New HP Slate Video Rubs Flash Support in Apple’s Face
March 8th, 2010 by Dana Wollman 
I’m sensing a pattern here. After Steve Ballmer showed off a mysterious HP tablet during his CES keynote, HP released more details in late January, on the eve of the Apple iPad’s debut. Today, as the world re-watches the first iPad commercial, which aired during last night’s Oscars, HP is again showing off the Slate, this time running Adobe Flash.
In a five-minute promotion video, helmed by Adobe and HP, the Slate is on display, playing videos from sites such as MTV and running AIR apps, such as a New York Times app, complete with crossword puzzles.
While the Flash playback is smooth and useful, making it a not-so-subtle argument against the forthcoming iPad, the onscreen keyboard looks cramped compared to the iPad’s, and doesn’t take advantage of the entire width of the screen. The good news is that HP seems to have been tweaked the Windows 7 UI a bit to include touch-friendly shortcuts to apps.
Intrigued? Check out Adobe and HP’s walk-through video, along with a short HP promo reminiscent of Apple’s ad.
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March 8th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
It’s only PC with Windows.
March 10th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
It looks nice actually. Obviously its thicker than the iPad, and will likely weigh more. Have to see how much and whether that impacts its usefulness as a tablet (ie. gorilla arm). Also of course the screen better be as good as the iPad’s. The crappy ones on other low end devices like the Lenovo S10-3t just don’t work at any angles other than straight on. I’m getting a little tired of HP’s slow dribble of news about the thing. It sure looks like its ready to sell right now–why isn’t it coming out for another six months again?