We already know that
HP has its sights on touchscreen technology as it re-invents its product portfolio over the next
18 16 months or so. HP has already demonstrated a flair for touchscreen PCs with its
TouchSmart desktops. It's now being reported by
The Wall Street Journal that HP plans to have a consumer oriented, touch-screen laptop (not just another
convertible tablet, apparently) ready by the end of the year according to the WSJ's ever omniscient "people familiar with the matter." HP's said to be getting help from the uber-boutique design-house,
Frog Design, to help develop the new software (which
certainly needs some tweaking) and hardware. Sources also claim that HP is on track to release a touch-screen cellphone into Europe (through US carriers sometime "next year or so") and new
10-inch netbook before the end of the year. Maybe then
HP can stop riding ASUS so hard, eh?
