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HP to ship touch screen consumer smart phone
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- IT TOPICS:Mobile & Wireless
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- No, I'm not kidding. The Wall Street Journal reports that HP is secretly planning a new iPaq smart phone with touch screen and keypad. The Windows Mobile phone will hit Europe within two months!
The report also says the phone will be released worldwide "later." Gosh, thanks for the details!
HP has a lousy history with smart phones. It had one of the earliest models -- a variant of the Jornada more than five years ago -- remember Jornada? -- that hit in Europe, but was unceremoniously killed off as a casualty of the HP/Compaq merger.
The phone will be marketed both to business users and consumers -- targeted in a similar way as, say, the Blackberry Pearl. But to the best of my knowledge, this is the first HP smart phone to venture into the consumer marketplace at all.
Would YOU buy a phone from HP?
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