Despite the fact that HP never intended for the TouchPad to ship with Android a few devices did leak out with Google’s open source platform pre-installed. We were never given the details on why exactly this happened but it seems that HP is finally coming clean today releasing the TouchPad’s official Android kernel. This has [...]

HP’s TouchPad may have seen virtually no hype when originally hitting the market but once it was dropped to a starting price of just $99.99 it became one of the best selling tablets on the market. While some consumers were satisfied with HP’s webOS (which recently went open source) many purchased the tablet in hopes [...]

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: despite being killed off by HP, the TouchPad just refuses to die. Following the announcement that HP’s webOS division would see its demise the TouchPad had its price tag cut to $99.99 for the 16GB model to sell off remaining stock. This sparked a firestorm of [...]

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS have largely dominated the smartphone market pretty much ever since they launched. Due to the massive amount of community support behind these platforms its been very hard for competitors to break into the market. A prime example of this would be HP’s webOS which has been critically acclaimed ever since it was [...]

When originally announced consumers anxiously awaited the HP TouchPad due to it being webOS’ first appearance on the tablet form factor. However, once it was actually released a bare app line up coupled with a poor user experience led to poor sales and disappointed hopefuls. In lieu of this HP announced that they would kill off their webOS hardware division [...]

If you’ve been paying attention you’ll be well aware that HP killed off their webOS hardware division earlier this year. This included the HP TouchPad which was on the market for less than half a year before meetings its demise. But things weren’t all bad as with the killing of the webOS hardware division brought [...]

HP has long been one of the world’s premiere computer manufacturers with many different laptop and desktop offerings. They also dipped their foot into the ultra-portable market with the purchase of Palm producing devices such as the HP Pre 3 and the HP TouchPad. While we’ll save the Pre 3 for another story you may [...]

HP’s TouchPad may not be in the news as much as it previously was but it still getting some attention. Much of this attention is from the Android community due to a recent porting of CynaogenMod7 to the tablet after quite a long period of anticipation. However, HP isn’t neglecting the tablet either just yet as today [...]

While the HP TouchPad was never the most highly sought after device on the market it did gain some appeal from those who wanted to see webOS running on a tablet. However, when HP announced that they would be cutting the price tag down to just $99 consuemrs far and wide began seeking the tablet [...]

HP’s TouchPad had a tough life and was never really as appreciated as it should have been. Many consumers were anxiously awaiting the device as it was webOS’ first attempt at a tablet only to find that the experience was quite lack luster. To be fair, many have attributed this experience to the hardware and [...]