Official announcement of the HP Slate, done by Microsoft

If you followed us yesterday we’ve speculated about HP launching a new touch tablet, based on Microsoft’s Courier dual screen tablet design, thus slapping Apple in the face before their official announcement. It seems that we were half right, of half wrong if you like, as Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer just announced the HP Slate (not the official name) of a ‘classic’ touch tablet running Windows 7. It’s clean design wise and that’s something nice. Size seems enough for basic tasks like browsing, reading and viewing a movie once in a while. It supports multi touch, taking advantage of the full capabilities of Windows 7.

The mysterious HP Microsoft joint venture demystified

HP said that it will tell more information about it later these days, but we know for sure that availability will come sometime to the end of the year. As always we’ll have you posted once new info comes up. [source]

Size seems just right

And the official video (too short, too keen to keep secrets):