HP and Palm

HP has recently decided to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion(!). I look forward to this acquisition with great anticipation of the combination of corporate synergies. Palm has quite the portfolio in terms of patents and could be a large threat to the dominant players in the handheld space with webOS. Now, with HP's backing, they are set to have the proper funding for webOS. HP also has the hardware to compliment the software Palm's bringing to the table. I'm most excited about the Slate, which was rumored and then subsequently killed off in it's current Windows 7 incarnation. Hopefully that is because they are retooling it to run on webOS. A tablet running a lighter OS than Win7, with or without a 3g modem, would be great...and yes I bashed the iPad but it wasn't for the tablet form factor but rather the lack of features that SHOULD be included. The Slate could be a big win for HP if they implement webOS correctly. I would love to see a couple USB ports, a camera(or two), memory card slots.