Of all the things that have come out of HP's Palm acquisition so far, this gives me the most confidence. It signals a clean break with the old Palm practice of firing blindly with multiple strategies on multiple platforms; it shows they have focus, and that they're confident in the value of WebOS.<p>I think Windows Phone 7 has a lot of promise itself, but HP has everything they need here for full vertical integration of their mobile experience. Good to see they don't plan on wasting it.
I had the chance to use a reference WP7 device last week, and walked away almost entirely unimpressed. I had my doubts about its chances of success already; this news doesn't bode well at all for Microsoft.
So who, apart from HTC, will be an MS partner? Samsung made the reference hardware but are heavy on Bada these days. Sharp have history but got burned by Kin? I guess that leaves Asus and maybe LG.
I wonder how they will brand this? Use HP or Palm?<p>Subjectively both brands are a little stale comparing to Android and Apple. Maybe they could work with Nintendo and use WebOS to create a Nintendo branded IP/Phone device.<p>Id buy that and download many of their games onto such a device. Games are the biggest draw on Apple, a Nintendo phone would probably be huge!