HP... to Converge, or Not to Converge!

HP... to Converge, or Not to Converge!

Published by Convergent
07-08-2003

HP... to Converge, or Not to Converge!

Yet another bit of information has been revealed that points to a converged pdaPhone from HP. MobileCommerceWorld is reporting that Raymond Wah, vice-president of HP's mobile business unit for the Asia-Pacific, has confirmed that HP intends to converge Bluetooth, WiFi, and mobile phone capability into a single device. Don't get your credit cards out yet... they are shooting for delivering this next year. That would say to me that its 12-18 months from being a product. Wah mentioned that they need to clear some hurdles like battery life and pricing.

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By morrowjeff on 07-11-2003, 11:36 PM

The long tent pole

As part of my day job I've learned (prolly not much of a surprise) that the long - and lengthening - tent pole in mobile phone/pda development is the integration of all the device (RF phone-related, system OS, voice-recognition, camera, wireless access, synchronization, more and more other apps) software with the carrier software/system/feature set-desired. In short, the HP guy is dreaming if thinks that straightening out the battery problem is gonna take care of market entry timing.

FWIW,
Jeff