For years now users have been wondering when Google will bring Android to the PC arena. Well now that time has arrived with the HP Slate Pro PC. The HP Slate Pro PC will come with Kingsoft Office, Skype, Evernote, HP’s Classroom Manager, 50GB of storage from Box for life, and Citrix Receiver for remote controlling other Window PCs.
So what type of processor is powering this beast? NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 4 processor, an HD webcam, WiFi N, and Bluetooth 4.0. The best feature is the price which is a super low $399 at launch. The future looks very bright for Android developers as more and more devices are being made for the OS.

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So PPCGeeks, today we hear that Sprint is not going to get the Pre3 by HP. As many of you know they offer the Palm Pixi, which I would like to add is for free (but what shouldn’t be for a legacy device? This does seem to be a death blow for the Pre series on the 3rd largest carrier in the US. T-Mobile does not offer WebOS at all.

The reason that Sprint is not getting the new WebOS device is that they have been burned in very high hardware failure rates and users saying the OS is laggy as well as very high cost for webOS handsets…Which raises a question – what is the initial cost of the device, and why so high?

So I ask this PPCGeeks, does Sprint need WebOS? Would you buy it? What advantages would Sprint have to get the WebOS device(s)? Let’s Discuss I will be surfing the comments and commenting back as time goes on…

Source: WMPU

So we are here to spotlight the lower famed OS of the day…webOS. It seems to me that HP is doing a good job in trying to revise the OS for daily use. I mean they have already announced several new devices using webOS, and have taken it to the next level of installing it in their printers, and other devices. Rumor has it that by 2012 each HP computer you buy will dual boot webOS and Windows OS… With all that is great but now we hear a new thing that struck my fancy.

HP CEO Leo Apotheker said that he would entertain the thought of licensing webOS to other manufactures. Stating “It’s not correct to believe that it should only be on HP devices.” They used HTC as an example and Apotheker said that that’s a possibility that they’d “entertain”. Speaking at the Qualcomm Uplinq conference webOS head Jon Rubenstein also said that HP might be interested in licensing webOS to some select companies.

On top of all of that – it appears HP sees their webOS being used in appliance-makers to enterprise companies and even small-businesses. They (HP) even demoed the Touchpad controlling home appliances like lights, and blinds, etc. Question is though PPCG is this something that you would think is needed by HP/Palm webOS or should they stick to the basics, printers, phones, and mobile devices like tablets, netbooks? I personally bet that HP could make a great ecosystem, but I suspect fragmentation would happen if they spread out to far too quickly. Your thoughts let them be heard below!

source: SlashGear

Not only does Sprint have a special announcement coming in February, now HP has something up their sleeve as well. February 9, 2011 at their WebOS event in San Francisco many of us suspect they are going to announce several products, including tablets. Maybe they will officially announce the Topaz or the Opal, two tablets Engadget previously mentioned here.

What’s exciting about the announcement? The email HP sent to attendees asks them to ‘Think Big. Think Small. Think Beyond.’ What do you think about that? It tells me they have a big secret in store! What do you think it could be? What all products do you think HP may have coming up? What sort of announcement do you want to hear? Let us know your thoughts.

Once the announcement is given believe we will be back telling you all about it! For now, discuss in the comment box below.

Source: Engadget

The boards of directors at HP and Palm have come to an agreement on a buyout of Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) by HP (Nasdaq: HPQ). The negotiated price for the buyout is estimated at a whopping $1.2 billion at $5.70 per share of Palm’s common stock in cash.

This comes when HP is looking to enter the smartphone and tablet reader market in full force, with their high market share in the personal and portable computer market, this will extend their line of mobile products. HP is the type of company that Palm needs to back them up, and get their OS distributed in more markets around the world and on more devices. HP also has a well known marketing team, which will indeed benefit Palm greatly.

Source: HP

HP’s latest WM 6.5 smartphone will be hitting At&t in the coming weeks, known as the iPAQ Glisten.  It will have a 2.5″ AMOLED Touchscreen, albeit a resistive one, a 3.1MP camera, 256MB RAM, microSD slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack, WiFi, and Bluetooth.  It’ll run ya $229.99 after mail-in rebates and a 2 year agreement.

Source: The::Unwired