Originally, HP CEO Mark Hurd said that HP didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. Use time travel and set your machine to 24 hours later, and you’ll find his new statement, clearly spelling out that HP will use webOS in tons of web-connected gadgets, including smartphones and printers:
When we look at the market, we see an array of interconnected devices, including tablets, printers, and of course, smartphones. We believe webOS can become the backbone for many of HP’s small form factor devices, and we expect to expand webOS’s footprint beyond just the smartphone market, all while leveraging our financial strength, scale, and global reach to grow in smartphones.
The HTC Smart (aka dumbphone) is coming to Europe and Asia this Spring. It runs on the Qualcomm Brew Mobile Platform, has 256MB of RAM and ROM, a 3 megapixel camera, 3G plus quadband EDGE, and Sense UI as the main interface. With specs as low as those, you can expect that the HTC Smart (HTC’s first true dumbphone) will have a pretty attractive price.
The Ziilabs creation, the Zii Trinity is a go (sort of)! This smartphone truly has the power to be one of the coolest phones of all time: Packing Full HD video, 3.5 / 4G wireless, built-in WiFi, 5 megapixel autofocus camera, accelerated 3D graphics, and mini-HDMI and Composite video outputs, as well as Android with ZiiLife – a content delivery and productivity suite. And then, and then, it’s powered by either that awesome powerful ZMS-08 chip or ZMS-05. Who wouldn’t love this thing? Who?
