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HP Slate Will Support Flash

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Another video of the HP slate has been released demonstrating the HP Slates’ flash capabilities. HP seem to be marketing against its rival the apple iPad, which doesn’t support flash, apples’ CEO Steve Jobs said this was because the technology was slow, buggy and was vulnerable to hackers. But with HP having such an advantage, it seems the Slate has allready won this mini PC tablet wars. The video promotes the many things that the Slate will be able to do thanks to flash, and in a way it also promotes the many thing the iPad can’t do becuase it doesn’t support it.

I admit that the video does look a bit… fake, but it still points out the things that the Slate will be able to do.

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HP Slate: Update

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The previous post on the HP slate was sort of left hanging as HP didn’t reveal much about the specs or cost of the device, probably because they wanted to see what apple had in store with the iPad first. Well The Wall Street Journal have reported that there are plans to undercut the price of the iPad.

In the next few weeks, executives from Hewlett-Packard Co. will meet in the U.S. and Taiwan to tweak prices and features on an upcoming keyboardless computer dubbed the Slate, said two people familiar with the matter.

H-P has discussed selling a version of the Slate — similar to the iPad in size and features, and including a cellular connection — for a price below the $629 Apple charges for an equivalent iPad, one of these people said.
So still not to much news on the specs, but I’m sure that they will be released soon enough.

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HP Tablet PC: The HP Slate

Friday, January 29th, 2010

HP have anounced and have released preview videos of their new HP Tablet PC device or HP Slate. The PC like device has been developed by HP with the help of microsoft and is due to be released mid 2010.

There isn’t much information on the specifications of the device at the moment but there are a couple of videos on youtube about the development of the HP Slate. What we do know is that the Slate will run windows 7, has a x86 processor, WIFI capabilities, a multitouch display, webcam, USB ports, and will be able to run all aplications compatible with the Windows OS including the kindle app giving you access to over 400,000 books.

Rumors of the device have been around for ages as HP originally concieved the idea around 5 years ago, but only as a e-reader type device. The slate was not anounced officially until earlier this month, just a couple of weeks before the launch of their future competitor the Apple iPad.

The price of the HP Slate is yet to be announced, but it is rumoured to cost under $800 (£500), which sounds about right as Apples’ product will cost from $499 (aprox. £300) upwards.

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