Android on HP TouchPad hits snag

From CNET News.com: Android on the HP TouchPad has hit a bump as the TouchDroid team that was porting the Google operating system to the tablet has called it quits, according to a report and a post on a TouchDroid-related Web page.

Small-device enthusiast Web site Liliputing said today that the TouchDroid team has been "disbanded."

"This morning there were at least two teams of independent developers working to port Google's Android operating system to run on the HP TouchPad tablet--but there was pretty strong evidence that one of those teams was cribbing work from the other," Liliputing said. "This afternoon there's only one team left standing."

That team left standing is CyanogenMod, which appears to be taking over the port, according to a poster, who said that "the [TouchDroid] team began to break up and its trusted members are no longer actively working on a port for the HP TouchPad under this team." A reader forum at PreCentral has already generated a thread related to the disbanding of the TouchDroid team.

Why all the fuss? The interest stems from the fact that the TouchPad has become a very inexpensive vehicle for running the Google operating system. HP has been conducting a fire sale of the TouchPad at $100 and $150 for 16GB and 32GB models, respectively, in the wake of shuttering its WebOS device business.

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