HP plans to re-enter smartphone market
Hewlett Packard plans to re-enter the smartphone market following a change of upper management at the company.
In an interview with the Indian Express, HP's senior director of consumer PC and media tablet products Yam Su Yin said that smartphones are in the planning stages. "The answer is yes," Yin told the paper in response to a direct question as to whether smartphones are on the cards, "but I cannot give a timetable. It would be silly if we say no. HP has to be in the [mobile] game".
With the PC market shrinking as the tablet and smartphone market grows, companies without a mobile strategy are being left behind. HP is playing its cards close to its chest, but the new smartphone line is almost certain not to be based on webOS, the operating system the company paid so much money for just three years ago.
Instead, Google's Android operating system is the most likely candidate. Recently, HP launched the Android-powered Slate 7 tablet, so any HP smartphones are likely to follow suit.
An early pioneer of palmtop computing, the precursor to the modern
smartphone, Palm was acquired by HP in 2010 in a deal valued at $1.2
billion. At the time, HP said it was buying the company to help bolster
its mobile device offerings, with a trio of webOS products: the Veer and Pre3 smartphones and the TouchPad
tablet. Declaring the sleek webOS as the future of computing, HP even
announced that it would be pre-installing the operating system on all
its PCs and desktops alongside Microsoft's Windows.
In an interview with the Indian Express, HP's senior director of consumer PC and media tablet products Yam Su Yin said that smartphones are in the planning stages. "The answer is yes," Yin told the paper in response to a direct question as to whether smartphones are on the cards, "but I cannot give a timetable. It would be silly if we say no. HP has to be in the [mobile] game".
With the PC market shrinking as the tablet and smartphone market grows, companies without a mobile strategy are being left behind. HP is playing its cards close to its chest, but the new smartphone line is almost certain not to be based on webOS, the operating system the company paid so much money for just three years ago.
Instead, Google's Android operating system is the most likely candidate. Recently, HP launched the Android-powered Slate 7 tablet, so any HP smartphones are likely to follow suit.
An early pioneer of palmtop computing, the precursor to the modern
smartphone, Palm was acquired by HP in 2010 in a deal valued at $1.2
billion. At the time, HP said it was buying the company to help bolster
its mobile device offerings, with a trio of webOS products: the Veer and Pre3 smartphones and the TouchPad
tablet. Declaring the sleek webOS as the future of computing, HP even
announced that it would be pre-installing the operating system on all
its PCs and desktops alongside Microsoft's Windows.
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