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HP smart phones with Palm’s webOS arriving early next year
HP is releasing smart phones running on Palm-built webOS software from early 2011 — sooner than you might have expected.
Hewlett-Packard bought Palm with the aim of tapping into a fast-growing smart-phone market that was quickly passing it by. Palm was finding it difficult to make headway in a crowded market, but had a rich history of development with handheld devices.
Senior vice president Eric Cador said the webOS software HP gobbled up when it acquired Palm earlier this year was “fundamental” to the deal, Reuters reported.
It made sense. You might have forgotten about the Palm Pre from last year, but it showed webOS was well capable of doing great things.
So what will these new HP smart phones look like? If they’re going to be in the shops as soon as early next year, it might just be running webOS 2.0, which is still in development. But already webOS 2.0 looks like it will be a significant step up, more than capable of turning a few heads. Continue reading…