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HP TouchPad Confirmed For June?
Good news if you’ve been waiting for the HP TouchPad as it seems that there is a very high chance that we will be seeing it launched in June, thanks to reports that Office Max and Walmart are both preparing themselves for a June launch of the device. Prices for the TouchPad is at $599 for the 32GB Wi-Fi TouchPad and the 16GB model will be expected to be around $499. Chances are the launch will prove to be a pretty big deal as it seems that HP has spent $10 million on celebrity endorsements from Russell Brand, Lady Gaga, JayZ, Kanye West and Lea Michele.
Sounds good? Well if you’re wondering what the big deal about this tablet is, or you’ve forgotten the specs, here they are. It will be running webOS 3.0 while sporting a9.7-inch display (1024 x 768 screen resolution), a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon CPU, inbuilt gyroscope, accelerometer, compass and 16GB or 32GB of internal storage space. A front-facing 1.3 megapixel webcam with support for video calling, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS (3G model only) and a set of stereo speakers.
If that caught your attention then you won’t have to wait long as June is literally just around the corner, so hang tight!
HP has indulged in the tablet market for quite a number of years already, although they have not exactly been the most successful of companies in this particular niche. This time around, it does look as though HP will be preparing a couple of new tablets – that do seem to obtain a strong influence from Huawei, so much so that they could very well be just rebranded devices.
How does a HP branded smartphone sound to you? I am quite sure that those of us out there who are more concerned about reliability might prefer a brand name that has fared far better than HP in the smartphone industry, such as the likes of Samsung, Apple, Nokia or LG. Well, if you love rooting for the underdog always, and want to give something different a try, HP might have just the thing for you.
An alleged HP smartphone was leaked out earlier this week, and it certainly seemed to jive with what HP Senior Director Yam Su Yin mentioned earlier this month, that HP intends to make a return to the smartphone business by introducing a unique model. The executive was even quoted, that “HP has to be in the game.” Do you think you will pick up a HP branded smartphone when the time comes?
HP could be working on a spanking new high end Android-powered tablet which they have seen fit to call the HP SlateBook 10 X2. Of course, this is a particularly new piece of tech which was first picked up by the good people over at TabTech of Germany, courtesy of an AnTuTu benchmark. The HP SlateBook 10 X2 does seem to come with a 10” display of unknown resolution count, where it will be accompanied by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 4 processor that has been clocked at 1.8GHz, and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean in tow.
No idea on pricing or availability of the HP SlateBook 10 X2 though, but then again, it would not be the first of such devices to be announced by what was once a major computer manufacturing force in the world, since we have been acquainted with the Windows 8-powered HP Envy X2 before this. We do, however, hope to hear and see more about the HP SlateBook 10 X2 in due time.