HP's Slate To Be Replaced By WebOS Tablet?

itwbennett writes "Last week the rumor mill was rumbling about the demise of HP's Slate. 'This past weekend brought fresh rumors to the surface,' writes blogger Peter Smith. 'Now the insiders are saying that the Slate will be reborn as the HP Hurricane, and it will run WebOS. That makes perfect sense given HP's recent purchase of Palm and HP's declaration that they were 'doubling down on WebOS.' More surprising is the rumored launch date of Q3 of this year, which seems like a pretty fast turn-around. Particularly so if HP ditches the Atom and goes with an ARM processor, which Electronista suggests it would have to do.'"

Re:The key question remains ...

[WiseWeasel]

I hate to respond to trolls, but I just tried it out, and Redtube works fine on my iPhone. You'll be happy to know that you can still play the skin flute without Flash installed.

Re:More excited for Android tablet.

[gobanjoboy]

They are both built on top of Linux. I agree with you, that Android feels more like a Winmo style interface. I find WebOS to be more elegant and less computer like.

WebOS SDK/PDK supports : HTML5(HTML/css/javascript) | c/c++
Andriod SDK/NDK supports : Java | c/c++


I can at least say that WebOS is super easy to develop for.

Re:Meh

[gobanjoboy]

This can already be done.

http www.webos-internals org/wiki/Debian

webOS, not WebOS

[PeekabooCaribou]

It's webOS, lowercase "w."

Re:WebOS? Intermeresting...

[LWATCDR]

Not really. The 8088 in the PC was clocked at only 4.77 MHZ by that time multiple vendors where shipping Z-80s that where clocked at 6 or even 8 MHZ. The larger address space really didn't come in to play at that time since the PC ships standard with 16k and maxed out at 256k. Also 6502s at two to three Mhz where also available.
I would also say that the it is arguable that the x86 ISA was better then the 6809.
The 68000 was available at that time and frankly would have been fine at the HUGE price point that IBM introduced the PC.
The Amiga and ST where every bit the match in performance for the much more expensive AT.
The PC sold because of IBMs name. I was there and everybody thought IBM==computers.
The PC was a TERRIBLE standard but one we got stuck with.

Re:Dear HP

[Anonymous Coward]

The touchscreens on the Palm handhelds (like my T3) don't support multi-touch, and never will. Also, no WiFi except in the very last generation of devices.

So while it might be an interesting exercise in hacking, it's not of much practical utility.

Re:WebOS? Intermeresting...

[Funk_dat69]

I have SSH running on my Pre. If you get 'Preware' installed on you phone (some guides over at precentral.net), use that to install the console and command line utilities. An SSH client is included in that.

(I can even use a VPN app to tunnel into my work network to check on some machines if need be :)

Re:Dear HP

[Anonymous Coward]

Please release a WebOS rom/image/update/etc for all the Palm TX's and other Palm devices that are already out there but probably not being used on account of stagnant OS software and applications.

I believe many of these devices are capable of running WebOS and you could create a community almost overnight. I'm sure I'm not the only geek looking at my TX wishing I could use it in some meaningful capacity again.

Wouldn't work. The Palm TX had only 32MB of dynamic RAM (it's quoted as 128MB RAM, but that refers to the built-in flash memory). The Palm Pre and Pixi have 256MB of dynamic RAM and even they get the occasional "too many cards" error...