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HP Slate 8: HP goes back to make tablets, now for Windows 8

HP Slate 8 – HP will again produce tablets, so the company has announced. The new tablet HP Slate 8 running on Windows 8. The failed experiment with WebOS tablet HP tries to forget quickly.

Recently leaked already have a picture of a prototype tablet for the business market. HP got last year at random from the tablet market and knisperverse tablets HP TouchPad on the operating system WebOS sale prices were placed in the window. The reason given was that the devices were hardly sold, after the sudden afprijzing also much improved. Now HP says to find that the tablet market is quite interesting, and a production line for consumers tablets on Windows 8 starts.

Vice President Todd Bradley of HP in the Chicago Tribune reports that the Windows 8-HP tablets are delivered with a kind of cloud service added, allowing users to their content on the tablet back and forth with other devices can share.

HP as a company is waiting for more changes. Thus, the PC and printer divisions merged and probably in Thailand for $ 100 million plant built a new printer. The future will probably be tablets in existing plants produced in China. HP Slate 8

HP TouchPad: lots of ROM and tutorials on hdblog forum!

You know, this is not necessarily wrong, what is said about the HP TouchPad: today is a tablet that was the cheapest on the market, albeit for a limited time, and remains one of the best bars to play with Android. Its 4:3 aspect ratio is not common and will please many of you looking to find an ergonomic “iPad” and its opening is such that virtually all conceivable ROMs can be installed above. If you like tweaking your belongings, nothing better!

It is also true, however, that these operations may seem difficult at first sight and inaccessible to simple guy anyway. Never mind, we have several experts and other enthusiasts root flash on our forum, our first moderator who takes care of the contents of the HP TouchPad section. Yesterday for example, has posted a tutorial to install a theme to look Metro Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Similarly, you can find excellent ways to spend your beast under CyanogenMod 9, for example, the ROM’s most popular HP TouchPad.

If interested, please go to the summary of HP TouchPad tutorials, you certainly find plenty to occupy this long Sunday.

HP TouchPad: HP provides Android developers code CyanogenMod for it

HP, a company crazy enough to buy Palm, a company that gets rid of almost everything bought with Palm after the disaster of the Palm 3 and tablet HP TouchPad. But at the end of this race, HP gave joy to many compulsive shoppers, by selling the last units of HP TouchPad for a ridiculous price of $ 199.

The people who managed to get one of these HP TouchPad at this price, surely was to see a tablet of similar features at such a price, because its future development was rather dead, but for a group of developers in CyanogenMod, who managed to carry this popular version of Android and HP TouchPad.

HP TouchPad: a new sale, Android 4.0

HP TouchPad – Let’s avoid making more news on a tablet died prematurely, now owned by a thin slice of the population has the right place at the right time: instead, a nice summary post that should delight many. Start with the first news that comes directly from HP: the company announced it would call into sales Touchpad 16 and 32 GB on eBay December 11 to 18h CST.

If my calculations are correct, the time of the CST is GMT-6, which brings us in at midnight GMT between 11 and 12 and a GMT, December 12 at 1am. You can go and check HP TouchPad on their eBay account if France is eligible for the offer, but know that they are reconditioned models, there will be only 2 units maximum per purchaser and the warranty is limited to 90 days. Prices, they will be those you know, plus any shipping from the United States.

HP TouchPad Go 7 inch is the cheap tablet if you’re rich

By cons, for the common man, the salt addition is: if you want a HP TouchPad Go 7 inches version ever marketed in the late HP Touchpad, you must pay about 700 dollars. The HP TouchPad Go 7 that appeared on eBay from China is a model of 32 GB with a 3G module: maybe is it that HP should have come out from the beginning, a tablet connected and innovative format, rather than multimedia tablet into the molten mass.

Blackberry PlayBook with discount in Canada

People often wonder if the PlayBook of RIM will be the next HP TouchPad and if the builder does not finish bring down the price, it is by no means arrived at a price of 99 a few symbolic things, which can crack almost anyone. In addition, discounts are often practiced in the motherland of RIM, Canada, where there is now PlayBook to 199 Canadian dollars. Know that by cons is still no email client on the machine.

HP now is considering selling WebOS

Reuters says it has four sources that ensure management considerations HP for selling their WebOS, would eventually decided after many rumors and speculation by those who think and still believe that the best solution considering the point is the software division that he once had relevance to Palm.

According to the alleged insider Reuters, HP is considering selling WebOS by hundreds of thousands of dollars, but considering it clear that he managed to get the 1.2 million that was invested when they decided to make the offer to HP Palm.

Honeycomb-like on an HP TouchPad? Thank you Team Xron

Now that Cyanogen has released the first version of the ROM to install on your HP TouchPad to turn it into Android tablet cheap, other teams are inspired by their work to offer turn custom Android ROMs. If you want a taste of Honeycomb and therefore, at least in appearance, more or less to Ice Cream Sandwich, this ROM by Team Xron you might be interested.

Note the Honeycomb is only an appearance on this ROM of HP TouchPad, since it is based, like Cyanogen, on Version 2 of Android. If the adventure tempts you, you will find a video tutorial for installation later in this entry on HP TouchPad.

Video tutorial installation for HP TouchPad

A HP TouchPad revives MeeGo as an undead necromancer?

I confess my title draws heavily from that of Lilliputing made​me laugh a lot, but admit that the situation is funny: after Android via Cyanogens, a video appeared on YouTube showing a HP TouchPad boot … Me eGo. A left abandoned on a shelf turning itself on a system abandoned: there are a lot of mise en abyme in this story, we will release an Xzibit Yo Dawg if it continues.

However, like all necromancers, the developer behind this feat is still in his first attempt, no, there is nothing after the logo MeeGo, at least, it is not shown on the video. If this results in cons, this proves that the HP TouchPad is able to accommodate other systems than Android or webOS. If the Linux Tablet thoughts – like the version of Ubuntu to come we told you about yesterday – find their way to it, this could be an excellent alternative to mainstream OS touch. To be continued. HP TouchPad

HP TouchPad: when there is more…

…This time there is more. HP has announced to retailers that the HP TouchPad was well and truly exhausted, the last units being parts inventory to reach the shelves and end at the latest customers who have fun with webOS, excellent system, or will eventually use their platform as a HP TouchPad to serve as an aperitif. If the tablet ends on Windows 8, elected officials have therefore been chosen.

Although, in fact, still, some sellers still the irresistible shenanigans around the hype generated by this tablet HP TouchPad: it remains such models 32 GB € 149 at Best Buy, United States, but only customers purchasing an HP also or Compaq will enjoy; yes, it’s a formula to pay more pay more.