{"id":12618,"date":"2010-09-29T11:44:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T10:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/hp-dumps-android-tablet\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:09:52","slug":"hp-dumps-android-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hp-dumps-android-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"HP dumps Android tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/browse.deviantart.com\/customization\/icons\/?q=google%20android#\/d2k5cyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/29-09-2010-12-22-24.png\" alt=\"Androidpalmhp\" width=\"160\" align=\"left\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><strong>HP<\/strong>&#8216;s plans for a tablet have taken a new turn: instead of running <strong>Android<\/strong> &#8211; or even opting for<strong> Windows Phone 7<\/strong> &#8211; the company has decided to put its weight behind a <strong>Palm-based operating system<\/strong>. It has also been revealed that any plans for a HP smartphone running Android have been scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>Android&#8217;s not very used to rejection, so why has Hewlett-Packard decided to give the Google operating system the cold shoulder? Well, back in April, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/hpinfo\/newsroom\/press\/2010\/100428xa.html\" title=\"HP press release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HP bought<\/a> struggling smartphone makers <strong>Palm <\/strong>and is obviously counting on <strong>WebOS<\/strong> &#8211; as part of a new tablet<strong> &#8211;<\/strong> to help recoup the expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it is a solid operating system, Palm never managed to get a strong foothold in the mobile market. Technically though, it&#8217;s a strong system, so let&#8217;s hope its reputation as the &#8220;almost-there&#8221; of the mobile world doesn&#8217;t hold the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&amp;usg=AFQjCNHxOILuXkJz-0NgNxQzlNUd8MuisQ&amp;cid=8797598844750&amp;ei=jBKjTIjNHaTKjAfUz5oN&amp;rt=SEARCH&amp;vm=STANDARD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fonearena.com%2Fblog%2F23765%2Fhp-to-launch-webos-tablet-known-as-palmpad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PalmPad<\/strong><\/a> back.<\/p>\n<p>[image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mobiusu.deviantart.com\/\" class=\"u\">Mobiusu<\/a><span class=\"u\">]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP&#8216;s plans for a tablet have taken a new turn: instead of running Android &#8211; or even opting for Windows Phone 7 &#8211; the company has decided to put its weight behind a Palm-based operating system. It has also been revealed that any plans for a HP smartphone running Android have been scrapped. Android&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hp-dumps-android-tablet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HP dumps Android tablet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334709,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/334709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}