Jeremy C. Owens for Mercurynews.com:

Hewlett-Packard is working on a new smartphone as its core personal computers and printer businesses faces growing challenges, CEO Meg Whitman said in an interview Friday morning.

Of course, it wasn’t too long before Whitman stepped into the CEO role at HP that the company killed off its Palm division, which was making a smartphone.

Whitman stopped short of offering details; Owens opines that the “new Windows Mobile” is a possibility, or maybe Android. What, no webOS?