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HP Back In Tablet Game With Android-Based 'Slate7'

Posted by Soulskill on from the unique-and-special-just-like-everyone-else's-tablet dept.

theodp writes "You know the old adage, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me?' Still, even if you got bit by the HP TouchPad debacle, HP's newly-announced $169 Slate7 tablet could prove hard to resist. Specs-wise, the Slate7 sports an ARM Dual Core Cortex-A9 1.6 GHz processor, 7-inch 1024x600 HFFS screen, Android 4.1 (Jellybean), three-megapixel camera on the back, front-facing VGA camera, 8GB of on-board storage, HP ePrint, Beats Audio, and a micro SD expandable card slot. It measures 197mm x 116mm x 10.7mm thick, and weighs in at 13 ounces. It will be available in the U.S. in April. Engadget has some pics and their initial hands-on take."

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  1. Re:Kindle HD by Threni · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nexus 7 (pure Android), or Nexus 10 (pure Android, larger, loads more powerful). Don't see the point of saving a little money for some crappy customised machine. There's no problem looking at pdfs, movies etc on any Android device, so no advantage in Amazon hardware.

  2. Re:The innovation we've come to expect from HP by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My thoughts exactly. Compare it to the Nexus 7:

    - Shit screen
    - Shit CPU
    - Shit camera
    - Old version of Android
    - Usual HP "quality"

    About the only thing it has going for it is the SD card slot, which would put it on a par with Chinese tablets costing half the price except that it will inevitably have HP's bloatware pre-installed and un-removable instead of vanilla Android.

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  3. Re:great name!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dunno.

    How many people returned the Nexus 7 because they thought it had Windows 7?

  4. It's a first step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Part of the problem with HP is they make an entry into a market, and its not perfect and they turn and run immediately. WebOS was a case in point, overpriced, not perfect, immediately dumped. No attempt to refine it and retry.

    Here Android tablets have moved on from this, they'll need to have a few stabs at this to get it right. But they won't, they'll turn and run.