Decreasing the price of HP TouchPad seemed to be the last gamble to save HP from it’s tablet manufacturing doom. However the gamble paid of really well as rumors of porting Android to TouchPad made many buyers spill out $ 99. There are several teams burning the midnight oil to get Android working on HP TouchPad and so far the Touch Droid group has managed to release some evidence of their success.
In one of the latest videos by Touch Droid team, WebOS and Android 2.3 Gingerbread are shown dual booting on TouchPad. Although the developers still have to work on making Android work glitch free on TouchPad, but this development seems to be a huge leap forward. The foremost task undertaken by Touch Droid team is to enable Touchscreen and hardware acceleration functionality on TouchPad running Android.
Here is the video for your viewing pleasure:
It is worth noticing that there is already a bounty of $ 2000 + on successful porting of Android on TouchPad and so far things are going in the right direction. Until now there is no ETA available but we believe that soon general public will be able to get Android running natively on their TouchPads. Dual booting on WebOS and Android also suggests that developers have managed to crack NAND of this device. There are speculations that TouchPad might become “HD2 of Tabs” integrating versatility and receiving more than just one OS port. We are keeping a keen eye on these developments and we will post tutorials on porting Android to HP TouchPad as soon as they are made available.
