In an interview, Hewlett-Packard, one of the world’s largest makers of personal computers, said that they would be unleashing their first PCs in slate form-factor with webOS operating system in early February, 2011. The company would also unveil its other pioneering projects and devices on the same date.
Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP’s personal systems group, said, “We are totally focused on the tablet market, totally focused on enabling that with webOS, which we bought over the summer from Palm. We believe that the tablet is one piece of that eco-system, one piece of the [always] connected experience that we are going to create. So, we have announced February 9th, [when] we have a broad public show, a public set of announcements, broadly about the future of webOS and the breath of products that it will affect and enable.”
Mr. Bradley also unveiled, “WebOS was the strategic reason we acquired Palm over the summer. The webOS is the first truly Web-based operating system that is differentiated from anything that is on the market today. It is very feature-rich with products like Synergy that allow you to access multiple accounts simultaneously: your Google account, your Facebook account, your Twitter account. [Web OS] is the only true multi-tasking [mobile] operating system: we can have twenty different applications working simultaneously. We think about how that enables everything from smartphone to tablets to PCs to other large-screen devices.”
Currently, it is believed that HP’s Palm division has been continuously functioning on webOS 2.0, which would boast new functionality, better interface and improved types of devices being planned by HP.
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