HP were due to launch their first tablet which would run Windows 7, and the tablet was going to be called the HP Slate, that was until HP decided to buy Palm and then announce that the HP Slate would be shelved.

HP then told us that they would be investing heavily in Palm’s webOS operating system that runs on the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi smartphones, and that they would also start producing tablets based on webOS.

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