14 DAY TRIAL // HP has been pushing out a lot of Android slates this year. You might remember the Slatebook 10 x2, the Slate 7 HD, 7 Extreme, 8 Pro or Slate 10 HD which are pretty good devices all in all, but they lack a certain appeal and surely won’t rise up to the popularity of the iPad or other market blasters.
Interestingly enough, there have been rumors circulating online that claimed HP might be working on an Android phone, as well, but that proved to be only a myth. For the moment, HP remains focused on tablets and hybrids.
Speaking of which, an unannounced HP slate and a phablet made their first public appearance, popping up on the GFXBench website. The tablet in question goes by the name HP Browser 10 x2 and appears to be a notebook/tablet convertible with a detachable keyboard.
From what could be gathered off the GFXBench site, the new elusive Browser slate is pretty similar to the Slatebook 10 x2. It will probably sport a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 4 CPU clocked at 1.8GHz and will come boasting a full HD screen.
The slate will probably run Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. By the looks of it, the slate doesn’t feature anything too revolutionary, but details are scarce at the moment, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
As for the other device, dubbed the Slate 6 Voice Tab, there’s no certainty it’s even a phablet. Only the 6 digit is an indicator of what kind of screen the device might end up boasting, possibly a 6-inch one. Apart from that, the purported phablet will come bearing a MarvellPxa1088 processor with quad Cortex A7 cores and Vivante GC100 GPU. It will probably support voice call capabilities.
But companies like ASUS already have a 7-inch tablet, the Fonepad 7 that allow users to place voice-calls, though a 6-inch hybrid would probably appeal to a different consumer segment. We'll update you as more information surfaces.
