HP Delays Android Tablet

By Allen Tsai | Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:15 pm

Hewlett-Packard is pushing back the release of its Android tablet to the end of the year, in an attempt to focus resources on its upcoming WebOS project.

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The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which is also simultaneously developing tablets running Palm's WebOS and Microsoft's Windows 7 software, is reconsidering its multi-operating system strategy, people familiar with the matter said.

HP has instead decided to concentrate efforts on its WebOS project, code-named Hurricane, which its new Palm unit is developing. That tablet is rumored to have a fall release date.

"We're going to increase R&D spending on WebOS," Jim Burns, HP's vice president of Investor Relations, said at a conference call after acquiring Palm. "We're going to take this platform, which today exists for smartphones only, and make it much broader than that."

In January, HP unveiled a 10-inch tablet called Slate, which was powered by Windows 7, but "serious problems" with poor performance and a hefty weight prevented its launch. A few months later, the company acquired Palm for $1.2 billion and shifted its attention to WebOS.

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