In addition to new slate and smart phone devices, an HP training video hints that webOS, the current last-place mobile operating platform, will find its way onto a netbook this year.
The rumor was reinforced in an CNBC interview with HP personal systems chief Tom Bradley. Bradley responded to a question about an HP-webOS tablet saying, “We believe that the tablet is one piece of that ecosystem, one piece of the connected experience that we are going to create.”
webOS master-brain Jon Rubinstein mentioned netbooks as viable hardware for the OS last year, but it is a sign that the company is betting big on the platform.Manufacturers like Asus are already adding mobile operating systems to clamshell designs. The A