HP abandons Android

HP traditionally used Windows Mobile – until WP7 came along. The manufacturer switched to Android shortly, and then took over Palm-

Mobile Business Briefing now reports the following:

Jon Rubinstein, the Palm chief executive who has stayed on to lead HP’s gadgets business (following HP’s US$1.2 billion purchase of Palm earlier this year), told the Financial Times. It has abandoned a project to launch a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system and there will be no tablet based on the system, Rubinstein said.

Given that HP has shown a nice amount of Android devices at last year’s MWC, this is a good sign…

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