HTC 'continues to assess' developing its own smartphone OS, Palm says 'hey, assess this'
By Chris Ziegler 
posted April 13th 2010 1:52PM
posted April 13th 2010 1:52PM
Failing a Palm acquisition, there might still be justification for HTC to build out its own software platform for many of the same reasons that buying Palm would make sense -- the company's getting bigger and more important to the market by the day, after all, and being left at the mercy of Google and Microsoft to produce cohesive platforms of their own might not sit well with Chou's team ad infinitum. The HTC Smart could be regarded as its first baby step toward that goal, though the handset -- based on Qualcomm's Brew MP platform -- is actually a featurephone that won't fly with the same kinds of consumers that are cross-shopping Android and Windows Phone products. To that end, Bloomberg says that HTC's CFO revealed in an interview that his company continues "to assess [developing its own smartphone operating system], but that requires a few conditions to justify." Naturally, he went on to clam up when nudged about the Palm sitch -- and he never got around to laying out what those "few conditions" were that would spur HTC to pull the trigger on any of this -- but it's starting to seem inevitable that this is all going to go down one way or another.
@Beatnik
Thats great except people ( like me) are looking forward to buying an HTC made WP7 phone ASAP. And while i'm amazed by the hardware of my phone , the sense UI isn't that great. I enjoy using my Zune HD much more than my Droid Eris , so its pretty safe to say i'll like WP7 more than any sense based UI , however good it may be.
@rocketsfan20 Rubbish. Giz will object when "Speak now or forever hold your peace" is said. Then turn off the chapel's PA system with a TV-B-Gone
"Assess this, the company costs more than iPhone cuz we STILL think we have a superior product! HARUMPH!!"
HTC are going to the next level. Buying Palm OS is their best option but building their own is not bad at all.
@John52 why don't you just get a pre or pixi when they drop on att next month? I mean if you REALLY love palm so much, I'd think you'd support the company...
Ohhhh silly palm i feel sorry for them it was an amazing phone just pricy but i know when the HTC Smart comes out.....
THE 10TH OF MAY = HTC SMART O2 DEBUT
HTC, please use MeeGo, so I can write Qt apps for the phone... We need another vendor to pick up the Intel/Nokia platform.