{"id":546559,"date":"2010-04-28T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/04\/28\/hp-implying-webos-tablets-on-tap-already\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:12:00","slug":"hp-implying-webos-tablets-on-tap-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546559","title":{"rendered":"HP implying WebOS tablets on tap? (Already?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That didn&rsquo;t take long for brand new speculation to surface. <\/p>\n<p>Brian Humphries, HP&rsquo;s vice president of strategy and corporate development, set some tongues wagging during the conference call about the HP acquisition of Palm. Hold on, back up: If you don&rsquo;t already know the big news, HP has agreed to purchase Palm. That alone is a whopper of headline news. (For more on that, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/04\/28\/breaking-hp-to-buy-palm-for-1-2-billion\/\">here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Then Humphries <em>kinda sorta<\/em> alluded to something heretofore never actually uttered in public: a WebOS tablet. In truth, it still wasn&rsquo;t uttered here, even in this conference call. But here&rsquo;s what has the webs buzzing about the possibility: <\/p>\n<p>Slide 5 from the presentation (below) features the Pre Plus, Pixi Plus and HP&rsquo;s Slate tablet. The next slide spotlights the major strengths of each company. For Palm, it&rsquo;s the WebOS platform and industry experience, whereas HP offers cashflow and &ldquo;scale.&rdquo; That last word is what analysts are zeroing in on. It could be taken to mean that deploying the OS across different hardware platforms, both small and large. Now let&rsquo;s take another look at the previous slide&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/4\/101979-WebOS-tablet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s it. One word, one slide, a load of cash, and now people are wondering whether HP might eventually unveil a WebOS tablet. <\/p>\n<p>For the record, my initial thoughts are that it would truly be awesome. WebOS, despite being an elegant and user-friendly operating system, has taken a lot of flack over its hardware. Now imagine all those cards swiping by on a big glorious screen set in a beautifully built device. <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s way, <em>way<\/em> too early to know if this will be in the works, but I hope HP is licking its lips, thinking about it. What about you? If a &ldquo;Pablet&rdquo; ever sees the light of day, would you go for it? <\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/hp-hints-webos-tablets\" >PreCentral<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/to8Byvs0YnQO9e2A2kx217ptU34\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/to8Byvs0YnQO9e2A2kx217ptU34\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/to8Byvs0YnQO9e2A2kx217ptU34\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/to8Byvs0YnQO9e2A2kx217ptU34\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/M-hDjfjH1Y8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That didn&rsquo;t take long for brand new speculation to surface. Brian Humphries, HP&rsquo;s vice president of strategy and corporate development, set some tongues wagging during the conference call about the HP acquisition of Palm. Hold on, back up: If you don&rsquo;t already know the big news, HP has agreed to purchase Palm. 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