Hewlett-Packard Takes on Apple, Samsung With New Slate 7 Tablet
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Hewlett-Packard Co., an also-ran in the mobile-device business, unveiled a 7-inch consumer tablet today in its second attempt to break into the growing market as demand wanes for desktop computers and laptops.
The Slate 7, introduced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, runs on Google Inc.’s Android operating system and will go on sale in the U.S. in April with a planned starting price of $169. It will be the first in a line of new consumer products that Hewlett-Packard will start selling this year, said Alberto Torres, a former Nokia Oyj executive brought in to run the computer maker’s mobility unit.