With HP Veer out in the wild and the HP TouchPad on the horizon, HP is hard at work on its next generation of webOS tablets and phones and the rumours are starting to leak out. And they revolve around an ever more familiar term – NFC.
Businessweek claims two sources have told it that the next generation of webOS devices will follow in the footsteps of the Google Nexus S and Google Wallet by adding NFC. It claims we could see the new devices before the end of this year…
HP apparently plans to create an entire ecosystem for users to receive coupons and other rewards directly from NFC-enabled ads. Quite how it will encourage retailers to sign up to its plans with Google Wallet vying for attention and Apple heavily rumoured to be working on iPhone 5 NFC plans is unclear.
As with most of the NFC rumours doing the rounds, the problem for HP is getting all the partners together it would need to make such a system work. Google has the clout to make a stir and Apple clearly has a platform thanks to the App Store, iPad and iPhone. WebOS doesn’t quite have that clout right now.
Out TBC | £TBC | HP (via Businessweek)
