HP Slate: Killed?

Last month iPad was finally released, it brings people advantages and disadvantages. iPad was one of Apple's gadgets that's made to either surf the web, E-Book Reader or a handheld game console like iPod Touch. Before the launch, rumor has it, that it might have a camera for video conference. Weirdly, it's not included like its smaller variant iPod Touch and iPhone. Critics also said it just looks like a flattened and widened iPhone and strips the camera.

  HP Slate from Engadget, resized by Wikipedia

Due to the tablets started to be introduced, HP started to create its own tablet, named the HP Slate. The ads was interesting, as it does Flash (which was rare for handheld devices at the time) and it could also do some functions that iPad could do. The most important thing was, it's Windows variant, a newly brewed Windows 7 by Microsoft that's already planned before to compensate the use of touchscreens with larger touchable buttons. HP Slate brings hope to Windows lovers and users of a good designed tablet.

Microsoft Courier, from Gizmodo

But, as Microsoft has just killed its tablet project called Courier (I didn't know anything about it, it's only a two sided touchscreen, like two iPads stick together side-to-side), rumor has it, that HP Slate was also going to be killed. It may be caused by the low interest of users using tablets as they're heavy to be carried on every time but also too portable to be sitting at home. The market of tablet was actually started 10 years ago, its disadvantages kills 'em time by time as popularity decreases. So, will the tablets again ended with disappointing result? Just wait...

UPDATE: Source Link: Engadget: HP Slate killed? Rumor mill says 'yes'

(>_<) No Phone Till Today !?!?!?!?!?!!!!!

P.S.: My God.... My phone was nowhere to found in Jakarta, all phone shops said 'kosong', means empty which actually means zero stock. There's one store which has it, but it's red colored, mine is silver. Causes, BlackBerry is one of the causes which Nokia started to withdrew from Indonesia's middle-class market. But, at least, it has to stock its phone as listed on the website. Even the Nokia center also said that there's no stock for that phone, with unknown reasons from the 'warehouse'. If it's unavailable, fine, I'll choose another phone. But please, don't hang it around in the website if it's unavailable!