CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 2 now available for the HP TouchPad

The CyanogenMod team has released a second alpha version of Android for the HP TouchPad tablet. Alpha 1 was released less than a week ago, and it was pretty functional — but included a number of bugs that could cause the tablet to crash, the WiFi to disconnect, or other problems. Alpha 2 is still rough around the edges, but it includes a number of new...

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HP releases webOS 3.04 for the HP TouchPad (with new camera app)

HP may not be selling very many HP TouchPad tablets anymore, but there are somewhere around a million of the discontinued devices in the wild and it looks like HP’s webOS team hasn’t forgotten about us just yet. The company has just released a software update for the TouchPad which brings performance improvements and a few new features. Among other things, webOS...

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Cyanogenmod 7.1 Touchpad Android App Recommendations

I made the leap and installed Cyanogenmod 7.1 on my HP Touchpad.  It's so nice to have my Android apps back. The Android Market fix didn't work for me to install Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps and others from the Android Market. My Thoughts The apps don't seem quite as polished as WebOS apps.  It looks like some of them just took the phone app and enlarged...

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How to install Google Android on the HP TouchPad (with CyanogenMod7)

The CyanogenMod team has released the first public build of Google Android for the HP TouchPad tablet. Right now the software is still in the alpha phase, which means that not everything works as it should. There are still bugs with the accelerometer, Bluetooth, camera, and other functions, for instance. But for the most part, the operating system is now up and...

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