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Former Palm CEO: HP’s Android Tablet Tossed

September 28, 2010 at 1:31 pm PT

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Confirming what we first reported here back in July, former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein–who currently heads up Hewlett-Packard’s mobility group, tells the Financial Times that HP has abandoned plans for its Android tablet. Also headed for a dirt nap, the Android smartphone the company was building.

From the FT:

HP is on track to deliver a tablet computer running webOS early next year, as well as a Windows-based tablet that will ship sooner, he said. It has abandoned a project to launch a smartphone based on Google’s Android open source operating system and there will be no tablet based on the system, Mr. Rubinstein said.

Seems HP did indeed reconsider its multi-OS strategy in light of the Palm acquisition and concluded that three operating systems was one too many–at least as far as mobile devices are concerned. For printers it’s just fine, as a commenter below notes.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7K5WQD3NBMVE7TPNSF7AK56OBI Michael

    So… The Zeen that comes with the Zeus printer doesn’t run Android? News falsh: It does…

  • Anonymous

    So the new printer/tablet coming out next week with an Android based tablet is “abandoning” android? How so?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7K5WQD3NBMVE7TPNSF7AK56OBI Michael

    If you want proof, here it is: http://www.engadget.com/2010/0.....ered-zeus/

  • Anonymous

    [sound of head banging slowly on desk]

  • http://twitter.com/4phun Our World

    Who cares if HP put Android on one of its printers. This news story should be a waning that if any one plans to buy one he is going to get a product HP will not support for long.

    It probably was too far along in the food chain to dump so HP is selling what it produced.

  • Anonymous

    Yep. I’ve updated the post.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000102680446 Rod Penzca

    Good. The last thing the world needs is anymore android products.

  • http://en-gb.facebook.com/siliconglen Craig Cockburn

    HP, via Compaq, bought Digital. Digital, the once successful company that thought there was no market for PCs. Is the same person still lingering at HP in the Stupid Department?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U2H7S4MG6PLQUVOA2CFNMZ2QUQ Ric Desan

    HP is finding new and interesting ways to march toward irrelevancy! Like anyone is going to want to buy these Web OS based products. Very little support and the way HP drags their heels on getting it to market, Joe consumer is going to go” Palm Who?’

  • Anonymous

    That tablet/printer hybrid is the weirdest tech product of the year (I’d say “of the century”, but that’s already locked up by the Sony Rolly). Apart from the completely strange functional pairing, the fact that it’s an Android tablet coming from a company that has officially admitted it is ditching Android. Add that to the miserable-looking leaks of the Windows 7 slate, and geez HP, get your act together already.