HP announces move to become more aggressive about mobile

HP has announced a move which should see it become a great deal more aggressive about mobile handheld devices and mobile technology in general. And it looks like they will make the iPaq more of a hand-held and phone. Which would be handy for the hand-held only market is shrinking fast.

HP has announced that they will separate their portable device business from their notebook computer operations to benefit from the growth of devices that allow consumers to make phone calls and check email.

And they have appointed David Rothschild, a former executive at rival Sun Microsystems and also Pixo and Netscape, to lead the hand-held business.

Poor old RIM. It looks like everyone has decided to take a pop at them. But then with 600M corporate email users out there, you can't exactly blame them. And with HP's experience in enterprise sales and their popular hand-held device - they have a good start.

I just wonder whether they will ever really make a dent on the Nokia's of this world.