HP Pro Slate 12 Wins Race to Retail Ahead of Apple's Rumored iPad Pro

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A bigger size Android tablet with a Duet Pen

It's been rumored that Apple is going to come out with a 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet, but while iOS fans wait for that day, Android users have another large size option in the new HP Pro Slate 12, one of many mobile devices the company officially launched today. There's also a smaller 8-inch version (HP Pro Slate 8), both of which are powered by an Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 series processor and 2GB of RAM.
Comparisons on the web are being made to HTC's One M8 handset, only bigger. To be clear, these are tablets, and the main difference between the two (other than panel size) is resolution -- the 7.9-inch Pro Slate 8 sports a 2048x1536 resolution and the 12.3-inch Pro Slate 8 features a 1600x1200 panel (no, we don't have that backwards).
HP says the Pro Slate 8 is one of the first tablets to use Corning Gorilla Glass 4. In addition, both come with the HP Duet Pen, the first to use Qualcomm Snapdragon digital pen technology on both a tablet and regular paper. Other features include 32GB of internal storage, microSD card slot, micro USB 2.0 port, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, 2MP front-facing camera, 8MP rear-facing camera, and Android 4.4 KitKat.

The Pro Slate 12 starts at $569 and the Pro Slate 8 at $449.
HP also announced a handful of other tablets, including an 11.6-inch 2-in-1 Windows device (Elite x2 1011 G1), 8-inch Windows tablet powered by an Intel Atom processor (Pro Tablet 408 G1), and specialty tablets aimed at healthcare and environments where ruggedness is a priority.
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