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In a departure from HP's original iPaq smartphone mission, the company is planning a consumer-oriented smartphone that may or may not be the slider-QWERTY phone codenamed "Oak." Greg at MobileCrunch writes:
Back in January, word got out of a new WinMo 6.1 touchscreen handset floating around the Hewlett Packard labs. Called the Oak and tentatively set for a September launch on Vodafone, it had a number pad on its face and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard packed away underneath. Unfortunately, all's been mum on the matter since the initial leak. September came and went, and the Oak didn't make an appearance.

Current consumer smartphones like the Palm Centro and the T-Mobile Wing are selling well and adding higher-end functions to lower-end phones seems to be the trend, especially considering the coming rise of Android. But can HP sell outside of the IT departments that traditionally bought its PDAs and smartphones?




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