HP now joins the Tablet bandwagon by launching their first tablet called the HP Slate 7. It’s an android based tab with a 7 inch screen with audio enhancements for a price of $169 (around Rs. 10K). The price in India however will be slightly more than this.
No word as to when the Slate 7 will be available in the Indian market but for the price and the features this does look like a good buy. The tablet weighs around 370 grams and sails on the Jelly Bean OS.
The screen is 7 inches with 1024×600 pixels resolution. This tab is powered by a dual core cortex A9 processor clocked at 1.6GHz. There are dual cameras a front VGA and a rear 3MP camera with video recording. Since this is an HP product, HP features such as beats audio, ePrint etc are also inherited.
Not only will you enjoy excellent audio but you will also be able to print any documents via Wi-Fi on supported HP printer. Features included are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack and micro USB. There is no built in SIM slot or GPS. If the tab is priced at under Rs. 11,000 it could give some competition to low cost tablets. This tablet was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress.
HP Slate 7 Key features and specifications
- 1.6GHz Dual core ARM Cortex A9 processor.
- 7 inch LCD capacitive multi touchscreen with 1024×600 pixel resolution (170ppi).
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS.
- 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage and microSD/microSDHC support.
- 3MP rear fixed focus camera with recording and front VGA (0.3MP) camera. There is no LED flash.
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, micro USB, Beats Audio, HP ePrint and 3.5mm jack.
- Sensors: G-Sensor and Light sensor.
- Battery backup is about 5 hours (of continuous video playback).
- Price in USD : 169$, more details on Slate 7 here.
Deepankar Chatterjee
Dear Gogi;
Recently laid my hands on HP ElitePad 900. The device is sleek with a decent hardware and windows 8 OS. The Intel atom dual core processor at 1.8 GHz gives a prompt response with standard operations that an user does in the windows OS. The beauty of the device is that it comes with a huge set of accessories (each with its separate price tag) which lets you interface the tab with all sorts of peripheral devices like USB based external hard disks, TVs through HDMI, give presentation through VGA port… all with the docking station (and most of it with the tab jacket). What I could not gather was that, is the tab having any facility to re-install the OS image, if the OS gets infected with a virus.
It was also claimed that the ElitePad 900 can replace your laptop. But I don’t know if we can replace its OS with some other OS in future, that is touch based and is compatible to the hardware of the tab.
The tab looks very sleek and stylish, and it doesn’t require any additional knowledge to operate since most of us are well versed with windows OSs.
Whence you do the review of this device, please address the questions I raised here.
Regards
Deepankar Chatterjee
sagar
No no Which mobile best buy under 6k
XKVNZR
U won’t to try it without a phone. Just download the Firefox os simulator from addons.Firefox.com. The os was revealed a month b4
Ramesh
when will we expect quad core tabs form brand company’s like hp
Shashank
Hey Gogi, Quad-core UMI X2 Launched at price of 20,000….what a joke ?
Eeshan
Sirji, i m planing 2 buy Swipe Legend tab.. Its a dual core, dual sim, dual camera tab.. Please tell me how is this tab? Should i really on this swipe company? And if possible please review this tab.
Please reply asap.
raj
mozilla launches firefox os (low end) phones
sagar
Gogi tell which best buy under 6k?
gogi
Sagar there are some options check this http://www.gogi.in/tablet/
amitpareek
tab2 is much better option
vinu
gogi, no news abt the new zync quad core 3g tablets..am waiting for the 9.7 verison, werent thy supposed to launch month end , u have any info?
/piyush
late but branded product.2nd quater release hmm… release it now.
Biswajit
Gogi sir would u pls tell me how to calculate ppi..? in this case it 7inch with 1024*600 pixel resolutions.. so the ppi is 170 u mentiond.. pls tell me the way to define it..
vipin
wow it looks nice… A budget tablet from HP with this price tag is amazing …let us see how much is its pricing in india…
rohit
hi gogi.
this could have been better if it comes with sim card facility..:(
can u plz suggest me a tab (any size) which comes with a sim card slot(3g) n hav a 1gb ram.. thnx in advance
also single core will b good enough bt if u can suggua dual core dat will be great..
thnx again:)