[phobos512]

The Touchpad is not an MHL device, no.

http://www.mhlconsortium.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-definition_Link

Not sure what "msl" is. Assuming you meant MHL.

 

[phobos512]

Actually believe it or not, the Qualcomm APQ8060 "system on a chip" includes, among many other things, MHL support. So the hardware to support it is certainly there.

Whether or not it is possible to get it working on the software side is another issue.

I do know this much: The Samsung Hercules will use the same SoC that we use, and full MHL support will be included out of the box. There is a slim chance in hell, that somebody could rip the driver blob and apk to work on touchpad android when that comes around. Again, slim chance in hell. Even slimmer chance in hell that the source code would be available.

Failing that (which is likely) somebody would have to reverse engineer the APQ8060 and write a driver themselves. Goodluckwiddat. But hey, it's been done with CM7 on the HTC Evo, so you never know.

Just curious but where is the source for the information that the Qualcomm SOC supports MHL? I've looked everywhere and can't find anything discussing that but some webpages that when opened don't say what the previews on Google do. The APQ8060 product brief on Qualcomm's website says nothing about it. Isn't it possible that Samsung simply used a bridge chip to enable that functionality (much like Intel does when new features like SATA or RAID are introduced until they can be incorporated into their main chipsets)? Samsung has a vested interest in their new products all supporting MHL because the Galaxy SII does in-chipset so it's a feature-set commonality issue.

 

[phobos512]

Hmm...I can't find my original source anymore (I think I read it about a week ago?) but this is still there:

http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releas...r-powers-advanced-3d-gaming-and-stereoscopic#

There was another release (or something similar) that called out MHL specifically though.

Still not sure what this link proves. It talks about HDMI output. MHL doesn't show up anywhere in there. HDMI and MHL are not the same thing. They are electrically very different. That they use the same connector is merely for conveniences' sake per the MHL Consortium.