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WebOS-based 'Hurricane' tablet coming from HP as early as this Fall

With the purchase of Palm, HP promised to "double down" on its WebOS.  They seem to mean business, already having killed the Windows 7-based HP Slate and, according to the Examiner, have already started building a WebOS tablet codenamed the 'HP Hurricane'.

Unless Palm already had some pretty significant tablet plans, that timetable seems awfully aggressive.  

Palm CEO, Jon Rubinstein last year told Slashgear:

he did tell us that webOS was designed to be a “mobile device OS” rather than solely a smartphone platform, suited to a broad scale of devices up to tablets and even larger. Describing larger-scale touch computing as “an exciting area,” Rubinstein said that Palm were watching the tablet market and that “we – or licensees – could look at entering that in future.” Since we reckon webOS’ interface – especially its background notifications system – bests those of iPhone OS 4.0 or Android, that’s a direction we particularly hope somebody chooses to follow.

PreCentral, Engadget