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Last month HP launched a new Mobility business unit with a focus on consumer tablets, but it seems it’s just one piece of the puzzle as the company wants to also include smartphones. Speaking to Fox Business News, CEO Meg Whitman said that HP is eyeing the smartphone market, though no timetable has been set. She said: “We have to ultimately offer a smartphone because in many countries of the world that would be your first computing device. We are a computing company, we have to take advantage of that form factor.”
HP is coming off of a flat third quarter in which the company saw a drop in sales for its PCs and printers, and now investors are pushing it to grow the business.
But is there a space for another entrant in the smartphone market? The chances are slim for HP to do it all alone; perhaps it can join forces with an existing player and take advantage of the scale. We’ll see how that goes…
[Via: TheVerge]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
