“As for the TouchPad units that have been allegedly purchased with a version of Android on them, we have begun an internal investigation on this within HP,” writes Philip Robb of HP’s Open Source Program Office to cmtouchapd, a group attempting to develop a legitimate Android port for the TouchPad. “I cannot find a way to get the Android Market or download any Android applications onto the device,” he writes. The HP 7 Plus is available right now from HP.com.As you can see in the video below, the user, who says he bought the TouchPad at Best Buy, demonstrates what he assumes is a test device from Qualcomm. Now we'll see how a name brand tablet that is actually supposed to cost $99 does at a $99 price point. The demand for the $99 Touchpad was so high that HP actually did another manufacturing run to meet demand. With the Touchpad in mind, this move could be seen as a jump back into the $99 tablet game. This discontinuation, in addition to a lack of consumer demand for the $500 device, led to steep discounts, with HP eventually selling the Touchpad for a mere $99. Forty-nine days after its launch, the company ended all WebOS operations. When the iPad came along, HP's answer was to buy Palm and WebOS, an acquisition that led to the HP Touchpad. The company beat everyone to the punch by making several convertible Windows XP laptops, but they never really took off. HP has had a tough time in the tablet market. There's also no mention of Bluetooth or GPS, and the bezels look huge-but hey, it's $100. The biggest downside HP could have fixed at this price point is the software: it's only running Android 4.2.2. The HP 7 Plus has a 7-inch 1024圆00 IPS display, a 1GHz quad-core Cortex A7 processor (made by a company called "Allwinner"), 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, 802.11 b/g/n, a microSD slot, and a 2800 mAh battery. The 7-inch tablet is only $100.įor $100, you can't expect much of the spec sheet. While a bunch of mid-to-low range hardware is never that exciting, one way to catch our attention is to release a tablet at a super-low price. With the HP 7 Plus, the company is looking to do just that.
When we wrote about Hewlett-Packard's last set of Android tablets in December, we said that they did little to stand out.
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