We all know just how competitive the smartphone market can be, and it is a dog-eat-dog world out there, having seen our fair share of “fallen comrades”, so to speak. Well, HP was once a force to be reckoned with in the world of smartphones, what with the Palm brand being under their watchful eye. I do admit that the Palm Pre with webOS was a decent handset and operating system by all means, but unfortunately, it just did not manage to capture the imagination of the masses along the way. HP CEO Meg Whitman was overheard saying that HP will need to make significant progress in the world of smartphones within the next 5 years, and if they failed to do so, HP could find themselves in the unenviable position of being “locked out of a huge segment of the population in many countries of the world.”
Apart from that, Whitman also mentioned , “We don’t have any plans to introduce a smartphone in 2013, but we’ve got to start thinking about what is our unique play, how do we capture this element of the personal computing market?”
