HTC is the phone maker these days, from the HTC Hero to the HD2. They have both Windows Mobile and Android covered in style with the Sense interface. I’ve used a bunch of phones on both platforms, and including the Motorola Droid I’m currently evaluating, after using an HTC phone with Sense, they all are just flat boring.
At the HD2 launch this week, CEO Peter Chou let slip that the company is “carefully looking into [the netbook] category and how it can be part of that.” He went on to state that HTC would not be happy making a “me too” netbook, instead they would be looking to add extra value to such a product.
HTC is no stranger to the special, small notebook market. Their HTC Shift was one of the most innovative such notebooks, and it was released almost two years ago. The inability of low-performance components to run Windows Vista adequately, coupled with a high price tag, doomed the Shift to market failure. If you recall it had a dual processor setup that ran Windows Mobile alongside Vista. Could we see a HTC netbook running both Windows 7 and Android in the cards?
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