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HP Exec: More Palm WebOS Devices Coming

Famously plain-spoken HP executive Rahul Sood asked Palm WebOS fans for more patience Tuesday in awhere he pledged that "over the next 12 months we will see the makings of a new portfolio and the beginning of something great again."

Palm's new devices will have "new form factors," Sood added.

Sood was responding to a slew of Twitter and press queries around the future of Palm's WebOS, which has been in question since . After acquiring Palm, HP sent several conflicting messages: first, Palm's chief executive Jon Rubinstein said HP would "" on WebOS. Thensaid he was , after which the company said that both .

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While Sood's title of "CTO, Global Gaming" doesn't directly address Palm, he's been engaging the WebOS community more tightly than any other Palm executive.

"HP Palm is working on both smartphones and other Web-connected devices … HP Palm is committed to delivering WebOS on a wide range of devices," he wrote in the blog post.

Sood's "keep the faith" message, though, was short on details. Recently we've seen details ofand heard about a potential , but Palm's newest product in the marketplace is still the nine-month-old .

"I'm confident that even the defectors of the WebOS community will be back once they see the breadth of product coming out of HP in the future," Sood wrote.