HP TouchPad Flip-Flop - Shipped with Android, New Prices?

Android on TouchPAd

Android on TouchPAdThe whole HP TouchPad story could be a tragedy or comedy, depending how you look at it.  Right now it could considered a comedy of errors or a tragedy of lust, greed and power (if you can't find a cheap $99 TouchPad)   The story flips and flops constantly with no consistency.

While developers are coding tyring to hack webOS to run anything Android, some HP TouchPads (3 reported) were sold with Android installed.   

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HP TouchPads Back-in-Stock Good News & Bad News

TouchPad HP Sale

TouchPad HP SaleWe've got some good news and bad news for you.  First the good news - new HP TouchPads are coming back in stock at some online retailers!!!  Now the bad news -the 32GB TouchPad is selling for the same price we saw on Monday at the HP online store, $299.

Fingerhut is showing that it has the 32GB HP TouchPad in stock, costs $299 and it expected to ship in 7-10 days.  We heard that there is a limited supply. Now that's still a really good price but not the previous deal of all time. It's the same price that the BlackBerry PlayBook is being sold for at Staples.

We understand that if you use coupon code E1992 (20% off order) at Fingerhut you can get the 32GB HP TouchPad for $239.99.

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HP TouchPad Touched by Android webOS Devs Could Win TouchPad

web OS Developer HP TouchPAD

web OS Developer HP TouchPADBargain hunters who were able to get the tablet deal of the year, a cheap full-featured TouchPad for $99 are now closer to getting a touch of Android running as an app in webOS and a new prize-winning text-to-speech app.

There is an Android app that runs from an IPK and lets Android run within a card.  It is believed to be running as virtual machine or Android SDK emulator.  It doesn't run YouTube videos or audio and lacks multi-touch, but gives webOs a touch of Android.

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