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.
Looks like we’ll have to rely on the efforts of the Cyanogenmod crew for stable Android on TouchPad, with the TouchDroid team having closed its doors. Before it was shuttered, though, the team did release video and walkthrough information for getting rather unstable Android running on TouchPad. You know. For if you’re really keen.
Leaving aside patent issues, Android tablets are struggling to make a real dent in the iPad’s armour. How can Android succeed in the wider market?
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.
