Tenet
insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes
(The
incurable itch of writing possess many)
Juvenal, Satire, VII
HP
(Hewlett Packard) just got serious about Mobile Computing. During the seven (7)
day MWC 2013 (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona, Spain, schmooze-fest that
began on Monday February 25th 2013, HP made it known that they plan
to bring some Google Android powered device to Market by the Second Quarter of
2013.
Officially
this time, no speculation!
In
the case of HP, it’s a Tablet (gasp! Finally…what took you so long HP), aptly
named the Slate 7 as reported in “MWC
2013: HP unveils $169 Slate 7 Android tablet for April release”,
published February 24, 2013 19:51 GMT 11:51 PST, By Sean Portnoy, ZDNet.
It’s
a beauty and holds much promise to get HP back in the PC Game, this time
selling a decent Tablet with training wheel specs:
Aesthetics
1. Price:
US$169 (Outstanding!
2. Size:
7” (Perfect!!)
3. Colours:
Aluminium Grey and Red (Magnifique!)
4. Weight:
13 oz
Specs
1. OS:
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
2. Resolution:
1,024x600 display
3. Processor:
1.6GHz ARM Cortez A9 dual-core
4. Storage:
8GB of Internal Storage
The usual suspects
1. Front
and Rear Facing Cameras
2. Micro-USB
port
What’s New
1. HP's
ePrint Technology
2. Beats
Audio Technology
At
US$169 it’s within the MPP (Magic Pricing Point) of US$199 that makes 7”
Tablets such as the Amazon Kindle Fire HD as described in my blog
article entitled “Amazon
launches a pair of Kindle Fire 2 - ACS-Xerox Call Centers in Jamaica ramp up as
Kindle Fire begin to Sparkle” fly off the shelves.
Google
Android 4.1 aka Jelly Bean’s a great touch; latest OS with access to Google
Play App Store. Hopefully this is just a prototype, as HP needs to step up its
game with Retina Display, a faster Gaming ready Quad-Core Processor and at
least an option to supersize-me with 128GB Storage.
Beat’s
Audio Technology under the hood is the only innovation – and the cut-rate price
– is the only sweeteners that’d make me even look at my Credit Card to buy this
Tablet.
Just
saying…….
HP’s
misadventures with the PC World with WebOS are well documented as noted in my blog
article entitled “HP
gets out of PC, TouchPad and WebOS Business - Apple iPad's victim A long Time Ago
in Mexico” and the Geezam
blog
entitled “WebOS
powered HP TouchPad for US$99 – HP exits PC business in Apple’s Post-PC era”.
So
let’s not go there.
Clearly,
HP fears Tablets killing its Printing Business Golden Goose, hence the
intention to go to Tablets running Windows 8 as surmised in my blog
article entitled “HP
to make Tablets that run on Windows 8 – Resident Evil Retribution for Printing”.
That explains the inclusion of the HP ePrint Technology, no doubt designed to
work with their line of Cloud Printers.
HP
it seems, has renewed their focus on Cloud Printing as prescribed in my blog
article entitled “Windows
8 Tablets and Cloud Printing - Tifa Spell's Out Microsoft's Super 8 Advantage”
Those
Windows 8 Tablets haven’t materialized, but this has popped up. So I’m at last
happy and hopeful for HP finally “getting it” as it relates to Tablets and how
it can rescue their Bread-and-butter Printing Business. In reality, placing
images on paper or on a Tablet screen are in fact the same concept, just
different Media.
Now
all they need is to work on making a deal with the Mozilla Corporation before the
end of the Second Quarter of 2013 to make hardware that uses Firefox OS as
described in my blog
article entitled “MWC
2013 reveals Firefox OS & Tizen OS launching Second & Third Quarter
2013 respectively - Samsung's Despicable Me 2 & Mozilla practices The ABC’s
of Death”.
Then
make their own App Store with their OWN content and they’d have it made in the
shade. In so doing, HP would have averted their coming demise as described in
my Geezam blog
entitled “How
American and Canadian investors Plan to make money from the US$10 million Trade
in Plastics and other Recyclables in Jamaica”.
Combined
with their recent move to make Chromebooks for Google, namely the 14” HP
Pavilion Chromebook 14-c010us as described in my blog
article entitled “Lenovo
and HP now making Chromebooks - Google Chrome OS is being Built from the Cloud
Up and Microsoft experiences the Side Effects”, HP’s got their head back in
the game, High School Musical ( TV
2006) Style.
Hopefully
the same treatment for smartphones too, be it Google Android AND Firefox OS
(can never have too many Mobile OS you know!), as I’m quite sure Dell may be
leaning on Ubuntu OS for Tablets, which will also make its debut in the Second
Quarter of 2013.
Just
goes to show you that LiMo Open Source is like RedBull as it Gives you Wings Beyond the Hills (2012).
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