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Not even a full two months after launching the TouchPad, HP announces that they are discontinuing both it’s webOS tablet and smartphone operations. I think that Microsoft killed the Kin a wee bit faster than the did HP webOS, but, something tells me that MS didn’t put $1.2 billion into developing the Kin.
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Well, we knew someone was going to acquire Palm at a basement bargain price. I hoped that it would be RIM, thought that it would be HTC or Lenovo, but, it looks like the spoils are going to HP.
Yesterday at WES during their keynote, HP offered a glimpse into a new mobile social networking application that they are working on called Friendlee for BlackBerry. The didn’t offer a lot of details, however, Friendlee for BlackBerry appears to be a “Linked In” style service that automatically populates your friends list by detecting your contacts that you interact most frequently with.
It doesn’t look too far along, since they didn’t do much other than copy and paste an Android screenshot onto a Storm, but they were confident enough to show it at the biggest BlackBerry show of the year, so I’m sure it’s on the way. In the long run, HP is trying to reimagine the address book so instead of chewing through a list of rarely-used contacts, you’ll be focusing on the few people you talk to on a daily basis. Take a look at HP’s research on the app for a closer look.
[Via IntoMobile]