Want to run Android apps on an HP TouchPad tablet, but don’t want to actually go so far as to install Android? The folks at Phoenix International Communications have been working on porting OpenMobile’s Application Compatibility Layer (ACL) to the platform so that you can run Android apps without leaving webOS. To finish the work, the team took to Kickstarter…
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HP discontinued the HP TouchPad tablet nearly two years ago — just a few months after launching the 9.7 inch tablet running webOS software. The company also stopped making webOS hardware and started the process of converting webOS to an open source project and eventually selling it to LG for use on televisions. While that means webOS isn’t exactly a…
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Almost two years after the HP TouchPad tablet was released (and promptly canceled), the aging 9.7 inch tablet continues to learn new tricks. The latest? You can now run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on HP’s discontinued tablet. Developer SGA has started releasing test builds of CyanogenMod 10.1 for the HP TouchPad. Update: Now there are other builds of Android 4.2.2…
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After dabbling in the tablet space with Windows and ill-fated webOS models over the past few years, HP is launching its first Android tablet. The HP Slate 7 is a 7 inch tablet which packs mediocre specs and a low price… perhaps HP learned something when the $499 HP TouchPad sold poorly only until the company discontinued the product and…
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It’s tough to stand out in the crowded Android phone and tablet space — which is why HP went a different route when it bought Palm a few years ago and started cranking out webOS phones and tablets. That didn’t end well. More recently the company has put its efforts into Windows-based tablets like the HP Envy X2. But it…
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The HP TouchPad is the discontinued tablet that keeps on ticking. While the tablet originally shipped with the webOS operating system, hackers have been installing Android on it for ages – and there hasn’t been an open source version of Android that couldn’t run on the TouchPad. Now Team codefireX developer Patrick Campanele is working to port the latest version…
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It’s been a few months since developer Dorregaray released the first custom builds of Android for the HP TouchPad with support for the 9.7 inch tablet’s front-facing camera. Now the camera patch has been incorporated into a number of different versions of Android for the tablet, including a custom build of CyanogenMod 10 (based on Android 4.1) and the official…
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The HP TouchPad tablet features a 9.7 inch screen, a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and 1GB of RAM. While HP discontinued the tablet just a few months after launching in in 2011, there are a few million of the tablets in the wild… and owners keep finding new and interesting things to do with them. Xda-developers forum member mpgrimm2…
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Developer jcsullins has updated his unofficial build of CyanogenMod 10 for the HP TouchPad. The software brings Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to HP’s discontinued 9.7 inch tablet. We’ve seen that before — but the latest build adds support for audio. Hardware video decoding also seems to be working. I had no problems streaming HD videos from YouTube and Netflix. This…
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It’s been more than a year since HP discontinued the first and only webOS tablet, and hackers have been running Google Android on the HP TouchPad for almost as long. Since then we’ve seen every major version of Android ported to run on HP’s hardware. But there’s always been one problem: Nobody’s managed to get the front-facing camera on the…
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The HP TouchPad may have been discontinued a year ago, but this old tablet can still new learn new tricks. Not only have we seen every major version of Android ported to run on the TouchPad, but now the folks at webOS Ports have also released software that brings new tricks to the original webOS operating system. In June HP…
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The HP TouchPad may not have had much success as a webOS tablet, but it’s turning out to be a very versatile Android tablet. It’s been about a year since HP discontinued the TouchPad, started selling off remaining inventory for as little as $99, and hackers started figuring out how to run Android on the 9.7 inch tablet. Since then…
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There’s good news and bad news on the HP Open webOS front today. HP is moving to create a new open source version of the operating system that currently powers its discontinued smartphones and tablets such as the HP TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer smartphones. Today the company released the Luna System Manager and core apps including email, contacts,…
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The HP TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer phones were the last devices to ship with HP’s webOS software. So when HP canceled those products last year, it’s no surprise that the pace of development for webOS slowed to a crawl. Sure, HP released a couple of software patches, and a handful of developers released some new apps — many…
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Now that HP has released the source code for webOS Community Edition, developers are starting to modify the operating system to meet their needs. One of the first hacks actually comes from Dave Freeman, a developer at HP Palm. He’s managed to change the way you switch between currently running apps. You can still swipe up from the bottom of…
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