HP’s new Android slates are priced from $150 to $330.
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HP recently made four new tablets available on the market on its website. These Android-powered slates, first announced in September, include two low-end models and two mid-range models. For those seeking alternatives to today’s Galaxy and Nexus tablets, these may be worth consideration.
All four tablets run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and include WiFi, Bluetooth, 25 GB of free Box cloud storage, and a traditional set of headphone and micro-USB ports.
The HP Slate7 Plus starts on the low end of this range of tablets. It offers a 7-inch 1280 x 800 display and is powered by a 1.3-GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor with 1 GB of RAM and eight GB of onboard storage. It comes with a 5-megapixel main camera and a VGA camera facing the user for video chats. It packs a 4,000-mAh battery, but offers only 6.5 hours of battery life. The Tegra 3 processor is a reasonably old chipset, that is probably why the Slate7 Plus has such poor battery life and fees only $150.
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The HP Slate7 Extreme is next within the lineup and makes several upgrades over the Plus. It has the identical display, cameras, and RAM, however the processor is stepped as much as a 1.8-GHz, quad-core Tegra 4. It also improves storage to 16 GB and the ability supply to 4,100-mAh, which supplies for greater than 10 hours of battery life. The Tegra 4 processor, which has a 4+1 chip configuration, really helps improve the Extreme’s battery life when put next to the Plus. The HP Slate7 Extreme costs $200.
HP Slate8 Pro.
The HP Slate8 Pro is the most efficient valuable spec’d of the four tablets, but additionally carries the very best ticket. The Slate8’s 8-inch display includes 1600 x 1200 pixels and it’s protected by Gorilla Glass 3. The Slate8 has the Slate7 Extreme’s 1.8-GHz, quad-core Tegra 4 processor, 1 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage, but improves the camera to eight megapixels (with LED flash and HD video capture) and the battery to five,680 mAh. It offers a whopping 11.5 hours of battery life. The Slate8 also includes Beats Audio and stereo speakers. It costs $330.
Last, the HP Slate10 HD is the biggest of the four tablets, but not necessarily the simplest. The ten-inch screen includes 1280 x 800 pixels, which implies its resolution is significantly lower than that of the Slate8. It’s powered by a 1.2-GHz dual-core Marvell PXA968 processor with 1 GB RAM and 16 GB of storage. The Slate10 features a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera. It has an immense 7,000-mAh battery that offers 10 hours of life. The Slate10 HD costs $299.
The Slate8 could have a smaller screen and price greater than the Slate10, nonetheless it is obviously the ideal of those tablets from HP. All four can be bought directly from HP through its website. The Slate8 goes head-to-head with the Galaxy Note 8 from Samsung, Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX, and naturally the Apple iPad Mini. That’s a troublesome crowd, however the Slate8 has the specs to place up a fight.
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