At the recently finished CES 2011, Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President, Hewlett-Packard’s Personal Systems Group, said that his company would unveil WebOS tablet on February 9, 2011.
In an interview with CNBC, at CES 2011, when asked how HP tablet would differentiate itself from iPad, he said “you and I will talk about that on the 9th.” During the interview, he further said that it was the WebOS platform that interested HP to acquire Plam back in 2010 and WebOS would play a major role in HP’s plan to enter into the mobile phone arena.
On January 4, 2011, HP sent out invitations of a WebOS event in San Francisco. The invitation, which says, “Think Big, Think small, Think Beyond” led many to believe that HP will unveil its WebOS tablet PC at the event. Aside from tablet PCs, HP will unveil other products.
In CES 2009, Palm Inc. introduced Palm Pre, the first webOS based smartphone, which was launched in the mid-2009. Though the phone was widely appreciated by tech industry critics, it did not see much success. Later, HP acquired the company for $1.2 billion in April 2010.
Specs of HP tablet leaked on Internet earlier. On July 9, 2010, HP filed for a trademark for the term “PalmPad” which many thought would be the name of HP’s future tablet product. The device has been said to be supporting WiMAX. If that is true, then it might run on Sprint’s WiMAX-based 4G network. Thinner than iPad, the PalmPad will weigh 1.25lbs and will have rounded edges.
Other features include a mini-HDMI port, USB 3.0 port, a "multi-switch" like the Palm Pre, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing and a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera and two LED flashes.
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