Rumors on the market say that HP is preparing a new silver touchscreen smartphone. Dubbed HP Oak the device is aimed to corporate business, but not only. Running Windows Mobile 6.1, this latest iPAQ smartphone has a side-slider design and also packs 7.2Mbps, HSDPA-based 3G, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi.

The guys at the Wall Street Journal are sure that in a few months HP Oak will debut in Europe and will be sold by a carrier in retail stores. Some other rumors say that Vodafone will take lead and will probably sell it in retails stores.

People close to HP said that the Oak has a large screen and feels solid, but has a “bad” navigation key that doesn’t feel very comfortable. They still have time to change it a bit.

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Good news for you travelers! Hewlett-Packard has presented the first laptop computer which has passed the 24-hour battery life barrier. The model tested by HP operated continuously for 24 hours on a single battery charge.

The HP EliteBook 6930p has achieved an impressive performance by incorporating high-end technology. The test laptop uses SSD (solid state drive) memory, a mercury-free LED display and an ultra-capacity battery. The components mentioned here can increase it overall battery life up to several hours. The LED display alone gives up to for hours of juice, while the SDD boost the battery life with a 7 percent rate.

To create this high-tech notebook, HP uses the new Intel X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA SSDs. The solid state drives offer faster system responsiveness, as well as a low energy consumption while operating.

There is a laptop version that has a starting price of $1,199.00, but it doesn’t include the high-performance features listed above.

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The new HP dv3000 has been announced for Asia. It’s a redesigned version of the dv2000 they’ve released 2 years ago and since it’s cool to have a 13.3-inch display this is what you get. It has pretty interesting specs with a 2.5GHz T9300 Penryn Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, GeForce Go 8400M graphics that outputs HDMI or a 160GB hard drive. Of course there are others like a VGA webcam, a dual layer burner and a combo USB / eSATA port.

The price is $1,399, the date is May and the continent is Asia. Too bad for the rest of us.

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This is HP Compaq 2133, the newest UMPC on the market that features a 8.9-inch WXGA display that is scratch resistant and does 1,366 x 766, has Wireless LAN and a 95% full QWERTY keyboard. Other goodies include an optional SSD and an ExpressCard/54 slot. All these are packed in a fancy aluminum case and only weighs 2.5 pounds.

I’m keen on knowing that CPU or memory the new HP 2133 is going to use but until then we’ll have to settle with those above.

For a good price I could give it a go and buy one instead of an ASUS Eee PC, but there’s no official wording so far.

Update 1: price is supposed to be $630 and date could be April.

via Engadget