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Nightly CM9 builds for the HP TouchPad now available
If you own the HP TouchPad mainly to install Android on it, you’ll be pleased to learn that a nightly build of the CyanogenMod 9 ROM is available for the tablet. Naturally you don’t have to keep updating the device every night since it’s unlikely that groundbreaking features and bug fixes will be released on a nightly basis, but it’s still a step closer to seeing a more stable Beta build seeing its release.
It should be noted that this particular nightly build is considered to be unofficial, but CyanogenMod developer Erik Hardesty apparently recommends them for now since there are no plans to push out that many alpha builds of CM9 for now. Either way if you’d like to get your hands on the nightly build, head on over to Teamwin’s page for the download links, and if you’re clueless as to how to get CM9 onto your HP TouchPad in the first place, Liliputing as some pretty detailed instructions for you guys.
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.