In an interview with Fox Business Network, HP CEO Meg Whitman said that her company recognizes the need to eventually build and sell another smartphone in the future. "We have to ultimately offer a smartphone because in many countries of the world that is your first computing device," said Whitman. Whether or not this means HP will re-use webOS, the promising mobile operating system first seen on the Palm Pre, which it inadvertently killed when it acquired Palm for $1.2 billion USD, is unknown.
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- HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion back in 2010.
- There has been some speculation that HP may go with a BlackBerry-powered solution for its new line of smartphones in the future.
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Frankly we think it’s too late in the game for HP to start its own thing.- Emil Protalinski, The Next Web
HP burned a lot of bridges with webOS, so honestly we'd wager our money on a new HP smartphone running Windows Phone 8 from long-time big money partner Microsoft, or maybe (less likely) Android.- Derek Kessler, webOS Nation
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