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Android On HP TouchPad

Posted by timothy on from the wish-I'd-been-quicker-on-the-draw dept.

NicknamesAreStupid writes "As fast as you can say '$99 blowout sale,' PC World reports on an Android port to the now defunct HP TouchPad. 'Of course, it will turn out to be the best Android pad ever, making the iPad stink by comparison,' reports Muphy's Law Reports."

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  1. "No ecosystem" by EponymousCustard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    HP have inadvertently discovered how to create huge demand and massive customer base overnight: find the right price point and lots of publicity

  2. Terrible article. Terrible summary. by HumanEmulator · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The "summary" makes it sound like a port is available now, and then throws in an iPad comparison that's nowhere in the original article. From TFA:

    "Figure this will take a good long while. Keep your expectations very low and for now enjoy WebOS..."

    and my favorite...

    "Further complicating the initiative, some of the developers don't yet have TouchPads."

    So this is 3 guys planning a porting effort of an older version of Android. (Google hasn't released the source code to Honeycomb yet.) Also from TFA:

    "Still, people who bought it took a risk, since it's not clear if HP will continue to develop the operating system."

    Really, that's not clear? You think HP might be planning major OS updates for a tablet they just fire-saled?