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Android Phone Tips
Stop now, If you're buying a TouchPad in the hope that soon "TouchDroid" will have a great, stable, fast version of Android for it, you are falling into a major geek trap. If you want Mango, wait until there are phones running Mango, and purchase one of them.

There's a great 1980s song which goes, "Never had a doubt, never a doubt … promises, promises, why do I believe?" Promises are seductive. Companies get sold. Google Androidupdates are the prime example of this. Time and again, companies promise quick updates to Android phones, or consumers have just expected them, assuming hey, what's so difficult? Here's one example: Motorola launched the CLIQ XT phone in March 2010 promising updates to its Android 1.5 OS. 

"Our product team members worked for months to attempt to create a version of Android 2.1 that would perform well on the CLIQ XT. When Windows Phone launched, Microsoft promised a smoother, quicker update process than ended up not happening. Consumers also don't always have time to read the fine print on promises. Whoops.

There's one big exception to my rule: if you're a developer who loves the challenge and doesn't fear failure. If you're the kind of hacker who loves to roll up your sleeves and build Android for the TouchPad, go for it. Buy stuff that does what you need. 

HP TouchPad tablet went on sale through Best Buy in the USA, Future Shop in Canada and HP website three days ago. All three websites sold HP TouchPad 16 GB WiFi tablet version for $99 (Rs 4,500 approx.) and 32 GB WiFi tablet version for $149 (Rs 6,750 approx.). Ever since HP has announced to stop WebOS mobile devices operations, users are looking at alternative uses of the TouchPad tablets. Two strong developer forums have kick-started projects to port Android successfully on the webOS running HP TouchPad. 

Multi-tiered bounty system by HacknMod has highest prize worth $450 for the basic Android Port and second highest is $350 to get the WiFi module working. Long term plan includes eventually porting the Android 3.x Honeycomb tablet specific operating system on TouchPad. Unfortunately, there is no legitimate way to get the HP TouchPad tablet for Rs 4,500 or Rs 6,750 in India. 

Ever since HP has announced to stop WebOS mobile devices operations, users are looking at alternative uses of the TouchPad tablets. Two strong developer forums have kick-started projects to port Android successfully on the webOS running HP TouchPad. 

Multi-tiered bounty system by HacknMod has highest prize worth $450 for the basic Android Port and second highest is $350 to get the WiFi module working. Long term plan includes eventually porting the Android 3.x Honeycomb tablet specific operating system on TouchPad. 
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