HP officially renounced webOS phones and tablet PCs

Beijing time on August 19 morning news, HP's third quarter earnings in the conference, android tablet pc HP announced the official to give up around the TouchPad Tablet PC and mobile phone webOS all operations.

HP said in a press release: We plan to abolish webOS device operations, in particular, TouchPad Tablet PC and webOS phone. android tablet pc We will continue to explore the software to optimize the value of webOS.

But webOS has not been canceled, HP may webOS licensed to other manufacturers, or for other non-webOS phone / tablet devices.HP's personal systems division (Personal Systems Group) or is sold, the department products including smart phones, tablet PCs, WebOS operating system and PC. Tablet PC The department revenues of $ 41 billion, but only contributed 13% of the profits.

Prior to that, taking into account the fierce competition and consumer PC demand substantially reduced, android tablet pc low-margin, high-volume PC business is also seen as a potential spin-off objects.