It won’t be easy for HP to break into the Android tablet space this late in the game. While they do make great hardware, Android isn’t something that they have pushed to the market before. Granted, it has been reported that they have been playing around with Android since 2010, but that doesn’t make us a believer in them. Take LG for instance, they came late to the Android game also, not nearly as late, and have been fumbling to gain a foot hold ever since. It is highly possible that the delay to enter the Android market comes from the earlier versions of the Android OS not performing how HP wanted it to. With Jelly Bean being a pretty amazing version of the OS and the mobile chip set, memory, RAM and screen technology becoming less expensive to produce a solid tablet, HP has a pretty good chance of creating something great.
It will be interesting to see what HP has up its sleeve. We wonder what sort of custom UI they will try to implement. Let’s face it, there isn’t much of a chance of an HP Android based tablet landing without some HP tweaking. They are supposedly holding some closed-door meetings at MWC, but Readwrite is being told not to expect any sort of announcement until after the mobile tech show is over.
Do you think HP stands a chance in the Android tablet market? Will they create something superb at a price point that people will pay, or has Google shot down OEM’s tablets with the Nexus 7 and 10?
Source: ReadWrite
