Earlier today, HP announced that they have purchased struggling Palm. Immediately following the announcement, people began wondering what HP could use from Palm in their own products and the obvious two that came up are a tablet and a netbook. They would obviously use Palm's webOS, that is currently used in the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi smart phones, and seemed to be a success with most users.

During the conference call earlier today, Todd Bradley, executive VP of HP's Personal Systems Group, said that there are "a lot of opportunities" with the purchase of Palm. He went on to say that HP could use the webOS mobile operating system as a touchscreen interface for new hardware.

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein and Brian Humphries, HP's senior VP of Strategy and Corporate Development, spoke with Engadget earlier today and revealed HP's plans to "double down on webOS," which they are saying is the main part of the deal.

Finally, Rubinstein said that HP will now be a direct competitor to Apple, Google and many other companies that are on the mobile market.