gyro on Monday, January 16, 2012 reviews [0]

Hewlett-Packard's fire sale of their TouchPad tablet has taken a new turn because a few of them have been spotted running the Android OS instead of HP's webOS. HP has reportedly said it was an unauthorized move and that they have begun an internal investigation.
HP's Director of Open-Source Program Office Phil Robb posted a message to a developer discussion group, saying "We presently believe that some person or persons unknown may have facilitated the delivery of these Android-based units strictly against the policy and authorization of HP," PC World reported.

HP sold off their inventory of TouchPads in August for $99 and thousands of them were quickly bought up. Furthermore, HP has announced they are no longer using webOS or making tablet computers and so all of this has added to renewed interest in the devices and the declining webOS. Now come these reports of Android running on the TouchPad, and several worlds are colliding in an unlikely place. Android developers now have renewed hope they can more easily port over the OS to TouchPad in an attempt to get more life out of them, tech blog Daily Tech reported.