HP Slate 500
Monday, July 26, 2010 12:23
One of Hewlett-Packard’s web page has displayed a tablet computer products, named HP Slate 500. These gadget is might the first tablet HP products will be released to the market in cooperation with Microsoft.
On the page mentioned, HP Slate 500 is using 8.9-inch touch screen and use the operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Premium. This device also has two cameras, one for recording images and one for web conferencing. HP Slate 500 also equipped with a stylus. This product has been listed on HP’s official website as the product qualified as Energy Star by using the 1.6 GHz processor.
That page has now disappeared. However, HP has ensured that the tablets or Slate devices based on Windows 7 still to be released for enterprise-class. It is said Todd Bradley, HP Executive Vice President, in a conference in Colorado, U.S., last week.
For the consumers class, HP will use the WebOS by Palm which has acquired around 1.2 billion U.S. dollars. According to the U.S. patent office documents, HP has registered the brand PalmPad for handheld computers, cell phones, PDAs, electronic notepads, digital electronics and mobile devices.
Currently no information on whether HP will use the brand name for the device PalmPad tablet or smartphone. HP will ensure that for the HP Slate 500 tablet using the Microsoft platform in the enterprise-class and WebOS for consumer class. However, for smartphones, HP will only use the WebOS and will not use the Windows Phone 7.
