It looks like everyone’s favorite selling tablet, thanks to its ridiculous price drop, is surely going the way of the Nook Color in that no one ever gave it a second glance as a worthy contender in the “cheap but effective as hell” tablet market. The HP TouchPad has certainly come a long way since its first inception as a possible Android powered tablet. We’ve also recently seen the device running the latest version of Gingerbread 2.3.5 thanks to Team TouchDroid’s blood, sweat and tears. However, the real credit goes to the folks over at the CyanogenMod team, as its original code generators.
The CM7 team states that everything is running on the device smoothly with the exception of WiFi. Now we know that’s big, but if you can remain patient, it’s only a matter of time until that issue is resolved as well. Then you’ll have a cheap as hell Android tablet running one of the most respected ROM’s on the platform today. Once the build is final, you should have no problem sporting this little guy as your daily tablet driver. Check out the video after the break of the team’s progress and don’t forget to let us know what you think in the comments below. Were you one of the lucky users able to get your hands on the device for a mere $99 bucks?
From their release thread:
-Where is the download link?
There isn’t one and there won’t be one for some time. Our primary motivation is a properly working Android port, not collecting a bounty.-What is working as of now?
We are currently building the kernel and CM7 from source and able to boot on the Touchpad. ADB and USB Android gadget is working. We are also able to boot CM7 from LVM which will allow us to easily dual boot WebOS and Android in the future.
-Working:
-Android USB gadget with adb
-LVM in Android
-Touchscreen with multitouch
-gfx acceleration
-proper pixel format(color).-What doesn’t work?
Wifi does not work. Most devices secondary to the SoC(CPU, GPU, etc) have not been tested yet.
[via briefmobile]