HP To Launch New Handsets Into Jaws Of Competive Market

Hewlett-Packard

made a mistake when it bought Palm. It is about to make a much more costly mistake in launching a series of smartphones that run the rickety Palm webOS, scheduled for early next year. The mobile operating system was a failure for Palm. There is no reason to believe that HP can change that. Palm ran into two problems when it launched its Pre generation of handsets. The first is that Palm had neither the distribution network nor the marketing budget to support its launch. The second problem was that Palm was forced to enter a market dominated by Symbian, Apple

OS, and Blackberry

OS smartphones. Google

had also recently released its Android mobile operating system.

.