One of these tablets is not like the other, one you can buy right now

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Today was an interesting day in the tablet world. We learned that what was left of Palm has now officially been smashed into HP, and that HP is serious about really building on the momentum that Palm had started to build with webOS. HP announced a plethora of new things today (which you can read more about over at Engadget, who I stole/borrowed the wonderful chart above from) but the most interesting today was their new tablet, the HP TouchPad. I have been getting a lot of crap from people for talking a lot about Apple on this site recently. If you're bothered by this, feel free to stop reading now, or write your own articles. Fact of the matter is, they're key to a lot of the technology I'm interested in right now and they execute it better than anyone else.

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HP releases new commercial featuring Palm Pre 2

Due to hit Verizon any day now, and possibly AT&T later, the Palm Pre 2 is starring in it's own little video trailer showing off some of the new features of WebOS 2.0. Sporting a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM, it's the most powerful smartphone Palm/HP has ever produced. Although it's specs are becoming more and more common and are being quickly outranked by many of the new Android phones and almost all of the new Windows Phone 7 handsets. And oh yeah, it has Angry Birds.