It’s been almost 8 years since HP launched the HP TouchPad tablet for $499, saw how poorly it was selling and then quickly marked it down to $99 and sold off remaining inventory in a fire sale… prompting bargain hunters to snatch them up and start tinkering with them. Since then, a small group of […]
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Now you can run Android 7.0 on the HP TouchPad
More than five years after HP discontinued its TouchPad tablet, the ROM building community continues to release new software for the 9.7 inch tablet. Want to take Android 7.0 Nougat for a spin on the TouchPad? Now there’s a ROM for that. Note that while Evervolv 7.0 for the HP TouchPad is the first Nougat-based […]
Android 6.0 comes to the HP TouchPad (unofficially)
It’s been years since HP has released an official software update for the long-discontinued HP TouchPad tablet. But independent developers have been keeping the tablet up to date by porting various versions of Google Android run on the tablet for ages. Now it’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow’s turn. Developer Flintman has released an alpha build of Evervolv based […]
HP TouchPad gets Android 5.0 Lollipop (unofficially)
HP’s long-discontinued webOSÂ tablet continues to find new life as an Android device. The company launched the HP TouchPad in 2011 and discontinued the tablet just two months later due to disappointing sales. But when the company slashed prices and sold off its remaining tablets for as little as $99, HP managed to sell millions of […]
Android 4.4 KitKat for the Google Nexus One (custom ROM)
Google launched the first Nexus smartphone in the first half of 2010. The HTC Nexus One was well built, had one of the fastest mobile processors available at the time, and showed Google’s vision for what an Android smartphone should be at the time. More than three years later, the Google Nexus One hardware looks […]
HP TouchPad gets Android 4.4 KitKat (unofficially)
HP may be pushing new inexpensive Android and Windows tablets, but the HP TouchPad tablet the company launched 2 years ago continues to have staying power — even though HP discontinued the tablet just a few months after it hit the streets. The HP TouchPad is a 9.7 inch tablet with a dual-core processor, 1GB […]