just dreaming... slate with wp7?

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why they don't do it? ipad as iphone os... many slate are coming with android... why not a wp7 slate? i think it should be awesome, don't you?

I'm sure it will happen. By MS? I wouldn't bet on it, but there's nothing stopping MS's official partners from making a device. C-Motech made a Windows Mobile 6.5 tablet last year. If it does happen it will probably be anywhere between 5-8 inches since the highest resolution possible is only 800x480

Originally Posted by Blue Ice K4

why they don't do it? ipad as iphone os... many slate are coming with android... why not a wp7 slate? i think it should be awesome, don't you?

Maybe HP Slate will comes with WebOS from Palm, I guess you already know that HP bought PALM

4 main OS's

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Out of the 4 main OS's of choice Android,iPhone,WebOS & WP7 I personally think WebOS & WP7 would be the best tablet experience to have on a device with w 7"+ screen size.

I really don't understand what everyone's hang up is with having a phone OS on a tablet.

It's bd enough that we have to endure the closed phone OS ecosystem on phones, why would you want to move that to the tablet realm?

What happened to all the people maligning the iPad because it ran a phone OS?

Originally Posted by Spike15

I really don't understand what everyone's hang up is with having a phone OS on a tablet.

It's bd enough that we have to endure the closed phone OS ecosystem on phones, why would you want to move that to the tablet realm?

What happened to all the people maligning the iPad because it ran a phone OS?

more people are buying into the "what it does, it does really well" talking point. I don't know how many times I've read that, and heard it by ipad owners. Real tablets need another year or 2 to get the right hardware to use a real OS well at acceptable battery life, weight, and performance.

The HP Touchsmart is a step in the right direction. We're at like 1st & Goal for a real tablet envisioned like 10 years ago.

Originally Posted by gom99

more people are buying into the "what it does, it does really well" talking point.

Which is kind of ridiculous because the point of the evolution of the computer is that it enables you to do more and more with one device.

This single-minded design ethos just restricts the customer further and further, and the fragmentation of operating systems is going to ensure that development is spread between all of them, rather than focussed on one of them (alternatively you're just going to see one rise to dominance and all the others will fade away).

Having a desktop OS on a tablet allows you to leverage the design and development work that's already gone into that operating system.

I see a lot of people/sites talking about how HP -- in their supposed killing of the Windows 7 Slate -- wants to own both the hardware and the software. I think these companies really need to take a more in-depth look at that business model -- the only company it's worked for is Apple, and it's arguable whether or not that's because Apple actually makes it work, or because Apple has their reality distortion field at full power.

Besides, if you've ever used an HP OEM PC that hasn't been formatted, you know just what a terrible idea it is having HP responsible for any kind of software development...

Originally Posted by Spike15

Besides, if you've ever used an HP OEM PC that hasn't been formatted, you know just what a terrible idea it is having HP responsible for any kind of software development...

That's actually true about every OEM out there.

Originally Posted by vangrieg

That's actually true about every OEM out there.

I know, I was just citing HP as a specific example because they're rumoured to be killing off the Windows 7 Slate in favour of using an in house OS (WebOS).

The fact that companies are looking to own the OS and the hardware just sooms like a quality-sacrificing money-grab to me.

HP is a hardware company, and they make really good hardware. Microsoft is a software company, and they make really good software. There's a reason that they keep out of each others' markets, and that's because they would compromise the quality of the finished product. Great HP hardware running crappy HP software wouldn't amount to anything...

Originally Posted by Spike15

The fact that companies are looking to own the OS and the hardware just sooms like a quality-sacrificing money-grab to me.

They have tons of ambitions usually, and within big corporations like HP it's impossible to say that something they make sucks. So at the end of the day even if they may know they're bad at software they'll never acknowledge it, which sooner or later leads to bad decisions. They have reality distortion fields of their own.

Anyway, HP isn't a company that knows how to focus on anything. So I would expect to see different tablets from them, their acquisition of Palm doesn't mean much in this respect.