HP announce three pronged Web OS assault

The latest rumblings from the HP camp suggest that new devices supporting their Web OS platform – including a netbook – may be just around the corner.

Following on from the Palm Pre Web OS smartphone – and HP’s purchase of Palm, the company that developed Web OS last decade – HP announced via an introductory video that it would be launching Web OS on a “phone and a slate and a netbook”.

Well we know that a slate device is in the pipeline in the form of the HP Topaz, but as yet no netbooks have been rumoured featuring Web OS.

Evidentally un-phased by the flattening of netbook sales over the past 12 months, it looks as if HP are fully prepared to take the plunge with this one, and unleash Web OS in the netbook format.

Internet chatter is speculating that HP will be forced to completely redevelop the operating system for a larger desktop – given the current trend in netbooks with 10 inch displays, it looks likely that this will be the case.

Further details of HP’s foray back into the netbook market are expected at the Web OS event on February 9th.

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