14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung is one of major tech players on the market that thinks users need and love big-screen tablets. But the Korean company appears not to be the only one building a strategy along these lines.
HP is apparently prepping a tablet with a spacious display too. A device going by the name of HP Slate 12 Pro has been spotted making an appearance on the GFXBench website.
By all indication, the machine seems to be a tablet. It will supposedly arrive with a 12.5-inch touchscreen with at least 5 finger gesture support that should offer a quite decent resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 pixels.
Under the hood, HP has added a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with Qualcomm Adreno 330. The tablet is fitted with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, and as far as we can see, there’s no option for 32GB or 64GB.
Last but not least, the tablet has two cameras (8MP on the back and 2MP up in front).
The good news is that if it arrives on the market, the tablet will run Android 4.4.2 out of the box. This is particularly important since HP has been known to be sluggish in providing software updates.
Back in June, the company finally rolled out the new build for its HP Slate Extreme, which a re-branded version of the NVIDIA Tegra Note 7. You might be wondering why we have a problem with that.
We don’t, but the fact is that the update for the Slate Extreme arrived months before the new KitKat build was provided for the Advent Vega, Gigabyte and EVGA variations of the tablet.
Anyway, for all we know, HP could just be testing a prototype with a big screen, while gathering the reactions of feedback of subjects experimenting with the model. After all, not all models that appear on the GFXBench website make a real debut on the market.
Still, many items uncovered on the GFXBench eventually turn out in retail, but until we don’t spot the product in some other databases like the FCC, we can’t be sure that HP Slate 12 Pro is a real device or not.
The company has already a tablet with similar specs on the market, which comes with a smaller form factor. We’re talking about the HP Slate 8 Pro that also boasts the same 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution, but instead of Qualcomm, Snapdragon draws life form a Tegra 4 chip.