HP Gets Ready to Show its Palm Side

One day after Dell's big product rollout - headlined by a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet - Hewlett Packard is expected to announce its own line of Palm tablets on Wednesday.

This will be the first real fruit of HP's $1.2 billion purchase of Palm last April. The general buzz has it that HP will unveil a couple of tablets and perhaps a netbook or two as well as some printers that work with the highly-regarded WebOS that came along with the acquisition. As CNET's Tom Krazit noted, the the press conference, which will take place in San Francisco, will offer one of the first looks at what HP has accomplished since bringing in Jon Rubenstein as well the other former Palm engineers it picked up.

Last month, purportedly leaked documents surfaced about a so-called Topaz tablet HP was reportedly working on. Among other features, the rumored tablet was said to allow for wireless charging; photo, music, and contact sharing; Bluetooth audio streaming, video streaming; and wireless printing.