| If HP are to licence webOS there is only one company out there they should think of licensing it to and no other. answer : HTC HTC has all the things webOS needs. 1. A strong dev community, just take a look at xda-developers.com. Devs have been hacking HTC devices since the dawn of time, even back when they only made OEM handsets. The community is dedicated and goes along with changes that HTC make. the phone I am using now is a HTC hd2 nearly two years old it came running Windows mobile 6.5, shortly after the HTC community hacked it to run android off the desire, then they got it running ubuntu ( and modified it to work with touchscreens ), then Windows phone 7, then started working on meego. You can get any virtually any version of Android on this phone even none HTC roms, like the dell streak. If HTC take on webOS you can be sure there will be a version cooked up for every current HTC device by the community. If that isn't the Dev community webOS needs then I don't know what is. 2. they build great hardware and have a reputation for quality. 3. they have a higher aspiration for innovation around the brand than samsung and seem more willing to try new things. 4. they like to focus on user experience and do a pretty good job of it. I would not go for any flavour of Android that is not running the sense ui, a lot of effort has been put into it and it beats the stock Android interface every other manufacturer churns out. I can't see how HP can do it on there own, but I can't see how they could do it with generic licensing either. They need one and only one strong manufacturer in the mobile space to propell webOS, and I'm sorry but I can't see a better fit than HTC. of course I'm sure HTC would have something to say on the matter. |