HP’s Computer Division has been spared the guillotine, but webOS may not be as lucky. The Guardian is reporting today that HP may soon kill off the OS designed for the short-lived and now-dead TouchPad tablet. Well, that’s a $US1.2 billion investment down the tubes.
The HP Touchpad just jumped up a few notches on the tablet scale now that the first public release of CyanogenMod is available for download.
Snagged a HP Touchpad (or seven) during its $98 fire sale in August? Either you’ve come to terms with what webOS offers and its decidedly terminal fate, or, you’ve been hanging out for CyanogenMod to get Android onto the hardware. It looks like CM are getting closer to making this reality, judging by their latest video.
The journey to get Android running on the HP TouchPad has been a surprisingly swift one. Just yesterday we saw video of multitouch on Android, and now the Cyanogenmod crew have gone one better, getting sound, and multitouch working.
Efforts to make that $99 HP TouchPad you bought as a bargain that little bit more (optionally) functional continue apace; we’ve already seen a most-likely-fake video and the early efforts of the Cyanogenmod team, but the latest breakthrough promises multi-touch support for Android on TouchPad.
HP’s announced that it’ll resume a limited production run of TouchPads — most likely because it’d be less of a loss to finish off spare parts than to just dump them — but they’ll stay stateside only.
