Following up to yesterday’s post about iPad alternatives, John Paczkowski at All Things Digital reports that inside sources at Hewlett Packard tell him that HP’s Android slate that was supposed to come out in 4Q2010 has been delayed and will not be released this year.

Paczkowski speculates that HP may be planning to concentrate on its new subsidiary Palm’s planned WebOS slate PC. HP has said it plans to expand WebOS beyond smartphones to other platforms. Perhaps they are concentrating their resources in that direction, and the Android slate will not be released at all?

Regardless, knocking the iPad off of its current pedestal is going to take some doing. Hopefully HP will be more successful than Palm was against the iPhone with its Pre.

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