The HP TouchPad is kind of the tablet that won’t die… HP discontinued the tablet only two months after launching it last summer. But while the tablet didn’t sell very well at $499 and up, the TouchPad has had an amazing afterlife. HP slashed prices on the remaining units by up to 80 percent and sold millions of units… and…
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It’s been possible to install Google Android on the HP TouchPad tablet for months, thanks to the tools developed by members of the CyanogenMod team. But CyanogenMod isn’t the only version of Android that can run on HP’s 9.7 inc tablet. Over the past few months the folks behind the AOKP (Android Open Kang Project) have made a name for themselves by delivering highly customizable…
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Fallout is a classic role playing game from 1997. It was designed to run on Windows computers, but with a little elbow grease you can get the game to run on an Android tablet. In fact, RootzWiki Forum member RolandDeschain79 even managed to get the game up and running on an HP TouchPad running Google Android 4.0. The graphics are a…
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The HP TouchPad Go is a 7 inch tablet which never made it to market. It was a casualty of HP’s decision to kill off its webOS hardware division last summer, just two months after introducing the HP TouchPad 10 inch tablet and watching it flop (only to see it sell like hotcakes once the price was lowered from $499…
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The developers of the CyanogenMod version of Android are now offering nightly builds of the latest software for the HP TouchPad tablet. Every night a new version of Android 4.0 featuring the latest bug fixes and other improvements will be available for download from the CyanogenMod website — but it’s important to note that nightlies are experimental builds and each…
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HP has already committed to turning the webOS operating system that runs on smartphones and tablets into open source software. But initially the goal was for future versions of webOS to be community-focused software. Now HP has announced plans to release additional parts of webOS 3.0.5 as open source software, which should allow independent developers to further tweak the software that’s…
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The HP TouchPad is a pretty decent tablet with a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display, a fast 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB to 32GB of storage. It may not have sold very well when HP tried to charge $499 and up for the tablet, but when the company discontinued the TouchPad…
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The HP TouchPad is capable of running a number of different operating systems. It ships with HP webOS software, but we’ve also seen Google Android and a number of Linux-based operating systems ported to run on the 9.7 inch tablet. But you don’t have to pick just one operating system and stick with it. You can create a multi-boot setup…
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One of the reasons the HP TouchPad became so popular (after HP discontinued the tablet and slashed the price by 80 percent) is because the tablet can be hacked to run Google Android in addition to the webOS software it ships with. But what if you could run Android apps from webOS without rebooting your device at all? Eventually you may…
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The bad news for the handful of webOS enthusiasts still out there is that HP has eliminated 270 jobs in its webOS division. The good news is that the company still has more than 200 people working on the operating system — even though HP eliminated all of its webOS hardware last year and started the process of making the…
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The HP TouchPad may not be available for $99 anymore, but you can still pick up this 9.7 inch webOS tablet for a reasonably good price from time to time. Today Newegg is offering deals on refurbished 16GB and 32GB TouchPads with prices starting at $225. That’s not a bad price for a tablet with a 1.2 GHz dual core…
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Less than a day after releasing the first version of Android 4.0 for the HP TouchPad with support for hardware video acceleration, the CyanogenMod team has released a second update — this time with support for streaming Netflix video. If you’re keeping track, that means that Android on the HP TouchPad now supports touch, WiFi, audio, video, and the Google…
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