HP TouchPad running webOS was certified to the FCC

Hewlett Packard Company intends to soon bring to market a tablet that is running its own operating system webOS. Earlier, according to rumors, it was known that the model TouchPad should appear on sale in June of this year. Now it became known that this tablet was approved by the Federal Communications Commission USA, which confirms the assumption about the imminent commercial launch. Market introduction of tablet devices with the new operating system - not the most frequent. Except for BlackBerry PlayBook and the ancestor of the modern wave of these devices iPad all represented in the current year models are running Android. It is on the Android 3.0 prefer to bet these manufacturers ka Samsung, LG and HTC.

At the same time, HP chose to go their own way and the market will also TouchPad OS 3.0, but it will be called webOS and have with Android Honeycomb little in common. Tablet itself is equipped with 9.7-inch screen with 1024 x 768 pixels, Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.2 GHz. Unlike most modern devices, analog TouchPad has only a frontal web camera with a resolution of 1.3 MP. Apparently the developers felt the tablet is not too necessary to place the camera, which is not so easy to use (size of the device are very different from phone or camera), or faced with any hardware or software problems of the plan. It is reported that HP plans to launch simultaneously with the tablet stores music and video, allows downloading of media files online.

HP TouchPad cost will depend on the amount of internal memory, which is 16 or 32 GB. Costs are respectively $ 499 and $ 599.