Hewlett-Packard on Fri started shipping its $169.99 Slate seven pill with golem four.1, that signals the company's return into the patron pill market when the TouchPad imploded in 2011.

The Tablet became accessible initial within the U.S. through its web site. The tablet is additionally accessible for order on the company's U.K. website,and is regular to ship on May 1.

Slate 7 is HP's first consumer tablet offering since the 2011 debacle of the web OS-based Touch Pad tablet, which was nixed after HP that year announced it would either sell or spin off its Personal Systems Group, which dealt in PCs and tablets. In a fire sale, HP sold off its remaining Touch Pad tablets at prices starting at $99 and people lined up outside stores to buy the product. HP ultimately retained the PS, and sold off the web OS assets to LG in February this year.
The Slate seven weighs 370 grams, offers 5 hours of battery life on video playback, and is that the company's initial tablet with golem OS. The 7-inch screen displays pictures at a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The pill has 8GB of internal storage, however features a micro-SD slot for expandable storage. it's a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor running at one.4GHz and key options embody a 3-megapixel back camera, a VGA front camera and Wi-Fi. alternative options embody Beats audio, that is additionally found on HP's laptops and desktops.

HP hopes patrons can select its sharply priced tablet over alternative golem tablets like Google's Nexus, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Amazon's Kindle hearth HD, that square measure priced at $199. however HP's well-entrenched rivals provide a collection of services and content as well as music and flicks together with the tablets. HP is wishing on Google for delivery of music, movies and television shows to its tablets, however has aforesaid it may provide its own cloud service once the time is true.Analysts have aforesaid that the tablet's value, specifications and HP name square measure enticing.HP has aforesaid it's experimenting with completely different screen sizes, and has aforesaid additional shopper tablets would be discharged this year. HP conjointly offers business tablets just like the ElitePad 900 supported Windows eight. The $649 Envy X2 with Windows eight may be a hybrid which will be used as a tablet or a portable computer.