A new Android Tablet has been quietly announced by HP. It is not close to spectacular or different but it is incredibly cheap. It’s altogether a normal tablet with a ho-hum screen and above par specs.
The new HP 8 employs a 7.85-inch screen with a 1,024 x 768 resolution, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, 25GB of free Box cloud storage, microSD support and a rather small 3,800mAh battery. The tablet is available in silver, measures 200.3 x 136.3 x 7.95 mm and weighs 0.69 pounds (or around 313g). It has been revealed to be a few pixels less than what is expected in the usual Android Tablets and slated at $170 which is easily compared to the Amazon Kindle Fire.
Why is HP sticking to the smaller tablet size after the company launched the lackluster HP Slate 7 last year? It was nothing close to normal, most and if not all users would rather not use it. It probably helped HP to gain an entrance into the Android Tablet market with no extra effort. We can see that there is no expected increase for HP’s tablet market share as the product is more of the same with the HP 7.
I thought innovations were made to cause a change and not re-package the old with a new case. What is HP getting it with this new HP 8, is it a possible shyness from competition or insecurity of their product? Or is it a clever step to secure the population of market that can only afford a product as such.
