UPDATE: Reader Ethan has let us know that it is actually Quic (Qualcomm Innovation Center). The uploader has vowed to dump /system and post its results to the internet, which would definitely reveal more interesting information. We’ll inform of you of any updates regarding this story. Here’s the video itself, it is quite shaky so don’t watch if you get nauseated easily: The TouchPad packs Android-friendly hardware, which would make running Google’s mobile OS on it relatively easy. However, it is equally likely that this just might be real. There is a great chance that this might be fake. The decision comes from all the negative press feedback and the absolutely dismal sales of the TouchPad. HP announced the discontinuation of all webOS-based smartphones and its only tablet – the TouchPad – on 19th August. This technically would make the $99 HP TouchPad the cheapest and fastest Android tablet. The project aims to bring Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” to the HP TouchPad with Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” expected to be ported over when it arrives later this year. Our readers should know that a group of four developers have initiated the TouchDroid project. Do let us know if you find anything about it. We looked around and couldn’t find anything related to Android/HP for the term Quirc.
One comment on the YouTube video suggests that it may be a leaked device having a dev build of Android installed by Quirc. Perhaps it is a testing unit which HP may have used to see how Android runs on TouchPad’s very capable hardware, like they reportedly did with the iPad (webOS was found to be twice as fast on the iPad as compared to its performance on the TouchPad). It seems quite unlikely to us for HP to ship an TouchPad unit with Android on it. A coworker ordered his HP Touchpad for $99 from bestbuy, this is the 32g, when he got it, it came with android already on it, I just ordered mine, so if anyone knows how android go on it, please let me know.
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