HP has posted a teaser special report at Youtube on its forthcoming HP Slate that it announced at CES earlier this month. Rather than providing a breakdown of technical specifications, the video is presented as a questions and answers session on the HP Slate's development. The questions are asked by an HP spokesperson with the answers provided by Phil McKinney, HP's chief technical officer. McKinney said that 2010 is the year of the Slate because of a "perfect storm of innovation." For that, we give him an inital score on trite buzzwords and phrases of +2. He continued, "It's around the fact that there's now this convergence of low cost, low power processors, Win 7.0 with an operating system that is touch aware, the ability to create these kinds of platforms with new kinds of touch technology that hit that price point." His buzzword score rose to about +5 there, we reckon. McKinney also said that the idea behind the research and development, by its Labs team in Bristol, was to take e-readers to the next stage. Naming Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader, McKinney said they're "optimised for black and white text and don't offer multi-media rich platforms." He hit around +7 or so in his buzzword bingo score by our count, not bad for the bit more than two sentences we could bear to quote. So what's wrong with this picture? Nary a mention of a certain Apple tablet due for launch this Wednesday in San Francisco, that's what. HP had already tried to raise Lazarus from the grave ...
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