We’ve been hearing rumors that Research in Motion is working on a tablet for a while now. But Boy Genius Report has the first details/rumors about how exactly you’re supposed to use the thing. If you were hoping for an oversized BlackBerry Storm which you could use as a standalone device, it sounds like you may be out of luck….

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Hewlett Packard is shelling out $1.2 billion to purchase Palm. While HP used to be a pretty major player in the mobile device space, over the past few years the company hasn’t shown much enthusiasm for the cellphone market, offering just a handful of iPaq-branded Windows Mobile phones and PDAs. But it looks like that could all change soon, with…

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Palm almost anticipated the netbook revolution with the Palm Foleo. I say almost for two reasons. First, because while the Palm Foleo was a small clamshell device with a keyboard, it wasn’t a standalone computer. Instead, it was designed to connect to a Palm mobile phone and act as an external display and full QWERTY keyboard for interacting with your…

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