The merger of smartphone maker Palm could have an impact upon HP’s skeleton for the “Slate” inscription.

The Slate could be re-branded “Hurricane” as well as expelled with the brand-new operating system based upon Palm’s WebOS, according to a inform in The Examiner. The Hurricane could be released in a third entertain of a year.

For inscription enthusiasts who wish a device that’s not combined by Apple, the HP Slate — the inscription with iPad-like styling — seems like the earnest pick. But a Slate’s growth has been delayed as well as rocky. Apple has already sole more than 1 million iPads whilst HP has been perplexing to finish its product.

HP introduced a Slate to tool enthusiasts by the video in March. The association didn’t make known technical specifications for a device, though it expelled dual short video clips which indicated a device would run Windows 7.

The Slate would also have a built-in camera, video-recording capacity, USB pier, an SD card reader as well as await for Adobe Flash — facilities pointedly directed during a iPad, that lacks all 5. A leaked association document referred to a Slate would price $550 or $600 for a 32-GB as well as 64-GB models, respectively.

But late last month, HP pronounced it was appropriation smartphone maker Palm. Jack Gold, an researcher with J. Gold associates says Palm’s brand-new handling complement, WebOS, created for the Palm Pre as well as Pixi phones could be the great fit for a HP inscription. Later, TechCrunch reported which HP could kill the Windows 7 inscription as well as instead find the approach to launch a product which would make use of WebOS.

The latest idea which HP competence re-brand a Slate as Hurricane seems to bear out a rumors of a WebOS-based inscription.

A HP orator declined to criticism, saying a association does not speak about “rumors and speculation.” The HP and Palm merger closes in July, as well as compartment then, a dual companies have been approaching to continue to action exclusively, according to government manners.

The Examiner doesn’t have the lane jot down when it comes to tool rumors but, if you take into comment the hum from dissimilar sources, it is expected which HP is re-evaluating the skeleton for a Slate. The subject is, how prolonged can a association means to wait for with Apple already charging ahead with the iPad?