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Touchdroid: Android for the HP Touchpad Project

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Sorry guys but I just don't see the point. The issue with the Touchpad was the hardware, not the OS. A Touchpad with Android installed is a pretty poor prospect, frankly there are better Android tablets out there.

I'm buying a Touchpad because I love webOS, otherwise I would just go out and buy a Samsung or whatever with Honeycomb and much better hardware than the Touchpad.

The Touchpad's hardware was GREAT! 1.2ghz DUAL CORE Snapdragon S3... you can't get much better than that, and the processor blows Tegra 2's out of the water. 1GB of RAM is standard, so I think you either do not know the Touchpad's hardware, or you you don't like one of the best mobile SoCs on the market now.

If people want to spend their time porting Android to Touchpad, then good luck to them. My point was that webOS is the best thing about the Touchpad, not the hardware (except maybe the Beats Audio speaker system), so why would I replace the best thing about my new tablet with Android? I'll say it again: if I wanted an Android tablet, I'd go buy a Samsung. webOS will remain on my Touchpad so I don't see the point of this project.

I haven't used webOS on a phone, but on my TouchPad, the OS is quite buggy.

I think this project is more the people like me who now have an orphaned devise. I wouldn't suggest buying a TouchPad just to put Android on it unless you are picking one up for $99 and like to tinker.

Have you upgraded the OS on the Touchpad? I heard the most recent version resolves many problems.

Can somebody explain the logic of porting Gingerbread first instead of starting with Honeycomb? I thought Google created Honeycomb as the tablet OS because Gingerbread didn't live up to certain tablet capabilities.

Is it easier to port Gingerbread for some reason?

They Honeycomb source code has not been released, so it is much more difficult to modify parts of Android so it would work on the different hardware the Touchpad has

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