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"HP plans to switch to Android for its upcoming smartphones and tablets, ReadWrite Mobile reports citing sources familiar with the matter. \nAccording to the report, HP will launch a high-end tablet powered by Nvidia's Tegra 4 chip \"soon,\" which might make the device one of the first Tegra 4-powered tablets on the market. The company is also reportedly considering launching an Android-powered smartphone, though HP CEO Meg Whitman said the company has no plan to launch a smartphone in 2013. \nIf true, this would be a big shift in strategy for the once mighty PC maker, whose acquisition of Palm and its webOS platform in 2010 turned out to be a failure. After the webOS-based TouchPad tablet tanked, HP's tablet-related plans were unclear at best. \nIn fact, HP at one point even considered abandoning its bread and butter \u2014 the PC business. HP dropped that plan, but still seems out of step with the mainstream computing business, which has made a radical shift to mobile computing. Can HP regain some of that market with Android-based smartphones and tablets? We're not sure, but the company has to do something if it wants to stay relevant. \nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, AnthonyRosenberg"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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