HP: We've Abandoned Our Android Plans

Well... kind of makes sense.

They spent $1bill+ for a dying tech... might as well use it. Rather than look like idiots. Why use 2-3 other brands when you JUST bought a whole company out?

TBH I'm not disappointed because there is already so many other options out there.

Sorry HP

I'm more disappointed that they have yet to release anything tablet or phone wise. WebOS has some neat potential, its a shame to see it stuck on that crappy old hardware.

Smart business move, "Were going with the Palm OS, yea you know, the one that tanked. We here at HP like to go against the grain."
-epic fail

HP shame on you for buying Palm lol. Your executives are running your company to the ground.

HP probably looked at the KIN 1 and 2 and at first were like ... and then they LOL'd

I would guess that's what they're working on now. Thus I'd kind of see this as good news. More competition to WinMo7/Android/etc..!

LOL. HP don't really have any "mobile eggs" yet to worry too much about the baskets.

webOS is still the best mobile OS in existence. The first iteration failed due to Palm's lack of sufficient funds to push it, not from being a bad OS - v2 will perform far far better, have much better hardware, and the biggest tech company in the world behind it. In 6 months time, the mobile landscape will look very different, with webOS and WinPhone7 taking a large slice of the pie

The question is:
does HP have enough "webOS" {if you speak spanish, you'll get it , or in english: balls} to make it work?

Because WebOS will never truly compete and they will be forced to catchup or abandon the format later. OSs are really about available software, and there are finite dev resources available.

Oops meant to cite:

They spent $1bill+ for a dying tech... might as well use it. Rather than look like idiots. Why use 2-3 other brands when you JUST bought a whole company out?

For $2.1billion You would of hoped they would of released a webOS device sooner and it would be a golden egg of a device! other wise HP's are going to be left with nothing more than a limp omelet......

..............I'll get my coat

Yup. HP Doesn't exactly carry a name people trust these days. And now they're sticking with webos? Glad I don't own HP stock.

Don't care. Bought 2 HP products in recent years: a laptop and a desktop. Won't be buying any others. 'Nuff said.

They are going to fail in this market segment,period.

It should be interesting to see what HP can do with WebOS. If they can push it hard enough it might be able to compete with Android and IOS. Personally I'd like to see it happen because competition is always good in any market.

I personally think that webOS is a dead cause. It clearly hasn't received acceptance and isn't up to par in terms of development pace.

Actually I couldn't be happier. I think HP should focus on making printers because that's what they know best .

Buying palm for a billion bucks was their first mistake. Their second mistake is continuing to use a dead technology just because they were dumb enough to buy it.

It's a well done OS right now and if they can push out up-to-date devices it has the chance to really take off. Palm kind of death spiraled and I doubt they left them with much for hardware designs when they bought them out so they probably had to come up with the designs on their own or spend time adapting designs they had already been working on.

Honestly, if you'd ever used webOS you'd realize its everything Android wants to be. A completely open platform with huge customization options and real company support rather than the loose support that Android receives from Google and the companies using it on their devices. HP has been doing a lot to try to increase official dev support for the platform the past few months and reduce a lot of the dev time requires to move into the platform from iOS or Android. But even without the official support there is a huge level of unofficial dev support that has made up the difference while Palm was in its death spiral.

Well i've used almost every HP smartpone they've ever made, and cane say that they have all sucked. Therefore it is no surprise to me they are going to continue the trend and have even spent over a billion to insure that they do. MS is not lying when they say they arent a big influence, except for to steer people away from anything resembling their product.. MS probably caught a break that HP wasnt trying to be at the forefront of the "Windows Phone 7" fiasco.

I'm glad to see HP focusing on webOS. They have enough resources to get it on good hardware and get some of the major apps ported over from iOS and Android. Which is really all it needs; in every other area that matters to users it's competitive.

Android is a commodity market, and HP doesn't need to play in it. They spent a lot of money on Palm so they didn't have to.

They can get higher margins, through greater differentiation, with WebOS.

The market isn't screaming for yet another "me too" Android phone, but if HP gets WebOS right, they should make much more profits. And if they don't think they can get it right, they shouldn't have bought Palm.

I'd have been shocked if they offered a phone with WebOS, or Windows. What sense would that make?

I've used a number of HP PDA devices (though admittedly not SmartPhone - I bought an HTC for that) and liked them all. HP did seem to go through a big slump for quite a while, which I guess is why I bought the HTC Windows 6 phone.

For me the tighter Windows integration is important - I know it's not to everybody, and that many say the Windows phones are rubbish - but it's important to me.

Windows Phone 7 looks very impressive so far (unfortunately at a distance, not hands on). Having liked HP PDA's in the past I would have looked forward to an HP Windows Phone 7 device, and quite likely would have bought one.

For me if I found all the benefits of a new WebOS so why not.

They were right, it is rubbish. So are most the current phones too. I had a get different apps for android to do a lot of stuff I would've hoped to be able to do out of the box with a smartphone. But the apps are there though and pretty good at what they do: ftp server, file manager, wifi hotspot.

I haven't had the opportunity to use an iphone so I couldn't tell much about it.

I used an ipaq for a while and I thought they were horrid mostly because of windows CE. The hardware was not BAD design as far as ease of use, except maybe for hard resets which were awkward to do and were required on a fairly regular basis.

I can already see the innovative angle that windows phone 7 could go for; just can't imagine competition would lag behind much; especially not apple.

The apps eco-sphere is going to be the deciding factor.

Apple started it first, Android was just 1 year behind, and other big-shots like Samsung, Intel, Nokia played catch-up later. Even Android hasn't caught up with the Apple App Store after about 3 years, and the market is already starting to be crowded. The rest of them are going to have to innovate like crazy to even get a reasonable slice.

If they don't think out of the box, I'm afraid HP will be smothered in the box. I hope Palm + HP has enough brains for that kind of stuff.

wait hp make phones!?

let's see what WebOS can do. it's always good for us consumers to have another
option to choose from. don't count off a determined competitor, especially one
willing to put in huge resources on something.

lol palm OS over android, sorry HP but you will not be selling your tablets or phones, bugger all software out there, this nis one of the dumbest ideas they have had, and believe me they have had some