HP Announces Its $100 Tablet – the HP 7 Plus

HP might have come in late in the game of Android tablets, but it’s making up for lost time by aggressively pricing its Android slates. Its latest product – the HP 7 Plus brings affordability into another level with a price tag of just a little over AU$100. The budget tablet runs on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and comes with an 1GHz quad-core…



HP might have come in late in the game of Android tablets, but it’s making up for lost time by aggressively pricing its Android slates. Its latest product – the HP 7 Plus brings affordability into another level with a price tag of just a little over AU$100.

The budget tablet runs on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and comes with an 1GHz quad-core ARM Cortex A7 processor, 1GB of DDR3 SDRAM and 8GB of internal storage that can be expanded using a microSD card.

The HP 7 Plus comes with a 7-inch WVA IPS display, a 0.3MP fixed focus camera at the front, a 2MP fixed focus at the rear and a 2800mAh Lithium polymer battery, which according to HP should last for 5 hours and 30 minutes.

The device will also have one microUSB 2.0 port, 1 integrated microphone, a 3.5mm headphone jack, an accelerometer and a mono speaker. HP is also throwing in 25GB of lifetime cloud storage from Box.

There’s no local launch date yet but the HP 7 Plus is already selling for US$99.99 in the US or roughly AU$107 before taxes.

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