Sunday, February 24, 2013

HP announces Slate 7: the company's first Android tablet arrives in April for $169.99

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It's officially true: Hewlett-Packard is back in the mobile race. Today, HP is announcing its first Android product: the HP Slate 7. But it looks like the company won't be making a splash right away: Starting at $169.99, the new device will launch this April with a fairly unimpressive set of specs.


Not completely competitive specs


As you'd expect from the name, the Slate 7 is a seven-inch tablet which runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Under the soft-touch rubber exterior, you'll find a dual-core 1.6GHz ARM Cortex-A9 chip of an undisclosed variety powering a 1024 x 600 resolution FFS+ LCD touchscreen display, which HP says will boast wide viewing angles and perform well in low light. There's 1GB of RAM, 8GB of solid state storage (expandable...


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