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00:02:33 – Panasonic’s new Lumix lineup: LX5, FZ40, FZ100, FX700, and TS10 all official
00:06:52 – Canon developing smaller DSLRs to compete with mirrorless cameras?
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00:30:58 – HP Slate no longer a consumer product, will arrive for enterprise this fall
00:31:24 – HP files for ‘PalmPad’ trademark — a webOS tablet, perhaps?
00:31:35 – HP Slate 500 with Windows 7 surfaces on HP’s site
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Engadget Podcast 206 – 07.24.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No big surprise here, but HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley just flat-out confirmed to CNBC that HP will not be making any Windows Phone 7 devices, preferring instead to focus on the newly-acquired webOS for its line of smartphones. Here’s the entire exchange:

Q: Can you make webOS successful with developers when you’re selling Windows Phone 7, maybe Android or Linux at the same time?

A: We continue to be Microsoft’s biggest customer, and we continue to believe we will drive innovation with Microsoft. At the same time, I think it’s clear to say, that we’re very focused on the customer, and giving the customer the experience that’s important to them. We won’t do — will not do a Linux / Android phone. We won’t do a Microsoft phone.

Q: So no Windows Phone 7?

A: We will continue to more broadly deliver the webOS-based phones that are in the market today, and Jon and his team have driven a strong roadmap for the future.

Q: So does that mean you’re going webOS only for phones?

A: For smartphones it does. Our intent is to focus those resources and really make webOS the best OS it can be.

That’s a big ouch for Microsoft — it has to sting when your biggest customer turns its back on your fledgling mobile efforts — but we can’t exactly see HP spending a billion dollars on Palm only to turn around and support multiple platforms. There is a small silver lining for Microsoft, though — Bradley also reiterated that HP’s tablet plans aren’t so locked in, and once again hinted that the Windows 7-based HP Slate has become an enterprise product, which is at least better than being killed off entirely. Lose some, lose some slightly less, we suppose. Full video after the break — the good bit starts around 5:20.

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HP not making Windows Phone 7 devices, focusing on webOS instead originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve sensed that something’s been up with the HP Slate for a while now, and it looks like we’ve finally gotten the first solid confirmation that the Windows 7 tablet as unveiled by Steve Ballmer at CES in January won’t hit the consumer market as planned — speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley just said that the Slate will be “more customer-specific than broadly deployed,” and that it would launch the Microsoft-based tablet “for the enterprise” in the fall. That fits right in with HP telling us the other day that it was in “customer evaluations” as it prepared for the “next steps,” and based on followup comments from Bradley and Palm head Jon Rubinstein, it certainly sounded like the company will focus Windows tablets at the enterprise and develop a variety of webOS devices for the consumer market. Of course, there’s no official announcement yet, so we’ll see what happens — the only thing that we can confidently say is that the HP Slate has definitely succeeded the iPad as the tech industry’s favorite vaporware tablet.

HP Slate no longer a consumer product, will arrive for enterprise this fall originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We were quite surprised (to say the least!) to see the original Windows 7 HP Slate 500 appear yesterday on the company’s site, and HP officially confirmed this morning that the product is still very much in the works. The outfit’s not sharing much, but a spokesperson from its Personal Systems group did tell us that they’re “in customer evaluations now and will make a determination soon on the next steps.” It all seems very vague and mysterious at this point, but the evidence is surely mounting that we’ll be seeing HP join Microsoft’s “hardcore” tablet push.

HP confirms that Slate is still kicking, ‘next steps’ being determined originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HP Slate 500 with Windows 7 surfaces on HP’s site originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Is this the answer to the question we posed back in mid-June? Maybe. While we’re still unsure if Hewlett-Packard has a webOS-based tablet in its pipeline, those on-again / off-again Windows 7 rumors may finally be nearing an end. On the homepage of this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference — which kicks off in earnest today in Washington, D.C. — there’s a pane of Windows 7 slates that are on deck for this year. Er, a pane with vendors promising Win7 slates this year. Sure enough, HP’s logo is front and center, right alongside the likes of Sony, Dell, ASUS, Panasonic, Onkyo, Toshiba, MSI, Samsung, Lenovo and Fujitsu. We’ll be keeping an ear to the ground for more, but for now, feel free to let your imaginations run wild. It’s Monday, after all.

Update: During the event’s opening keynote, which was headed by none other than Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the bigwig confirmed some of what’s pictured above: Windows 7 slates will be arriving this year. Interestingly, he never mentioned HP by name (despite teasing us gently at CES with an apparent mystery device), but he did note that devices would be available at various price points and in a variety of form factors — “with keyboards, touch only, dockable, able to handle digital ink, etc.” We already knew as much from being overwhelmed by prototypes at Computex, but it’s good to get the word straight from Ballmer himself. Now, to see if anyone’s actually interested in buying a desktop OS on a mobile form factor…

Update 2: Seems Ballmer’s drinking his own Kool-Aid in a serious way, and not just on the tablet front. He noted that Microsoft will be giving consumers “a set of Windows-based devices that people will be proud to carry at home and will fit the kinds of scenarios enterprise IT’s trying to make happen with the phone form factor,” and that Microsoft would be “working vigorously” to “drive enterprise IT and consumers.” Furthermore, Steve affirmed that the tablet sector is “terribly important” for his company, and that it’s “hardcore about this.” He didn’t shy away from calling the range of Windows 7-based tablets coming out “over the next several months” ones that would be “quite impressive,” but honestly — what else would you expect him to say?

Windows 7-based HP Slate referenced at WPC 2010, Ballmer says ‘hardcore’ tablet push coming originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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At this point, we don’t even know if HP’s Slate is still hitting the market — but one thing we do know is that there’s no evidence to suggest that the company will be releasing it with webOS instead of Windows 7. In fact, the two platforms are so wildly different and targeted for such disjoint devices — never mind the fact that HP and Palm aren’t yet united in the legal sense of the word — that there’s virtually no chance that the existing Slate hardware could be effectively used in time for a near-term webOS tablet launch (at least, not a tablet that anyone would want to buy). There’s word on Gizmodo today that the Slate will be offered as a webOS device, but that appears to be a misinterpretation of a DigiTimes report from HP Taiwan that the company intends to use Palm’s operating system to underpin both “smartphones and tablets,” while avoiding porting it to netbooks since they’re “more similar in functions with traditional computers.” Given the Slate’s lukewarm reception, we can totally understand HP canning it in its current incarnation — but you can’t just drop a flashy mobile platform onto it and call it good. Interestingly, the DigiTimes report goes on to say (on an unrelated note) that the Slate will come to market before October, but it’s unclear whether they’re taking into account the most recent round of rumors that it’s been deep-sixed; guess we’ll know soon enough.

HP Slate isn’t rumored to be switching from Windows 7 to webOS originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 12:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/webOS_based_HP_Hurricane_tablet_rumored_for_Q3_Engadget’; Shortly after announcing a blockbuster deal to acquire Palm, HP confessed that it would be “doubling down on webOS,” with near-term plans to “scale it across multiple connected devices.” We took the liberty at that point to assume this meant that a larger webOS-based device was at least sitting around in the rear of someone’s mind, and now it sounds as if Palm loyalists may actually have something tangible to look forward to. According to an unsubstantiated report over at the Examiner, an “insider at HP” has informed the site that “a webOS tablet under the code name HP Hurricane could be released the third quarter of this year.” This all lines up well with what we’ve heard over the past few weeks: HP pledged to take webOS to places it has never been, strong whispers emerged that the HP Slate was being shelved, and now, people close to the HP camp have given a name to a purported webOS tablet slated for Q3. There’s obviously no telling if this is simply hot air being blown, but we wouldn’t be shocked to see HP nail down a webOS slate in time for the sure-to-be-rockin’ 2010 holiday buying season. Or maybe we’re just crossing our fingers, humming aloud and praying to our lucky stars that this all pans out.

[Thanks, Mike and Trever]

webOS-based HP Hurricane tablet rumored for Q3 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 May 2010 19:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last night TechCrunch reported that, according to an unnamed “source briefed on the matter,” HP had stopped development of the Slate in its tracks, killing off the project entirely. Why? Well, according to the source, HP isn’t thrilled with Windows 7’s performance on the tablet. The Slate — which was officially unveiled in January by Steve Ballmer himself — had a rumored price of $549, and was supposedly launching in June. So, what should we make of all this? Well, there’s probably some major chaos over at HP with the news of the Palm acquisition, so we wouldn’t be surprised to hear some shaky — or even incorrect — information coming out of the company right now. On the other hand, HP killing off the project doesn’t sound completely out of the realm of possibility to us. We’ve reached out to HP for comment, but they’ve yet to get back to us. We’ll let you know when we hear something more concrete.

Update: Here’s the response we just go from HP — “We don’t comment on rumors or speculation.”

HP Slate killed? Rumor mill says ‘yes’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last night TechCrunch reported that, according to an unnamed “source briefed on the matter,” HP had stopped development of the Slate in its tracks, killing off the project entirely. Why? Well, according to the source, HP isn’t thrilled with Windows 7’s performance on the tablet. The Slate — which was officially unveiled in January by Steve Ballmer himself — had a rumored price of $549, and was supposedly launching in June. So, what should we make of all this? Well, there’s probably some major chaos over at HP with the news of the Palm acquisition, so we wouldn’t be surprised to hear some shaky — or even incorrect — information coming out of the company right now. On the other hand, HP killing off the project doesn’t sound completely out of the realm of possibility to us. We’ve reached out to HP for comment, but they’ve yet to get back to us. We’ll let you know when we hear something more concrete.

Update: Here’s the response we just go from HP — “We don’t comment on rumors or speculation.”

HP Slate killed? Rumor mill says ‘yes’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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