More details and photos of the HP Topaz, also known as the HP Slate or Palmpad, have just been leaked by precentral.net. The site tracked down full schematics, specifications and even some insight on how HP envisions the future of webOS as a tablet operating system. Here’s the scoop on HP’s first webOS tablet — the HP Topaz.
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HP has finally released the Slate 500 and – as revealed here back in July – the Windows 7 tablet is aimed at the business market rather than the consumer friendly territory occupied by the iPad.
HP has been talking webOS tablets since it snapped up Palm earlier in the year. Since the HP Palm deal was inked, we’ve seen oodles of rumours about what the first offspring of the union will be called. The prime candidate has been PalmPad and an HP exec appears to have confirmed it…
Since HP gobbled up Palm, there’s been constant talk about when the HP webOS tablet (aka the Palmpad) will make an appearance. After coyly dropping hints for months, HP execs have finally confirmed that it will be arriving in early 2011 in the wake of the Windows 7-powered HP Slate. Read on for the word from HP and what we know so far…
The HP Zeen: that’s the slightly alien named slapped on the latest tablet rumoured to be on the cards from the PC and printer making powerhouse. The word is it’s not packing Windows 7 like the enterprise-bound HP Slate or one of the first webOS tablets but an Android tablet paired with a printer called Zeus. Will this Olympian effort a godly offering or a mortal error?
Windows 7 tablets are top of the Microsoft to do list, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. Talking to financial analysts, he was bullish about the imminent arrival of Windows 7 tablets like the HP Slate and dismissed the idea of using ARM processors and Windows Phone 7 for tablet PCs. While he was forced to utter the dreaded “iPad” word and admit Apple has done rather well, he put the boot into Android…
The HP Slate launch has been on again/off again more times than a bad romcom engagement. But now it seems we’ve got the final answer: the Windows 7-packing HP Slate is on the way but it’ll be an enterprise device for business. If you’ve been angling for a consumer tablet from HP (aka the PalmPad/HP Hurricane), it’s still coming and will be rocking webOS 2.0….
HP has apparently listed its HP Slate online as running on Windows 7 in another twist for the tablet. It started out as the centrepiece of Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote, but then was reportedly dropping Windows 7, possibly in favour of webOS, after which it was reportedly being dropped altogether, until HP turned up in a slide listing tablet hardware at Ballmer’s most recent keynote speech a few weeks ago. Phew.