Despite the fact that HP spent $1.2 billion on Palm and then subsequently dismantled the mobile OS and its hardware without ever giving it much of a shot at survival, the company has hinted recently that it's ready to get back into the smartphone game. Last September, CEO Meg Whitman said that "we have to ultimately offer a smartphone," and more recent reports have indicated that the company is looking to build Android-based tablets and smartphones. Those rumblings got a shot in the arm recently — in response to a question about a potential smartphone, an HP executive from the company's Asia Pacific division told The Indian Express that it was still in the works and that "HP has to be in the game." The executive also said that "when HP...
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