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hey guys this michael fisher with pocketnow.com here at mwc in barcelona checking out the first HP tablet of notes in a while the HP slate 7 let's take a quick tour so as you might predict this device is running Android but let's take a look at the hardware first we take a little spin around here the back is coated in a sort of a soft touch material that is actually a whole lot more like it feels almost like a composite or something like that it's very difficult to describe but the weight feels really good in the hand is not the thinnest tablet ever as you can see but it's also not the thickest feels a lot like the google nexus 7 the camera on the back here is not present on the Nexus 7 but this one is quite low as in the resolution at three megapixels you can see the HP logo called out here as it would have been on the touchpad go and as it was on the pre three back in webos days notice the Beats Audio branding here which gives this device some form of distinction on the software side we come around to the front you can see just volume rocker on the side power button on top microsd expansion up to an additional 32 gigs you're going to probably need that if you get this tablet because internal storage is limited to eight gigs so you're going to definitely wanna pick up microSD card if you do pick up this device here's your headphone jack let's turn on this 7-inch display which has a kind of a strange resolution at 1024 x 600 and it is an LCD technology side viewing angles are pretty ok 44 an LCD obviously you're not gonna get the deep blacks of an AMOLED panel and this displays running very hot right now we had them turn up the brightness so we could actually see what was going on this is running stock Android jelly bean actually for 12 as I recall and it you can see so we're not going to show you a skin HP didn't throw anything and kind of exciting on here front-facing cameras 1 megapixel unit there's not a whole lot going on with this device that is entirely remarkable it's going to go on sale sometime in March for around 149 euro HP is saying which equates to live by the low 200s in American dollars we should have some more insight on this on this device it kind of expecting something maybe a little bit more blockbuster ish from HP on their first android tablet attempt in a long time but once again it's just initial impressions over our first couple minutes with the unit michael fisher with pocket now with the HP slate7 stay tuned for a lot more