Legacy Palm junkies (and I’m a card carrying member of that club) will be glad to hear that Walmart.com is carrying refurbished 32GB HP TouchPads via their online store.
As you can see from the graphic above, the 32GB TouchPad debuted back in July 2011 at $600…wow…seems crazy now, right? The TouchPad was a spectacular flame out going on sale for a brief six weeks before disappearing from store shelfs.
The TouchPad ships with Palm HP webOS 3.0.x, and can be upgraded OTA to webOS 3.0.5. However, if you are the adventurous type, Liliputing.com has an article about how to load Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0. A hack to be sure, and some things like the camera and built-in microphone may not work 100% reliably, but still cool none the less.
I ordered my TouchPad today and should have it next week. I was running the original Sprint edition Palm Pre all the way to the very end of webOS and HP’s Palm division. It will be nice to have a webOS device that is functional again. HP webOS 2.0 on the Palm Pre is just way too slow.
Thanks to Mark for sharing the TouchPad on Walmart.com link!