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HP May (Or May Not) Launch Two Big Smartphones By The End Of This Year

If the reports are to be believed, Hewlett-Packard is entering the consumer mobile-handset market, again.

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According to The Information, HP is planning to release new six- and seven-inch phones by the end of the year

The two rumored phablet-sized smartphones would be priced between $200 and $250 as off-contract, unlocked devices and could appear before the end of 2013, according to The Information.

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The tech site reported this week that HP CEO Meg Whitman is "taking another stab at the crowded mobile-phone industry as she tries to turn around the company."

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The rumored "affordable" smartphones for markets like China, India, and the Philippines are purportedly a 6-inch device and a 7-inch handset that would push the envelope on the line between phablets and full-blown tablets.

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The phones, for which no leaked or officially sanctioned images exist to our knowledge, are expected to be a 6-inch "phablet" and a 7-inch phablet

By "phablet" we mean either a huge phone or a small tablet.

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Details on these devices are pretty spare, but the assumption is that they would run Google's Android operating system and sport an ARM-based application processor.

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The only positive with HP is its relatively known brand name, which might lead to consumers to buy its phone over the unknown Chinese makers.

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HP earlier attempted to make a hold in the smartphone market after acquiring Palm in 2010

But the WebOS-based devices failed to catch on with consumers and eventually the company decided to pull the plug on its new tablet and smartphones in 2011.

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HP Palm Pre 3 phone

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