HP bought Palm while I slept
Clearly time to wake up. Palm has been bought, or rather is going to be bought, not by HTC or Lenovo, but by HP. For US$1.2b apparently. Brilliant news I think. HP and Palm may well be a good match, with both companies having a strong engineering and innovation heritage. HP used to have a strong contender in the business smartphone market, the iPAQ, which was built around Windows Mobile (the old one), but can’t remember when last I have seen a new iPAQ launched or when last I have seen someone using one. So HP needed to do something if they wanted to get back into the mobile phone market, and Palm may be their ticket. Palm’s excellent WebOS may go far with the financial muscle of HP to back it. Go Palm and HP. Go here for the press release.
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