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The electronic giant teased a couple of interesting VAIO laptops. First one is Freestyle Hybrid PC that slides between tablet mode and laptop mode like Samsung Sliding PC, but with a seemingly slimmer bottom-half sans trackpad. No word on specs, prices or availability here, but you may recall our proven tipster mentioning a 9.4-inch screen and a $799 launch price.

The report expectedly remains confidential, but HP was at least kind enough to repeatedly mention TouchPad in its latest FCC filling, which saves us a bit of digging, and it means that the webOS tablet remains on track for a US launch soon sometime in June. It may get some cloud-based additions before then? HP will have more to say its Veer-focused event that is already scheduled for May 2nd, we already told about that

Windows Phone and BlackBerry Mobiles struggle to attract the developers attention. It applies to only the users of cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development entertainment, but it appears what Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingly uphill battle for mobile mind-share. Only 29 percent of devs responded to the companys quarterly survey they were very interested in putting their waves on WP7, a fall of 7 points from last quarter and far less than market leaders Android and iOS. News is even worse for RIM, it saw a fall of 11 points in developers interest for BlackBerry, and now trails the folks from Redmond. The survey is based on only 2,760 developers using a particular product. As you see the charts, you can see the struggle of both WP7 and RIM.

The official announcement has come; Casios macho GzOne Commando is coming to Verizon on April 28th for the price of $200 on-contract. In addition to meeting 810G military specifications for water, dust, shock, vibration, salt fog, solar radiation, and temperature extremes, it runs Android 2.2(Froyo) and features 3.6-inch (480*800) display, 5MP camera with autofocus, microSD slot, Wi-Fi, Stereo Bluetooth, and a hotspot for sharing 3G with up to five devices. It got bundles of apps for outdoorsy types, compass, pedometer, star gazer and thermometer. For more details read the press release.

The US had to wait for its Eee Pad Transformer launch little longer than rest of the world, but its finally got its wish today. Amazons order page for the $400 Honeycomb tablet appears to have gone from in stock to out of stock within mere minutes, while target the supplier fulfilling orders on behalf of Amazon also lists the Transformer as presently unavailable. ASUSs own Where To Buy page lead us to a bunch of dead ends as well, while Best Buy being the only retailer we can currently find with stock in US. If you want yours click on the source links down and get it.

Sonys hosts a press event in Tokyo, their its announcement is a pair of Android Tablets, two Honeycomb slates, first one is 9.4-inch S1 media tablet with curved top much like folded magazine and both front and rear facing cameras. Some of the S1 specs are Tegra 2 SoC and customized Quick and Smooth touch panel UI with Swift web browser. It can also be used as remote for Sony gear.