McGuire’s Law

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now
• Lets Understand Phones: Market is Shifting from Dumbphones to Smartphones
• What does a Nokisoft smartphone look like before it is born?
• Tablets are threat to Smartphones and Netbooks, analyzes Frost and Sullivan
• With 24% Share of Smartphones, Android Will Outshine “Nokisoft”
• Smartphones Top US Consumer Electronics Purchase Plans for 2011
• The “Cool Factor” No Longer Driving Handset Sales – Form and Function Winning
• Kyocera Shows Off Dual-Screen Android Smartphone
• Apple retakes World’s Biggest Computer Maker Crown after 3 decades – with power of iPhone, iPad and Touch
• Smartphone Bloodbath 2010: Now Final Numbers Q4 and Full Year 2010 – and each rival awarded their final grades
• Nokia Autopsy on MeeGo – One last look back, Before we look forward on the New Nokia
• Noki-Soft Windfall – who wins most when Micro-Kia hand away lucrative smartphone empire bigger than Blackberry, bigger than iPhone

This week, HP finally introduced some interesting new products based on the WebOS platform that came from the Palm acquisition. The company is certainly being aggressive, taking the platform in a number of different, and even surprising, directions.

I want to thank all of you who have e-mailed me encouraging Sprint to commit to the WebOS platform and asking whether we were going to have any of these new devices on our network. (Thanks Tom. :))

As I’ve said here many times, any Sprint employee sharing information on unreleased devices is subject to termination, and I enjoy working at Sprint, so even if I knew details of Sprint’s plans for upcoming devices, I wouldn’t share those plans.

However, I can say that Sprint values the long relationship it has had with Palm (now HP) and you can be sure that we will continue to discuss with HP/Palm the types of devices we’d like to see on our network and to evaluate the new devices HP brings to the table.

I also can say that we certainly expect to see the new WiFi-enabled WebOS devices on our network thanks to the great MiFi and Overdrive products that we already have in our portfolio, as well as the Hotspot feature available in an increasing number of our handsets. For those that love WebOS, I encourage you to consider HP’s new products paired with the great 4G experience that Sprint can deliver today through these hotspot capabilities.