<\/span><\/h2>\nWho owns HP?<\/strong> Nobody single. HP Inc is a publicly traded company, independent since the 2015 split from the old Hewlett-Packard.<\/p>\nIs HP the same as HPE?<\/strong> No. HP Inc makes PCs and printers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise makes data-centre servers and networking. Two separate companies since November 2015.<\/p>\nWhat replaced the HP Spectre?<\/strong> The OmniBook, specifically its top Ultra tier. HP retired the Spectre name in 2024.<\/p>\nDoes HP make phones?<\/strong> Not in most markets today. HP’s device focus is laptops, desktops, printers, gaming, and meeting-room gear.<\/p>\n<\/span>The takeaway<\/span><\/h2>\nIf you are shopping HP in 2026, get one thing straight before anything else: which family you actually want. OmniBook is the home line, EliteBook is the work line, and you can ignore the old Spectre and Pavilion names completely because they are gone. After that, remember HP is really five businesses under one logo, computers, printers, gaming through HyperX and Omen, meetings through Poly, and security through Wolf. Hold that map in your head and you will not overpay for the wrong tier, or accidentally end up reading about an HPE server when all you wanted was a laptop.<\/p>\n
About this article.<\/strong> Written and fact-checked by the Brandligo editorial desk. AI tooling was used to gather and cross-check sources; every fact and figure here was verified against the primary sources linked above before publication, including HP’s own newsroom and press releases. Published August 12, 2026. If you spot something out of date, tell us at info@brandligo.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HP makes a lot more than printers. In 2026 it builds laptops, desktops, gaming gear, video-meeting hardware, mobile workstations, and the security software that runs on top of all of it. If the only HP product in your house is an inkjet that nags you about low ink, that is a very old picture of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":38743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38744,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742\/revisions\/38744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}