Most of the people who bought a HP TouchPad tablet for $99 were dreaming about an Android port on the device and now they’re closer than ever to getting it. Courtesy of the CyanogenMod team things have progressed a lot and now the CM7 ROM is found on the HP TouchPad. There’s a video below showcasing the major functions available now on the tablet.
For one, Android Market now works, although the main page is shown in a strange way on the 9.7 inch display. As you can see, there’s also a live wallpaper available, the one with the little fishes, that doesn’t cause any lag. Even waves are available once you touch the screen, so that’s a nice touch. For now the, YouTube Android app isn’t functional, but rest assured that it’s coming in the near future. At least we can use the YouTube website, if the need arises…
There’s also a benchmark being run on the slate, but the performance was a bit slow, I have to admit. At this time, it seems that only one of the two 1.5GHz cores is active, at least in the demo, so this is the culprit responsible for the slow performance. I always had this curiosity: once Android will be full go on the TouchPad, will anyone want to keep webOS for dual boot purpose?
