Tag archive: Slate

HP's debut into the world of tablets wasn't supposed to happen until this summer — that's what they told the world at their WebOS event earlier this month, anyway. But one of HP's upstream component partners now tells DigiTimes that HP will begin receiving shipments of the newly-unveiled HP TouchPad at the end of March, and the device will go on sale as soon as April. By a variety of accounts, this speculative April… Read More

Fan blogs WPCentral and AndroidCentral have acquired internal product maps for Dell’s forthcoming smartphone and tablet lineups.  According to the images, we can expect three new smartphones and a variety of tablets from Dell from now until the first quarter of 2012. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s apparently coming our way. Smartphones Venue Pro update In a little more than a month, Dell will update the Venue Pro. We’re guessing this means… Read More

Microsoft and AT&T have sent out official invitations to a launch event for Windows 7 Phone, and the formal unveiling will take place in New York on October 11, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega. The executives are expected to introduce both Windows PHone 7, as well as a series of devices from manufacturers LG, Samsung, and HTC. Although AT&T is Microsoft's front-line partner for the Windows Phone… Read More

Speaking at Fortune's Brianstorm Tech conference, HP's personal systems group VP Todd Bradley gave an update on HP's much-touted Windows 7 slate computer product—the same one touted as an “iPad killer” and which Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took in his hands back in January at CES and touted as the future of tablet computing. After many delays, HP now says it plans to release a Windows 7 slate device as a… Read More

When Hewlett-Packard bought Palm last month for $1.2 billion, speculation turned not only to how Palm's webOS might revolutionize HP's smartphone business, but what the implications might be for HP's much-touted but never-shipped touch-driven tablet computing devices…especially the HP Slate, which was given center-stage billing in the hands of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the beginning of the year and repeatedly… Read More

Let the games begin! The tablet field that Apple has taken a stranglehold on will finally be seeing some competition in the stores, when the Archos 7 Home Tablet- powered by Google's Android OS comes to a home near you this June. Although the pre-orders for the tablet on Amazon suggest an April release date, the Archos press release issued today confirms that the tablet will release in June and cost under $200, although an exact day in… Read More

It was beginning to seem like the iPad would face little to no competition on its way to being dubbed as the one true tablet computer, the one tablet to rule them all. Microsoft’s Courier is no more, and then the rumors began to fly that HP’s purchase of Palm would signal the end of- or at least a significant delay to the Slate. Not so, says CNet. One of the main arguments in favor of the Slate getting the axe is that the purchase of Palm… Read More

Hot on the heels of Hewlett-Packard announcing a deal to acquire Palm—and even fewer hours after Microsoft admitted its Courier project will never see the light of day—reports have Hewlett-Packard shutting down development of its “Slate,” the Windows 7-based tablet device intended to compete with the likes of the iPad, and which Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off as a central point of his CES keynote back in… Read More

Now that the floodgates to the fledgling tablet market have officially been blown off their hinges by the arrival of the iPad, you can expect to hear a number of new announcements, press leaks, and rumors regarding potential “iPad killers” coming over the next few weeks. First it was HP, who released a video of their Slate, and now Nokia, fresh off a purchase of mobile browser and service developer Novarra, becomes the next company to remind… Read More

Yesterday we saw the release of a video by HP that touted the advantages of the HP Slate over the iPad, but the company has remained tight lipped on the actual specs behind their tablet. But in what appears to be an internal HP document obtained by Engadget, we have our first look at the specs of the HP Slate, warts and all. There appear to be some significant differences between the Slate and the iPad, the most glaring of which appear to be the… Read More

Apple may have taken the early lead in the burgeoning tablet market, but HP is determined not to surrender without a fight. Today this video hit the internet of their new PC tablet, The Slate, and it not surprisingly seems to focus on the things the iPad does not have, most apparently, a camera. Last month, HP released a video focusing on the inclusion of Flash, something noticeably lacking from both the iPad and iPhone (for the moment).… Read More

Sure, Apple may be commanding a lot of mindshare in the tablet computing world with the imminent arrival of the Apple iPad, but tech giant Hewlett Packard wants people to know that it, too, is coming out with a tablet-based device dubbed the HP Slate—and, unlike the iPad, it'll run Windows applications and offer a “a full Web browsing experience”—and by “full” HP means their tablet runs Flash. U “With this… Read More

In about a week, Apple will likely announce its new slate device, and some are predicting we’ll be up to our armpits in these things by year end. Since most of you will probably wait until the end of the year to either ask for or purchase one of these things, you have a lot of time. But some of you will feel the need to buy sooner, and it is always best to think about what you want to do with one of these things before the feeding frenzy kicks… Read More

Venerable newspaper The Washington Post has announced the formation of a new online publishing unit dubbed The Slate Group which will produce online-only magazines, including Slate,TheRoot.com,The Big Money, and possible other spinoffs from Slate. The move may mark another moment of transition for journalism as it struggles to cope with the advent of digital media and declining revenue from its traditional print business. "The Slate… Read More