HTC could be the latest manufacturer to offer a Chromebook. According to Digitimes, the company is considering building “Internet-access devices” that fall somewhere between tablets and netbooks. They would run both Chrome OS and Android.
Both Acer and Samsung currently offer Chromebooks and sales appear to be quite poor so far. Digitimes expects total sales to reach only 25,000 to 30,000 units by the end of the year. Could HTC have something up its sleeve to give this market a short in the arm?
HTC has taken some gambles with some products in the past. Do you remember the HTC Shift, the 7-inch slate running Vista with slide-out keyboard? Could HTC resurrect it with upgraded hardware and Chrome and Android as its operating systems? Perhaps we will see a few new gambles from the manufacturer especially as it promised to try to stand out from the crowd in 2012.