After a false alarm, HP is keeping to its initial promise of delivering its Slate 7 Android tablet this month — and with a few days to spare, no less. The seven-inch device, which first popped up at MWC back in February, is now on sale in the US through the company’s retail site, for the low, low price of $170. Click on the source link below to get your hands on the Beats-rocking Nexus 7 competitor.
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You’re not looking at a new phone headed to stores any time soon—in fact, you’re looking at the surprisingly sleek, all-touch webOS smartphone developed by HP which (sadly?) never was. More »
We have come across some interesting devices from HP before, and most recently, the HP Prime, which is not an autobot in secret, but rather, a color graphing calculator. Surely the HP Prime caters to an extremely niche market, and something that would carry far more mass appeal would be the HP WindsorNot, which has been touted to be a full-touchscreen webOS smartphone that made its rounds on the Internet in a promotional video but was never really released simply because there was no room in the mobile operating system market for webOS to thrive.
The HP WindsorNot has appeared yet again online in a bunch of leaked photos, and webOS Nation reported that this particular smartphone was originally in the pipeline for a launch right after the Pre 3 sometime in late 2011. Unfortunately, legend has it that HP webOS head back then, Jon Rubinstein, decided to allocate additional resources to the Pre 3 compared to the WindsorNot as he is restricted by limited assets, in addition to other factors. This caused the HP WindsorNot to be pushed back to 2012, which was too late by then to salvage the situation.
The HP WindsorNot prototype that you see here sports a 4-inch 800×480, a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor and 8GB of internal memory, with a microUSB port to boot. Ah, what could have been…
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The downfall of webOS left more than a few canceled devices in its wake, but the most elusive of the bunch tends to be the WindsorNot: a touch-only smartphone. We’ve seen hints of it here and there, but the shy little device has largely been kept under wraps — until now. The dedicated folks at webOS Nation have managed to get their hands on a functional prototype. The 4-inch devices seems to lie somewhere between a Pre3 and HP Touchpad, aping the hardware specifications of the former while adopting the latter’s software version: webOS 3.0. The tweaked software does feature a smartphone-sized keyboard, but webOS Nation says some of the OS’ trappings are difficult to read, and were clearly meant to be refined for the smaller screen before release. The phone’s form, on the other hand, seems to be top notch, indicating that the project was canned before the software team had a chance to catch up. Check out the source link for a full walkthrough of the device and a brief history lesson of webOS’ last days.
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Source: webOS Nation
In this modern day and age of smartphones most people don’t carry a standalone graphing calculator. Anything a calculator can do, you smartphone can do as well, all thanks to the plethora of calculator apps that are available for major platforms. If you absolutely must possess a calculator that doesn’t live inside your smartphone, check out the HP Prime. It has a multi-touch display and can run a host of apps.
Today HP posted a promotional video of The Prime standalone graphing calculator on YouTube, it is going to be released this Fall. The calculator touts a 3.5 inch full color touchscreen display, full hardware keys that one would expect on a sophisticated calculator and the ability to run apps. The design looks a lot like that of Porsche designed P’9981 BlackBerry smartphone, but just to be clear, this calculator does not have phone or email features. The HP Prime will ship with a number of apps preloaded, though the app library can reportedly be expanded by sideloading. They’ve not revealed any pricing or availability information as yet. Looks good, doesn’t it?
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Graphing calculators haven’t changed much over the years, but they don’t really need to. Or do they? It turns out HP wants to completely revolutionize the graphing calculator, and has released a teaser video showing off its new Prime graphing calculator that sports a 3.5-inch multitouch display and a brushed aluminum body.
This is undoubtedly the most advanced graphing calculator we’ve seen, especially since most of the top-of-the-lines ones are still made of plastic and don’t even have a touchscreen display. The HP Prime comes with a suite of graphing apps that will get you through your tedious high school and college math courses, and the multitouch screen looks to make it easier to plot out points on a plain.
The brushed aluminum body is also something we don’t see very often on a graphing calculator, but honestly, this is what a graphic calculator should be in the first place, especially if you’re paying a couple hundred dollars for it. However, pricing hasn’t been announced for the HP Prime yet, nor is the company saying anything about availability.
The collection of apps allow you to easily insert formulas, much like an Excel spreadsheet, which is extremely handy and way easier than any of those older Texas Instruments graphing calculators. Uses will also be able to connect the Prime to their PC to create apps and programs on, and then send them to the calculator. However, it’s not said what the Prime will do as far as gaming is concerned, but we’re guessing that there will be plenty of that.
[via Chip Chick]
HP teases Prime multitouch graphing calculator is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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These are exciting times for anyone who’s refused to replace their trusty standalone graphing calculator with a similarly capable smartphone or tablet app. Your stubbornness is finally paying off as HP is teasing what appears to be one of the most advanced color touchscreen calculators the scientific world has ever seen. That, or a lame smartphone with a form factor dating back a few years. More »
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Only those who were at the highest levels of HP at the time will likely ever know the full story of the spectacularly botched $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and webOS. In the span of only eight months in 2010, the IT giant’s plans for the operating system underwent a titanic turnabout — from a foundation technology that would infiltrate every crevice of its device business to an orphaned open-source project ultimately sold to LG Electronics. Was the shift driven by core business softness that precluded further investment, the personal fiat of a short-tenured CEO or a justifiable reaction to disappointing sales? All three likely played some role.
HP purchased Palm because it was dissatisfied with the options it saw in the mobile operating system landscape. Beyond the deep relationship the company had with Microsoft for PCs, it had dabbled with Windows Mobile on a couple of smartphones such as the HP Glisten that never saw broad distribution. It had also produced an Android device, an obscure netbook called the Compaq AirLife 100 that lacked Android Market and was distributed exclusively via Spanish telecom giant Telefonica.
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HP offers you their latest Full HD monitor, the EliteDisplay E231. Aimed at business users, this new 23-inch monitor provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 1000;1 contrast ratio and 250 cd/m2 brightness, and consumes just 16.6W of power during normal operation. In terms of connectivity ports, it has DVI, D-Sub and DisplayPort. The EliteDisplay E231 retails for 32,550 Yen (about $332). [HP]
In case you were curious about the status of HP’s Slate 7 Android tablet, you may be pleased to know that it finally has a ship date in the UK. The new tablet from HP, which was first introduced at Mobile World Congress back in February, will be making its way to the UK on May 1, where residents there can purchase it for £129.
Originally, the tablet was said to be delayed into June, but HP eventually updated its product page again and noted that the tablet would release sometime this month. However, it looks like the company will just barely miss that time frame, as the UK will get the tablet just one day after the end of April.
On HP’s UK listing of the Slate 7, it mentions an availability date of May 1, but it looks like you can pre-order the tablet right now As for a release date in the US, there’s no word on when that’ll happen (except for a vague April 2013 window), but you can expect to pay $170 for the tablet, which undercuts Google’s famed Nexus 7 by a whole $30.
The HP Slate 7 comes with a 1024×600 7-inch display and it runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box. Under the hood there’s an ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor clocked at 1.6 GHz with 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage. Overall, not a bad product for what you’ll be paying, but the small 8GB storage may turn away some users.
[via Engadget]
HP Slate 7 hitting the UK on May 1 for £129 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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