HP informs everyone there is no system recovery image for the Slate 21. I really wouldn’t much care about the contortions I’d have to do re-orienting the unit, either. I could read the smallest text without pinch-zoom. This XDA Developers thread is tracking rooting progress.Īs this thread at XDA Developers reveals, at one time it was possible to force the Slate 21 to do portrait but HP pushed out an update that causes that method to fail and this is the sorry result:īeing able to force portrait correctly would make The American Magazine look spectacular at that size.
There’s no rooting method known yet - because HP re-wrote the bootloader(!) - but this is a preliminary step: Unlocking your HP Slate 21.
One fellow has written about his experiences owning a Slate 21 at his blog. Issues of The American Magazine would probably look stunning on it. If my estimates are correct, this should display a magazine page from Google Books at just about the same size as its printed edition. What makes this something I must see in person is the screen size. I didn’t think anything about that at the time but it apparently sank into my brain and then bubbled to the surface, so I had to go investigate. Neither pointed out the browser problems that PC Mag did, however.Ī Commenter pointed out to me how close in price this is to the HP Slate 8 Pro. And, very surprisingly, The Register didn’t condemn it either. However, others have given it as high as 2.5 stars out of five, such as Tom’s Guide.
So I dismissed it after reading a devastating review at PC Mag that gave it one star out of five. They crippled that powerful Tegra 4 by shackling it to just 1GB of RAM and a stingy and unbelievable 8GBs of internal storage! Unfortunately, HP seems to be keen to release products no one in their right mind would buy. It’s a desktop replacement by itself, not some bizarre Android add-on to a Windows 8 box. Unlike the others, it has a full HD - 1920 x 1080 - touchscreen, an up-to-date CPU (Tegra 4), and is meant to be a replacement for that nasty and ancient Windows box that causes people to rip out their hair for its slowness (OK, that last bit was me projecting onto everyone else but still, I can’t be alone - this is why tablets are selling more than Windows). There have been several large Android slates released - from Asus and Acer and Lenovo - but none of them seem as appealing as the HP Slate 21.
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