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| HP CEO: we have to offer a smartphone |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-14 21:20:52 |
| "'We are working on this,' Ms. Whitman told Fox Business Network in an interview. 'We have to ultimately offer a smartphone because in many countries of the world that would be your first computing device... We are a computing company.'" On the same day the Pre 2 a reader is loaning me arrives in the mail. This is just cruel. Update: "HP Bender Android smartphone appears in benchmark details". Eh. |
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| No you don´t! |
| By Gestahlt on 2012-09-14 21:35:45 |
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HP already offered Smartphones and i was the accidental owner of 2 (HP iPAQ or whatever that crap was called, i am so happy to have em forgotten...) I got them from my company as business phones.. and they were outright awful. They were loaded with WinCE or Mobile 6 or whatever that mobile spawn called itself and it was horrible. On the first iPAQ (It had small display and a regular phone keyboard) the usability was outright horrible, the display was horrible, battery drain was horriblle. Oh and it crashed very often... and guess what.. the one with the bigger screen and touch was no better. They should focus on promoting on what they have and make it better. HP did a lot of f*ck ups lately in the technical department and they really need to think about what they try to be. Business class printers? Yeah, with their new Firmware based on WinCE and lot of crashes and cheap plastic.. way to go and show off quality. Servers? Wahaha, yeah, lets release the new G(x) series and have them buggy as hell. Oh have i mentioned their great Slate 2 Tablets? I would go into a corner and be ashamed of branding them HP... I hate that kind of attitude. They want to do new markets but they have to fix their home first before they do the garden. HP is in my opinion in a mess in every thinkable way. They behave like a headless chicken. Their need to get their priorities sorted out first and then focus on that instead of being everywhere. They had that right but they wasted it by cutting edges on the wrong corners. I wish Meg good luck with that and i hope she will be able to fix this mess called HP. |
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| Comment by fretinator |
| By fretinator on 2012-09-14 21:41:49 |
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What a shame - everybody is copying the Palm (ever seen rows and columns of icons you lauch by touching them), and it lays on the dust heap. Palm, Palm, wherefore are thou Palm?? I don't think WebOS has much of a chance of resurrecting from the hobby world. I agree that they will most likely sell an HP branded Windows 8 phone. HP made some very sweet Windows Mobile devices in the past - IPAQ 8 anyone? Oops! I guess the person above me no likey IPAQ. Anyone else have a better experience? They also made the Journada - oh and the HP 200LX, they always seemed pretty nice. Edited 2012-09-14 21:45 UTC |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: Comment by fretinator |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-09-14 22:05:46 |
| Loved my iPaq to death. Completely used it up. One of my favourite devices of all time. |
| - Score: 2 |
| Meh |
| By WorknMan on 2012-09-15 01:48:27 |
| Yet another Android phone launching with ice cream sandwich. This thing is already a fail before it's even released. |
| - Score: 2 |
| Comment by Soulbender |
| By Soulbender on 2012-09-15 02:18:50 |
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Edited 2012-09-15 02:19 UTC |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: Meh |
| By some1 on 2012-09-15 02:26:56 |
| Launching? This is a rumor about a prototype. |
| - Score: 2 |
| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-15 02:33:35 |
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I'm not sure Bender is a great name. http://m.rollingstone.com/?redir... |
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| Ultimate Revenge |
| By transami on 2012-09-15 05:33:42 |
| Hahahahaha... Can't wait to root me a Nokia 920 and install webOS. The ultimate revenge! |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE[2]: Comment by fretinator |
| By Kochise on 2012-09-15 07:32:29 |
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Dell AXIM X51V vs. HP iPAQ 240 : FIGHT ! Kochise |
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| RE: Ultimate Revenge |
| By MechR on 2012-09-15 09:38:47 |
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> Hahahahaha... Can't wait to root me a Nokia 920 and install webOS. The ultimate revenge! I can just imagine your face while you're saying that... http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumbl... Edit: Curses, I guess image codes don't work here; oh well. Edited 2012-09-15 09:42 UTC |
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