As you may already know HP has recently bought Palm for a tidy sum of 1.2 BILLION DOLLARS! Ah Palm it really was a shame you couldn’t sell the Pre. It had such good hype and really was a great phone. Its staggered release in Europe and their marketing campaign lead to the ruin of them and as such Palm even severed it’s ties with their digital agency Modernista who were responsible for (take a deep breath) this.
So now that the giant that is HP owns Palm can we hopefully see that beautiful operating system WebOS on the Slate? WebOS by the way is Palm’s awesome multi-tasking, gesture loving operating system that currently ships on all their new shinny devices including of-course the Palm Pre. With HP’s rival Dell delivering an impressive range of Android phones soon, HP have decided to join the game to secure their share in the mobile market. Having WebOS on their side certaintly gives them the home advantage.
Since the iPad was unleashed on the market 1 million units have been sold in the US and pre-orders in the UK are already off to a great start for release date of May 28th (update – pushed back to June 7th now). HP thought they had the upper hand with the Slate providing a fully blown OS (Win 7) but as usual they forgot their target audience. You can’t sell to the average geek anymore, you need to go mainstream! Target the bubble gum chewers, the Tamagotchi crowd, right?!
