HP has just put out a new video that shows they’ll be working with Adobe for Flash support on their upcoming Slate device. The move is seen as a one-up move over Apple’s iPad (and Apple’s insistence on skipping Flash support), allowing HP’s portable to show Flash-based websites such as Hulu, along with a rather large percent of the top websites that use Flash animation and Flash-based video streaming. So take that, Apple. Or not. Since, you know, Jobs doesn’t care much for Adobe.
Still no word on when HP’s Slate will come out, although it does look pretty cool from where we’re sitting. The interface isn’t as polished as Apple’s, but it’s a Windows 7-kind of cool. Which is pretty much our way of saying “hey, at least it’s a full-featured porta-PC.”
According to a WSJ report, HP execs will be meeting in the US and Taiwan to tweak prices and features on HP’s keyboard-less tablet called the Slate. Obviously positioned as a PC-version to rival Apple’s iPad, HP is discussing selling a version of the Slate with a spec that matches the iPad for a price below Apple’s $629 asking price (this would be the 16GB iPad that comes with a 3G connection along with Wi-fi).
