HP on Thursday shook the mobile devices world in announcing that it’s killing off its webOS-powered smartphones and TouchPad tablet line. The TouchPad reportedly suffered poor sales in its short few weeks on the market, and little has been heard about HP’s Palm Pre family of smartphones. HP said it’ll continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward. “They’re just trying to say they’re looking for somebody to buy webOS,” Carl Howe, director of anywhere consumer research at the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld.
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Will There Be Life After HP for WebOS?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 19, 2011 05:00 AMHP on Thursday shook the mobile devices world in announcing that it’s killing off its webOS-powered smartphones and TouchPad tablet line. The TouchPad reportedly suffered poor sales in its short few weeks on the market, and little has been heard about HP’s Palm Pre family of smartphones. HP said it’ll continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward. “They’re just trying to say they’re looking for somebody to buy webOS,” Carl Howe, director of anywhere consumer research at the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld.