Samsung says it will not adopt HP's WebOS

Samsung has poured cold water on speculation that it might pick up WebOS from HP, which said in August that it was cancelling hardware products such as the TouchPad tablet that are based on the mobile operating system.

When HP said it was scrapping the TouchPad and the Pre line of smartphones, the company said it was considering "how best to optimise the value" of the software, which HP picked up when it bought Palm in 2010. The news was met with analyst speculation that a handset maker, possibly Samsung, may adopt WebOS.

According to a Bloomberg report on Friday, Samsung is not biting. Samsung chief executive Choi Gee Sung said the Korean electronics giant would "never" pursue such a deal, the report stated.

Samsung has already invested heavily in three mobile platforms. It is one of the leading manufacturers of phones using Google's Android mobile OS, it makes Windows Phones, and it also already has its own operating system, Bada.

Bada is aimed at a variety of devices, ranging from low-end handsets to top-of-the-line smartphones. Samsung unveiled the Wave 3, which runs the new Bada 2.0, at the IFA technology show in Berlin last week, and also used the show to say it wanted to make the OS "one of the top mobile platforms in the industry".