Monday, March 26, 2012

HP TouchPad += Android 4.0

TouchPad is a nice device, even with WebOS.
The screen is the same as on iPad (1, 2), and performance is comparable.
The browser is WebKit based, support Flash... Very good for web browsing...
But there is a very small number of apps.

A solution: add Android OS, as dual-boot.
Since TouchPad is also based on Linux, it is possible to do it.
There are Alpha versions of Android 2.3, and 4.0.
Now, even HP is helping to make this work...


How to upgrade an HP TouchPad to Android Ice Cream Sandwich

by Scott Hanselman

TouchPad Android Kernel Source Code Released By HP » Geeky Gadgets


HP has... decided to release the (WebOS Linux) kernel,
together with other software they developed back in 2011.


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