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Hewlett-Packard is planning on releasing a consumer-oriented smartphone, making a sharp break with their previous plan of providing more enterprise-focused devices, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The unnamed device will be released first in Europe, sometime in the late fourth quarter, and will be marketed by a mobile carrier and sold in retail stores. The phone will run on Windows Mobile 6.1, be a touch-screen device and have a full QWERTY keyboard. A worldwide release is scheduled for sometime in 2009.
The device is the latest in HP's line of iPaq devices, which have been marketed as business-oriented devices similar to some of Research In Motion's BlackBerry handsets, though HP does not have nearly the market share that RIM has.
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Comments
Posted by Anonymous | October 3, 2008 - 12:27pm
HP should consider to release QWERTY phones.
RIM is aiming pearl handset which 8220 is the first icebreaker model.
The next big wave is QWERTY handset for existing clam-shell cellular phone market which its market size is more than 10 times than smartphones.
Actually, the definition of smartphone is very vague, and need to re-define.
SureType for clam-shell was failed 2 years ago.
Samsung proved by their RIM featured phone.
Now, RIM is trying to push their SureType into
this market.
But, you know what? Suretype has a dilemma same as T9word.
FIO-KeyBO will be a next defact input method for
multi billion cellular phone market.^_^; -yoshi.
Posted by Anonymous | October 4, 2008 - 1:45am
Anybody in technology should boycott sales of HP products in general, and of the HP smartphone in particular. By laying off recently 25,000 American workers and moving their jobs to Asia, HP has proven that it is not a good corporate citizen. HP is not the only company dumping its American employees. It is about time though for American consumers to awaken and resist the loss of our jobs abroad. With the loss of jobs here, Americans lose purchasing power and our entire economy suffers. BUY ONLY FROM COMPANIES THAT DO NOT REPLACE AMERICAN WORKERS WITH WORKERS ABROAD! The Swedes protect their jobs that way, why can't we?
Posted by Straight Facts & A Question | October 7, 2008 - 11:27am
I believe HP said the layoffs would occur over the next 3 years, not immediately. Also, the layoffs are not solely about moving jobs to Asia. Anytime a company acquires another company the size of EDS, LARGE efficiency gains (layoffs) are inevitable.
Is mis-stating facts in an attempt to convince people not to buy from a US-based company the right way to help the US compete in the world economy? I think HP acquiring EDS will make the US economy stronger in the long run.
Get your facts straight.
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