HP Announces Slate 500 for Corporate Customers

HP’s made it clear that their Windows 7 tablet, the HP Slate 500, is for corporate customers. This makes perfect sense to me. As a long-time Tablet PC user, I’ve been a fan of the convertible tablet for almost a decade. That means I’m a fan of the kind that’s a “normal” notebook computer with a screen that swivels into tablet form. It provides the best of both worlds—an active digitizer with pen for...

Windows 7 Slate Video Out in the Wild

Via webOSround.com we have a video from someone who’s gotten their hot little hands all over HP’s upcoming Windows 7 Slate: It’s just a prototype, and we don’t really know how close it is to release. But, it certainly has some things the iPad doesn’t have including the cameras and expandability we saw earlier in the year. As a user of a Tablet PC running Windows 7, I have to admit that I’m not at all...

Should the HP/Palm webOS Slate Use a Pen?

A brief story in The Examiner speculates that the upcoming HP/Palm webOS slate could include a digital pen (note: not a stylus) for handwriting and drawing. Some folks wonder whether if this would be a good idea, being concerned that including a pen would change the nature of the device. I would argue that, yes, it would, but in a good way: a pen, if properly executed, would dramatically improve content creation on...

HP DreamScreen – Foreshadowing webOS

Looks like HP’s had visions of webOS-like products for awhile now. Check out this video of the HP DreamScreen, and don’t tell me this doesn’t remind you of...