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HP Why you don´t give webOS a chance ? The mobile race needs a third horse.
HP lacked was the desire to stick webOS out and did not give it a chance to mature .
Although the last 3.0.4 update on the TouchPad is showing a more user friendly OS, now.
Our suggestions:
For a re-launch HP should get rid of the cheap plastic case , and give the consumer two options for the wireless charging: with and without it. If without it, make the tablet thinner , light good looking aluminium case, rear canera, sd card and a quad core chip once for all.
Be the one of the first with it. Price , at least $100.- down your competition for the 10 inch display size and at least $150 down for the 7 inch version.
It means $399.- for the 16GB 10 inch tablet and $349.- for the 7 inch model 16GB , both wi-fi only. We are talking for new tablets models. Hardware fixed.
And a lot of TV ads.
Smartphones.-
HTC, Samsung, Sony, LG, Sharp , all of them works with Goggle´s Android OS “open source” , but the hardwares are made from themselves.
Now, HP have the webOS, if they don´t want to “open source” it, our suggestion is to make a partnership with one of them for hardware. Google did it with Samsung for the Galaxy Nexus. Why not HP with HTC, or Samsung, or Sony, or LG, or Sharp. HTC and Samsung might be the best options.
Samsung hardware without own OS but with Android OS is number one for the 3Q 2011 in smartphones.
By the other way go with smartphones with a quad-core cpu, at least a 8 mpxls camera, and discharge for ever the physical keyboard and bring a bigger 4 inch screen gorilla glass OLED display.
Spread a 8, 16, 32 and 64GB versions world phones for LTE networks for the same model.
The mobile race needs a third horse. Source:ZDNet
The first and second horse.
The two big horses in this race, Google Android and Apple iOS, who are mopping the field with all other contenders. That needs to change to allow the hot segment to be truly competitive. We need at least another horse to get established in the mobile tech race.
The management of Research in Motion (RIM) have all but officially taken the BlackBerry completely out of the race with continual missteps in the market. The recently announced BBX platform that will become the new BlackBerry OS has a lot of us scratching our heads over the viability of the effort.
HP was poised to leverage the webOS platform purchased with Palm, and had a decent shot at grabbing that third spot.
The webOS platform may end up going to someone else, but will lose all momentum HP/Palm has built. It’s not likely that the platform will have enough to move into that third space.
Microsoft is looking pretty good for the position with the Mango-ified Windows Phone. The update is looking really solid, the real unknown is how the market will accept it. It will need to grab a lot of market share quickly to have a decent shot at joining the race, and there is not a lot of time.
Microsoft is vulnerable should the tablet market keep growing, with the choice of making Windows its mobile OS of choice for that genre. It will have to get both of those platforms running well to really grab mobile market share.
There aren’t any other viable contenders for the mobile race, which is unusual for such a hot segment.
It’s not for lack of potential sales, it’s more like there isn’t another company with all of the pieces in place to grab them.
It will continue to be Apple and Google slugging it out in the mobile platform war. Both companies are doing what they have been doing well, producing solid products and grabbing lots of customers.
While the top spot could go either way in financial terms, there is a very real legal situation casting a pall on the race. Apple may intend to legally shove Android under the bus eventually, and this could be devastating to the mobile race.
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