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This is the good HP. We knew that HP had been planning on making some new Android hardware, but the Slate 7 is still a pleasant surprise. Because it’s good.
The Slate 7 is built on almost-stock Android. “Almost” means that a few things are added—Beats audio and, sigh, in-app PRINTING (THANKS HP REALLY WANTED THAT)—but other than that, it’s the same build you’d see in a Nexus (though this is built on 4.1.1). Integrated, not skinned. Playing with it, it’s just as fast and fluid as a stock build. This might be a better way to do Android.
As for the hardware, you’d never guess from holding it that this is a £125 tablet. It’s got a soft touch back plate and a stainless steel side, and, more importantly, it feels sturdy without being heavy, and is comfortable to hold in portrait or landscape because of its 16:10 size. It’s essentially like using a variant of the Nexus 7 that is made differently, but not perceptibly worse. And cheaper.
The 1024×600 display isn’t amazing for its vibrance or sharpness, but it’s on par with the Nexus, and its colour imperfections sort of reminded me of the Nexus 7′s screen.
The stories, though, are the builds. Of the Slate 7 itself and its version of Android.
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Ugly Bezel
Seems pretty good value for money though….
No, the screen isn’t on par with the Nexus 7, that is a 1280×800 resolution
To reiterate what I recently said on Google+ regarding this development, “after what it did to webOS, HP is dead to me”.
Give them a chance, it was Leo Apotheker that killed webOS. He even wanted to kill all of HP’s PC business.
Where’s the other half of this article?
Me too, reading this one feels like half way through it just
I had a quick google to see if the American site had a more complete article. I found
looks very cheap and nasty, like generic chinese cheap and nasty
You can tell from a photo?
dealing with phones and tablets every single day in every form, yes i like to think i can. and what i can see is a low quality screen covering, thats not nice solid gorilla glass i can tell you that much, it looks more like the awful thin plastic seen on the likes of the versus tablet
Well it seems to have front and rear cameras, which is always a good sign.
Give it a 3g model with non-crippled voice capabilities (I’m looking at you Nexus 7!) and an SD card slot (also looking at you Nexus 7, for letting me down like that….) and it could well go on my list of replacement tablets in the next couple of months.
no sd slot isnt that big of a deal, i used to think it was too, then i got a usb otg cable and i can connect all the storage i want, even a 3tb hard drive if i fancy (or an xbox pad or keyboard etc)