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How do you take on Apple, and Motorola, and thwart any momentum that
RIM or Microsoft are trying to build? Judging from the buzz, HP has
taken a pretty good run at relocating the smartphone/tablet fight but
there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Here's a take after this
morning's presser.
HP announced the
new crop of webOS devices including the Veer, Pre 3, and TouchPad. Veer
goes after a really small smartphone, with a 2.6″ display. Pre 3 picks
up the where the Pre 2 left off. From hints HP dropped, they're looking
to add Verizon to Sprint as a carrier, but that's not quite official
yet. Then there's the long-awaited TouchPad, but what we saw was really a first-look with a bit more depth.
The answers:
Where
Google is alluding to the direction with Honeycomb, HP went all out to
show they are heading there with webOS. Complete focus on what can be
done with multitasking (serious shot at iOS). Real browsing. Tighter
integration of notifications. More seamless feature integration.
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