HP TouchPad running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (CM9) video tour



MobileBurn.com - The HP TouchPad may have left the factory running webOS, but that hasn't stopped developers from shoe-horning Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich onto it. The Cyanogen Mod team has been hard at work getting a version of Android 4.0 working on the TouchPad, and, for the most part, they have been successful. Though important things like the camera, microphone, and hardware-accelerated video (read: no Netflix or HD video playback) are not yet working, most everything else is, and if you use your tablet to read, browse the web, and handle email as I do, then Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich CM9 Alpha 6 certainly works well for that. Performance is quite impressive, even better than many of the official Android 3.x Honeycomb tablets that I have used. Apps open swiftly and panning around the homescreens has virtually no lag. Installing CM9 on the TouchPad might not be for the faint of heart, but if you have installed a custom ROM on an Android smartphone in the past, its certainly something that you can probably handle. More info: http://www.mobileburn.com/cell_phone_archive.jsp?OSes=35&Label=Android+OS...