Windows Phone Thoughts: HTC To Build UMPCs?

"The company which relies on producing Windows Mobile based smartphones for the productivity market is facing increasing pressure from an influx of well funded companies like Gigabyte and Asustek, which are producing increasingly competitive devices. Now that Chou's vision of putting wireless into palm-sized devices has become commonplace, HTC has its sights set on the next big thing — filling in the market between phones and laptops."

Wow, that's a heck of a direction for HTC to go into. With the UMPC market starting to heat up with a lot of new devices, HTC may be taking on more than it's bargained for - the UMPC space is as competitive, if not more so, than Windows Mobile. On the other hand, if they can bring their acknowledged R&D prowess to come up with viable devices with the kind of communications channels that are present in today's WM phones AND make them affordable (*cough* DualCor *cough*), we're all the better for it. This is a development I'm going to be watching with a lot of interest.