Hewlett-Packard announced the new Slate 2 tablet with the Windows 7 OS. The Slate 2 tablet has an 8.9-inch capacitive touch display and is an update to the company's first tablet, the Slate 500, which was released last year. Targeted at businesses, the Slate 2 includes faster hardware including Intel's Atom Z670 processor. HP was able to drop the tablet's starting price to USD699 (Rs. 34,600 approx.) by making a configuration available with just 32GB storage. That version also includes Wi-Fi and Windows 7 Home Premium. The Slate 2 will become available worldwide in November. This is the first tablet announced by HP after the company said it would keep its Personal Systems Group, which deals in smartphones, tablets and PCs. HP was offering the Slate 500 tablet when it said it would sell or spin off PSG, and subsequently killed the TouchPad tablets and Palm smartphones with WebOS. The Slate 2 also has security and management features so system administrators can remotely manage the device. Data on the tablet can be remotely wiped in case of theft, and HP is bundling Absolute Software's Computrace Pro, which helps track lost tablets. The tablet's chip also includes Trusted Platform Management, a hardware-based cryptography and authentication technology. Also offered is a tool for system administrators to deploy a standardized software image across hundreds of tablets. The tablet has Intel's latest mobile processor, the single-core Atom Z670, which runs at a clock speed of 1.5GHz. The Z670 has accelerators to decode 1080p video, and Intel has said the chip can work with Android 3.0, which is code-named Honeycomb. HP declined to say if the tablet would be offered with Android 3.0. HP will compete with Dell, which last week announced the Windows 7-based Latitude ST tablet, and Cisco, which offers the Android-based Cius tablet. Apple's iPad is the top enterprise tablet today, and is being used to access email, calendars, the Web and corporate documents. Visit as on Omnifuzz or FastFind
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