Rumor: HP Slate In June, Priced At $550 Or Less?

By Doug Aamoth | @daamoth | March 19, 2010 | +

Spanish-language site Clipset.net apparently got some hands-on time with the HP Slate and revealed that European pricing will be set at 400 Euro, which is equivalent to just under $550 here in the US.

That’s not to say that it’ll actually cost $550 here, though. If I were a betting man, I’d think that HP might be shooting for something closer to $499 in order to compete with the you-know-what Pad that’s due out next month.

Other rumored features include Windows 7 with Adobe Flash support, Atom CPU, USB ports, rear-facing webcam, memory card reader, and a rubberized underside to prevent inadvertent bouts with gravity.

The Slate will supposedly launch sometime in June (presumably in the US) with a European launch to follow in September. All this info seems relatively solid so far, although take it with a grain of salt until HP officially releases the details directly.

via Engadget

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Won’t know until we see it and its specs. Flash support won’t be enough to win, it will need the same ease of use (i.e. my wife can use it) and battery life of an iPad if it is going to experience the same sell through. The “middle ground” mass market is who’s made the iPhone a huge success, and while HP could replicate the iPad’s 300,000 first day sales, my guess is that would be over a year to technically savvy people (at which point there will be over a million iPads in use). Its gonna be tough to compete with the Apple app eco system since developers can make iPhone/iPad hybrid apps and its a HUGE market with closed hardware. Sure the Slate itself will be a known commodity hardware-wise, but is it really going to sell enough to get a dedicated based of developers like the iPhone OS has? Doubtful.

That said the Slate looks nice in the videos and I certainly prefer the usb port vs being shackled to iTunes with my iPad.