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We have come across some interesting devices from HP before, and most recently, the HP Prime, which is not an autobot in secret, but rather, a color graphing calculator. Surely the HP Prime caters to an extremely niche market, and something that would carry far more mass appeal would be the HP WindsorNot, which has been touted to be a full-touchscreen webOS smartphone that made its rounds on the Internet in a promotional video but was never really released simply because there was no room in the mobile operating system market for webOS to thrive.

The HP WindsorNot has appeared yet again online in a bunch of leaked photos, and webOS Nation reported that this particular smartphone was originally in the pipeline for a launch right after the Pre 3 sometime in late 2011. Unfortunately, legend has it that HP webOS head back then, Jon Rubinstein, decided to allocate additional resources to the Pre 3 compared to the WindsorNot as he is restricted by limited assets, in addition to other factors. This caused the HP WindsorNot to be pushed back to 2012, which was too late by then to salvage the situation.

The HP WindsorNot prototype that you see here sports a 4-inch 800×480, a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor and 8GB of internal memory, with a microUSB port to boot. Ah, what could have been…

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Well, it looks like there’s still a few surprises left from HP’s brief foray into webOS hardware. As webOS Nation has discovered, the design firm Transparent House posted a brief clip of a device described as “WindsorNot” some eight months ago, which is very clearly a touchscreen-only webOS smartphone. As the site notes, that appears to be the very same device that had previously turned up in leaked photos under the codename “Stingray,” and it estimates that the phone has the same 3.6-inch screen as the Pre 3. Details are scarce beyond that, but you can get a good look at what might have been in the video after the break — not to mention yet another look at the unreleased TouchPad Go (a.k.a. Opal) on Transparent House’s Vimeo page linked below.

Update: Looks like this one is remaining elusive. The video has now unfortunately been pulled.

Update 2: We’ve removed the still from the video at the request of Transparent House. The image above is the previously leaked photo of the device.

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