heavy rain on parts of the Caribbean has a medium chance of forming into a much stronger storm and could head into the oil-tainted Gulf of Mexico by next week.
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Hurricane season is upon us, which means that, unfortunately, there's a good chance that someone will need disaster relief shelter at some point this summer or autumn. Enter the new fold flat shelter by German designer Adrian Lippmann. This intriguing structure is shipped flat, but turns into an unsupported mini-house after basic assembly, which entails manually folding the walls and roof and then placing adjustable substructures on the main structure. The houses are made of light composite ...
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