Will HTC follow the lead of fellow handset maker Nokia and dive into the netbook market? Definitely maybe, at least according to James Kendrick of jkOnTheRun.

At the HD2 launch this week, CEO Peter Chou let slip that the company is “carefully looking into [the netbook] category and how it can be part of that.”

Question is, what lessons did the handset maker learn from it’s cool-on-paper but underwhelming HTC Shift? Also, will its Android love turn into hardware for Chrome OS?

The mind boggles…