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HP completes acquisition of Palm, confirms WebOS tablet

article published on 2 July, 2010

In late April, HP announced it was purchasing the struggling smartphone maker Palm for $1.2 billion, after at least four other companies gave serious bids. Palm had put itself up for sale in March after it became clear that the company's phones were not selling and it only had enough cash to last the next 12 months. Today, HP has completed that acquisition, while at the same time ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		2. July 2010 @ 21:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I guess I won't be buying the HP tablet...but I already kinda figured that from the months of this crap that have been going on already.

I wonder how long it will be before we get some kind of "JailBreak" allowing us to install a real OS, or at least Android...maybe by then I can get one cheap on eBay.
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Josipher
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_ 		4. July 2010 @ 08:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by KillerBug:
 I guess I won't be buying the HP tablet...but I already kinda figured that from the months of this crap that have been going on already.

I wonder how long it will be before we get some kind of "JailBreak" allowing us to install a real OS, or at least Android...maybe by then I can get one cheap on eBay.
I'd rather a real windows 7 touch tablet and a spare battery than a useless Android/PalmOS/Ubuntu/other dummed down OS
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shaffaaf
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_ 		4. July 2010 @ 13:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
killerbug, you realise webos doesnt need a jailbreak? you just put it into dev mode and go. but itd be nice to have webos/android/win7 triple boot.
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