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HP's Slate 500 tablet goes on sale for $800
Posted on by Agam Shah, IDG News Service

Hewlett-Packard on Friday stated its extremely expected Slate 500 tablet—the company’s very first these device—is now offered for buy.

Targeted at businesses, the tablet will come with an eight.9-inch screen and run Microsoft’s Windows 7 Specialist OS. It costs $799 and it is right away offered from the U.S. by way of HP’s internet site and channel partners.



The Slate 500 was very first designed as being a consumer product when HP announced it in January, however the organization reassessed its strategies for the unit soon after obtaining Palm for $1.2 billion in April. HP is now focusing on the Slate 500 at organization customers who want a handheld system and so are familiar using the Windows OS and workplace productivity apps,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, explained Carol Hess-Nickels, director of worldwide enterprise notebook marketing and advertising at HP’s Personal Methods Group.

HP strategies to release a separate tablet for customers with all the WebOS cellular application, which was acquired from Palm. The WebOS tablet, which can be however unnamed, will be designed for activities like browsing the internet, viewing movies, playing games and studying e-books, HP has mentioned. It will likely be released in 2011, an HP spokesman explained.

The Slate 500 provides individuals abilities but also is built to connect to servers to record and pull information in true time, Hess-Nickels said. Many enterprises use Windows seven, as well as the device fits effortlessly into IT infrastructures, she explained.

“As we chat to company buyers … they’ve instructed us they want to possess a frequent picture all across their devices,” Hess-Nickels stated.

The tablet weighs about 1.five pounds (0.68 kilograms), so consumers can simply have it to record transactions or consider stock. With VPN (virtual private network) assistance, staff can securely connect to corporate networks.

Designed for “moderate content creation,” the Slate 500 arrives with multitouch and pen-input abilities, and includes a application keyboard for information input, Hess-Nickels stated.

The tablet has two cameras—a 3-megapixel digital camera at the back along with a VGA camera within the front—which could possibly be utilized for videoconferencing. A Broadcom graphics accelerator delivers 720p video playback.

The Slate has an Intel Atom Z540 processor, which runs at a clock pace of 1.68GHz. It arrives using a 64GB solid-state drive and 2GB of RAM. A USB port aids link external storage towards the system.

The tablet presents about five hours of battery lifestyle and recharges inside the dock. The dock contains USB and HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) ports along with a headphone jack.

HP’s Slate 500 will only be available from the U.S. for now, an HP spokeswoman stated. HP did not announce worldwide availability but will examine expanding into other markets, she mentioned.

The gadget will compete with other company tablets including Cisco’s Cius, which was announced in June but hasn't however shipped. Cius consists of a 7-inch display screen and runs on Google’s Android OS. Apple’s iPad tablet has also been adopted by some companies.