Sunday, February 24, 2013

Slate 7 hands-on: a standard Android tablet with standard HP style

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HP just announced that it's getting back in to the tablet game, but this time with Android instead of webOS. The Slate 7 is a perfectly straight-forward 7-inch Android tablet, with specs as middling as its build quality. For $169, you'll get an Android machine running on a 1.6GHz Arm Coretex A9 of mysterious provenance (HP wouldn't tell us precisely who makes it) with a 1024 x 600 LCD display and 1GB or RAM. There's the usual Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1, plus a 3.1 megapixel camera on the back and 8GB of storage — though you can augment that with a microSD card.


Since it's running (mostly) stock Android 4.1, really the main differentiators between this and the Nexus 7 are that aforementioned microSD card slot and the Beats Audio-powered...


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