The HP Touchpad stole the hearts of thousands when it went on sale for just $99 and since then has proven itself as a legitimate Android tablet. The once WebOS-touting slab has been given a new lease on life as developers have released an early preview of Cyanogenmod 10. Currently, the build is in an Alpha stage, meaning some things aren’t working…. Read more
An interesting piece of mobile software news this morning as The Verge reported late last night that the newly open-sourced Enyo team is moving from HP to Google. If you’re not familiar with Enyo, it is the core HTML framework that made up the backbone of the HP TouchPad and was later made open-source when HP nixed the webOS line of products. More… Read more
During the fire sale of the TouchPad by HP, there was plenty of people who bought the tablet. It was only made more necessary for some people to own it because of Android, which was being put onto the dead device. Now that that effort has continued, and the support community has done their very best to make the Android experience on the tablet worthwhile,… Read more
The webOS-based TouchPad may have lost official support from HP, but that isn’t stopping the Android community. CyanogenMod 9 for the TouchPad has brought the latest Android version to the dead tablet, in the form of unstable alphas. All of this was done by the official CyanogenMod team, but other ROM developers are now stepping in. The latest alpha now… Read more
Remember hearing about a few of HP’s TouchPads shipping with Android instead of webOS? It turns out there was quite a bit more of a story to that, as it appears that HP had an internal team developing Android for the TouchPad all along. Out of the kindness of their hearts, HP has given that very Android kernel they developed to the CyanogenMod team. It also… Read more
Owners of the discontinued HP TouchPad have been patiently wait for an Android port of the latest Ice Cream Sandwich, and it shouldn’t be too much longer. A video has just been released of the tablet running CyanogenMod 9, and things are looking pretty polished. Almost everything is working, and is very smooth for a tablet that originally ran webOS. There… Read more
All owners of the HP TouchPad have been waiting patiently for an Ice Cream Sandwich port to their discontinued tablet. Some progress has been made however, as developer tigerdavid has successfully booted the new Android version onto his tablet. It isn’t what you’d expect though, as the UI immediately crashes. The touchscreen isn’t working either, so the… Read more
The HP TouchPad has seen some good Android development through Cyanogen Mod, but the developers at MIUI.us aren’t going to let them stand alone. HP’s dead tablet has received a MIUI port beta, creating another option for those who enjoy hacking and flashing ROMs. Most things appear to be working, excluding the on-screen menu, with a few various bugs. Also… Read more
Well the HP Touchpad’s path toward full membership in the Android club. With news of CyanogenMod 3.5 hitting the Touchpad scarcely hit the blogs and now, we get news that another favorite of the Android community, MIUI sends an alpha build to the HP Touchpad community. MIUI, for those that don’t know is a heavily skinned and modded ROM based on… Read more
While Samsung seems to perpetually be in the spotlight these days with new phones, tablets, and things-that-are-phones-AND-tablets, news hits the community of a surprising statistic from an unlikely champion, HP. Recent news of webOS’ demise and instability in the company really left most wondering where the computer manufacturer would go from here. Well,… Read more
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