Thursday, December 15, 2011

HP will return to produce tablets with webOS in 2013

The tortuous history of webOS under the control of HP could win a fresh chapter within a year.


Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, said in an interview that does not rule out the possibility that your company offers a new tablet running the platform to the market in "early 2013". The revelation came during an interview on the executive to the site "TechCrunch."

The strategy would be as inspired by the success that the deceased experienced touchpad tablet after seeing its price fall from a pricey $ 499 to U.S. $ 99 comrades - part of an action to clear inventory promoted after the end of the line of the gadget was announced. The new model had modest hardware, price friendly and generate few costs for HP, since the development of its platform would be left to their community (now open) of developers. Formula not unlike the Kindle Fire, another recent success of the market.

Within HP, the new device will be joined with webOS tablet equipped with Windows 8, set to hit stores in the second half of 2012.

In a statement sent to the "TechCrunch", HP said that Whitman's statement about a new tablet with webOS has always been in the works, who left, right, only plans to build phones with the platform. All right then.