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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

    1. Re:"No ecosystem" by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      And being a guy who paid ipad prices for a real android tablet with the horsepower to run the apps smoothly, I still bought an iPad.

      Why?

      it's the apps man.

      I can't get an app that will show me where the satellites are in the sky in a Augmented reality like I can on the iPad.
      I can't get an integration app for Microsoft One Note on android.
      I can't get a PDF annotation app that is as smooth and simple as the one for the iPad.
      Only recently was I able to get an autocad viewer for android. but not an andriod honeycomb native, it's a phone app that scales.
      And on and on.

      Android falls on it's face with tablet specific apps simply because it has been around a short time compared to the iPad. Maybe in 2 years when the application base builds up I'll look at what android tablets are doing once more, but then I'll have to abandon all the software I bought for the iPad and re-buy all my software again.

      the XOOM tablet is a nice piece of hardware and snappy... but it failed on the app front. I was lucky enough to have bought it early and chose to sell it early to get most of my money back on ebay.

      I use a tablet for work. both my day job and my side photography business... and the iPad kicks android hard in the photography apps arena.

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  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?

  3. Re:Logical contradiction by sootman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can you name one 10" tablet currently on the market that has the same battery life (or better) than the iPad 2? Is it also as thin (or thinner), as light (or lighter), and the same price (or cheaper) than the iPad 2?

    "Pretentious prick", indeed.

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