HP Hurricane WebOS Tablet Later this Year

Rumors are that HP is working on the Slate tablet running WebOS. This tablet is called HP Hurricane internally. An HP based insider informed Examiner that HP Hurricane tablet will be introduced in the third quarter of this year. When HP bought Palm, we knew that WebOS would be placed on the upcoming HP products. The HP-Palm deal closes on July 31 and then maybe HP will be able to confirm these speculations officially.

Last month, it was speculated that HP is dumping plans for the HP Slate, its iPad Killer tablet. Windows 7 Starter edition for the tablet was alleged to be less responsive and also the Intel Atom platform was power hungry. New HP Hurricane would run WebOS which may turn out to be zippy but it would also be important to note which processor is used instead of the Intel Atom processor.

Obviously, HP would want to make the best of Palm's WebOS. If HP is planning to build a custom interface over the WebOS, it might take a while. We think the third quarter release date sounds too good to be true. So if the WebOS clad Hurricane tablet arrives, it would give some competition to iPad. Let's wait and see if HP would be bringing the Hurricane tablet.

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