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The death knell for WebOS has sounded. HP promised a lot<\/a> when purchasing the Palm mobile operating system back in 2010, only to abandon ship. The company is among Google’s newest and most-important partners. Earlier this month, HP unveiled its first Chromebook<\/a>, which is followed by its first Android tablet, the Slate 7.<\/p>\n Despite the fact that Mobile World Congress does not technically start until tomorrow, the big announcements<\/a> have already been rolling out from Barcelona, Spain. HP, not to be left out, unveiled its new seven-inch Android tablet, clearly designed to go head-to-head with Amazon Kindle Fire<\/a> HD and Google Nexus 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new device packs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, meaning buyers get Google Now<\/a>, but no Photosphere, which requires version 4.2 of the Android operating system. The Slate 7 also packs in a 3-megapixel rear camera, embedded Beats Audio,\u00a0micro USB port,\u00a0VGA front camera and\u00a0a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 at 1.6 GHz. The Slate 7 also features HP’s ePrint technology. There is nothing about storage capacity included in the announcement.<\/p>\n Alberto Torres, the HP senior vice president of Mobility Global Business Unit, says the Slate 7 is designed to “address the growing interest in tablets among consumers and businesses alike, the company will offer a range of form factors and leverage an array of operating systems”. HP also produces Windows 8 tablets.\u00a0<\/p>\n As for pricing and\u00a0availability, the company announced that the Slate 7 will arrive in April and tempts buyers with a $169 price tag — a full $30 below that of the Amazon and Google competitors. <\/p>\n For now, HP teases potential customers with a product wesite<\/a> that provides additional information. By the way, the website contradicts the press release by stating “available in May 2013”.<\/p>\n So, will this tempt you away from a different purchase?<\/p>\n The death knell for WebOS has sounded. HP promised a lot when purchasing the Palm mobile operating system back in 2010, only to abandon ship. The company is among Google’s newest and most-important partners. Earlier this month, HP unveiled its first Chromebook, which is followed by its first Android tablet, the Slate 7. Despite the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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