A group of developers has started a project to Android porting it to the TouchPad of HP, which, by default, WebOS runs. The tablet flew the last days of the shop after HP decided a hefty price reduction.
HP announced just before the weekend a nice discount for the touch Pad, after the company announced to cease the production of tablets. The 16GB version got a price cut from $ 499 to $ 99, while the 32GB edition 149 euros was going to cost. By the price reduction did HP last weekend, an estimated 350.000 TouchPads to sell. In many online stores, the tablet is also sold out.
Now HP has decided to stop with the WebOS running TouchPad, five developers, the project Touch Droid started to the tablet in the first instance, on Android 2.3 to run. As soon as this is stable on the TouchPad is running, will the development team make the step to Android 3.0 Honeycomb. This version of Googles open-source OS is more suitable for tablets. With the help of the existing Palm-sdk can be a TouchPad-user roottoegang to his tablet.
