Is the mobile front slowing down?

Last week, The Wall Street Journal hosted its first All Things Digital: Dive into Mobile event. And, while there was not a lot of ‘news’ revealed at the conference, we enjoyed hearing the latest thoughts from Jon Rubenstein, head of HP’s Palm unit. Among the new areas that HP will be focusing on in 2011 are the tablet market and the ongoing evolution of webOS 2.0, just some of the reasons behind HP’s purchase of Palm. Interested in a glimpse of the discussion? Check out some of our favorite parts of Ina Fried’s Mobilized interview below:

Rubenstein on webOS scaling:

“We were clearly very interested in enterprise, but it wasn’t on as fast a track as we are now. We already had a variety of enterprise capabilities. webOS 2.0 has got VPN and other enterprise-class features. But we’re significantly accelerating our enterprise capabilities so we can utilize HP’s huge sales channel in the enterprise”

Rubenstein on next-generation of products:

“We’re big believers that the more bandwidth the better. I am very excited to get to LTE and HSDPA+ [two faster cellular networks]. We have some really interesting visions on where webOS can go as you get more and more bandwidth…More and more bandwidth will enable more and more things that today we cannot even imagine. And remember, we designed webOS to integrate tightly with the cloud. My personal view is that it’s not about applications. Applications actually [will] bifurcate to where part of them runs on the device and part of them runs on the cloud.”

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