HTC’s CEO Peter Chou has reignited conjecture which a association is scheming a little arrange of netbook. Chou apparently told reporters during a Taiwanese launch of a HTC HD2 which a association was “carefully seeking in to which difficulty as well as how it can be partial of that”; a criticism echoes a arch executive’s vague allusions to a inscription or MID character device when SlashGear talked to him during a HD2’s entrance in London final month.
Then, as now, Chou forked out which a association would wish to see something with genuine marketplace interest prior to jumping in to a segment. That, he tangible in Taiwan this week, would be a device with “unique value” rsther than than a “me-too” netbook such as we’ve seen flooding a marketplace over a past twelve to eighteen months.
Chou additionally reminded SlashGear which HTC have been not finish strangers to a thought of a incomparable wireless-enabled touchscreen device, with a HTC Shift in their behind catalog. We reviewed a Shift back in Jun 2008 as well as reckoned many users would be improved off with a apart smartphone as well as laptop, though experiments with Windows 7 showed a Shift gained a brand new franchise of hold up with a some-more fit OS.
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