http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/hp-touchpad-running-android-20110822...

so I guess we'll see it happen. I toyed with buying a Color Nook for a similar reason, but haven't even actually rooted my phone yet ...

Meanwhile I never though I'd read this:

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Discontent over Hewlett-Packard Co.’s strategic shift has left it cheaper than any technology company in the world, turning the largest computer maker into a potential takeover target.

Hewlett-Packard lost more than $10 billion in market value after announcing it will spin off its personal computer unit, buy Autonomy Corp. and scrap a five-month-old plan to put its mobile software on devices. The 20 percent plunge drove down the valuation of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard to 5 times estimated profit, about 70 percent less than the average technology company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

I'll remember them this way:

That's a real bargain. I mean it's a perfectly good tablet; it just wasn't up to the standard of the iPad and didn't have the software infrastructure. Apparently it does some functions extremely well.

You do wonder what kind of corporate politics lead to these things. I mean, how long it was it on sale for? (The other example being the Microsoft Kin.)