HP's Slate 7 Tablet debuts at MWC 2013, set to launch April 2013 - LiMo Open Source is RedBull as it Gives HP Wings Beyond the Hills

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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 25^th 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).