Half of All Americans to Use Smartphones by End of 2011

In my last weekly column at WindowsRoundup.com, I discussed how HP Palm have some time to take advantage of the nascent nature of the smartphone market and its increasing fragmentation. I based this on the statistic of around 20% of Americans owning a smartphone today. It looks like I was just a bit off—in fact, according to data generated by pollster Nielson and reported by Asymco, the percentage is a little...

The Next webOS Smartphone: Another Rumor

webOS World has published another rumor about the next webOS smartphone, and this one’s a doozy: Initially the Palm c40 (under Palm) was put in two concepts designs. One was a slide out portrait, very reminiscent of the Pre. The other was a horizontal slider very much like the Epic 4G.  The stats back in March/April were quite impressive: 1ghz CPU 3.7″ glass screen Revamped physical keyboard Amazing...

HP Loves All Its Products, Not Just Smartphones

There’s still talk, believe it or not, around the question of whether or not HP is interested in making smartphones. Some of it is concern from smartphone aficionados that smartphones won’t take their proper and necessary place at the center of HP’s mobile strategy. Some—or most—of it is from the same doom-and-gloomers who seem Hell-bent on attacking Palm for its failure to dominate the industry. However,...

HP CEO Mark Hurd and the Palm Smartphone Controversy

HP’s CEO Mark Hurd answered some questions at a recent meeting that stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the Palm community. I won’t take the time to quote him here; that’s already been done to death. Instead, I thought I’d post some conclusions that I’ve arrived at after listening to the audio from the actual meeting (available here). I wouldn’t be surprised to see some clarification come from HP...