As rumors suggested, HP re-enter the tablet market with Slate 7, a new Android tablet that the company introduced at MWC 2013 in Barcelona. In the past, HP has already released Windows 7 tablets with WebOS, which had little success.
The presentation of the tablet did not occur precisely at MWC, but the night before the start of the event, but it is practically the same. The Slate 7 is a 7-inch tablet that runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and weighs about 370 grams. With this new gadget, HP is focusing on a market sector that looks very promising: the mid-sized mobile devices. Obviously here the firm find much competition from Nexus 7, iPad and Kindle Fire HD Mini, among others.
Regarding specifications Slate 7, the tablet has a dual-core 1.6GHz Cortex A9 architecture, has a screen resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, has Beats Audio speakers, features a microUSB port, a front camera VGA quality and a 3MP rear. The internal memory is 8GB, but we can expand using a microSD card.
The price of the tablet for is only U.S. $ 180, making it very likely to be able to cope with the rest of the competition in its sector.
What are your first impressions of the HP Slate 7?
