Gadgetory

hello I'm the West Road scene out here at mobile world congress 2013 taking a look at the HP slate7 so this is the first android tablet that HP has ever made and as you can see it's going very very much for the nexus 7 style of slate so it's got a 7-inch screen that has a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution it's it's reasonably thin and it feels quite light around the back you can see it's got this matte grey effect and the Beats Audio logo just down here inside there's a dual-core arm a9 processor which is blocks to at 1.6 gigahertz it feels quite smooth swiping around I have another chance to run some benchmarks but preliminarily my first impressions are that it feels quite smooth around the back this camera has a 3 megapixel sensor and there is a front facing camera as well which is going to come in handy if you want to make video calls it's running on Android version 4.1 which is jelly bean but it's not the very latest version of jelly bean don't worry though because HP told me it does have plans to update to version 4.2 in the near future those who know their way around Google's operating system will realize that this is very very close to the stock version of Android that you'd get on devices like the Nexus 4 or the Nexus 7 so what is different well HP has put some of its own audio software on board that is Beats Audio of course the same partnership that it has with its laptops and what that basically means is if I go into settings you can see there's a beats audio option here and you can tweak these options and that will modulate the sound probably making it a little bit basio giving it a little bit of extra punch now this tablet is very very cheap it's going to cost 169 dollars or 149 euros when it comes out in March is coming out in the US first and yeah that's going to be in March so it's very very cheap this cheaper than the nexus 7 I would say the screen possibly isn't as luxurious as Google's option but there is of course that trade-off because you're getting a cheaper device so first impressions are this isn't the most powerful jaw-dropping luxurious tablet ever but it is extremely cheap so it could turn out to be a really good value on the west road to cnet's and this is the HP slate7