HP Slate Confirmed As Real Tablet Display
July 24, 2010 | Display, Hewlett-Packard | Comments OffAnd with that, the mystery is solved. Well, at least we think that the mystery is solved. This story goes far back to CES 2010. In this show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came out on a stage with a Tablet PC from HP, which was simply called “HP slate” at the time. But then, nobody has seen or heard from again. Over the months, IPAD skyrocketed in popularity and nearly every other computer maker has announced a slate or two, HP remained calm.
And HP bought Palm. People immediately began to suspect that the slate HP was delayed in order to obtain WebOS (Palm mobile operating system) on the device, thus becoming the first WebOS Slate to exist. Finally, HP decides to speak about the product, and rumors started flying that she might have with Windows 7, he would be killed, or that it would once again resurface as a product WebOS equipped.
Now the truth has finally been revealed. In an interview with Fortune this week, HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley said that the list we’ve all been wondering about is “more specific to the customer that all deployed” and that HP should start The Microsoft-equipped ship (which means Windows 7, we suspect) products to its corporate customers in the autumn. So there is good news and bad news here. The good news is that life HP Slate, but the bad news is that it can never really be sold to ordinary consumers. It is strange to think that HP would announce the slate at a Consumer Electronics Show, which convert into a framework of business once they have our attention. But who knows, maybe slate with Windows 7 is now the slate was now once WebOS captured by Palm. So now we expect a WebOS shelf for the consumer, right? [via hothardware]
