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HP claims they did not distribute TouchPads with Android
It seems that there have been cases where HP TouchPad owners have received their tablets only to find Android running in the place of webOS. After announcing that they would produce one last batch of TouchPad tablets for their remaining customers, it looks like the latest batch of customers got more than what they asked for.
This could be a good or bad thing as developers Cyanogenmod have been busy trying to port Android over to the TouchPad, but if these claims are true, it looks like someone has beaten them to the punch. According to HP, they are claiming that they had no idea of this happening and that they had nothing to do with this.
Some developers are suspecting Qualcomm as the QuIC (Qualcomm Innovation Center) logo flashed when launching the tablet for the first time. Qualcomm has also said that the device was not manufactured or distributed by their QuIC division.
HP is now trying to trace this back to the source, but given that a good many people had purchased the $99 tablet in hopes of installing Android on it, it seems like a win-win situation. Unless of course you bought the tablet hoping for webOS instead.
HP has indulged in the tablet market for quite a number of years already, although they have not exactly been the most successful of companies in this particular niche. This time around, it does look as though HP will be preparing a couple of new tablets – that do seem to obtain a strong influence from Huawei, so much so that they could very well be just rebranded devices.
How does a HP branded smartphone sound to you? I am quite sure that those of us out there who are more concerned about reliability might prefer a brand name that has fared far better than HP in the smartphone industry, such as the likes of Samsung, Apple, Nokia or LG. Well, if you love rooting for the underdog always, and want to give something different a try, HP might have just the thing for you.
An alleged HP smartphone was leaked out earlier this week, and it certainly seemed to jive with what HP Senior Director Yam Su Yin mentioned earlier this month, that HP intends to make a return to the smartphone business by introducing a unique model. The executive was even quoted, that “HP has to be in the game.” Do you think you will pick up a HP branded smartphone when the time comes?
HP could be working on a spanking new high end Android-powered tablet which they have seen fit to call the HP SlateBook 10 X2. Of course, this is a particularly new piece of tech which was first picked up by the good people over at TabTech of Germany, courtesy of an AnTuTu benchmark. The HP SlateBook 10 X2 does seem to come with a 10” display of unknown resolution count, where it will be accompanied by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 4 processor that has been clocked at 1.8GHz, and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean in tow.
No idea on pricing or availability of the HP SlateBook 10 X2 though, but then again, it would not be the first of such devices to be announced by what was once a major computer manufacturing force in the world, since we have been acquainted with the Windows 8-powered HP Envy X2 before this. We do, however, hope to hear and see more about the HP SlateBook 10 X2 in due time.