HP Opal and Topaz tablet PC will sport touchstone, Beats audio and tap-to-share

By this time, all of you should know that HP is going to launch two tablet PCs with 9-inch and 7-inch display and the products will be unveiled on February 9, 2011.The tablet devices will be commonly known as “HP Touchpad” revealed from a trademark filing of HP. Both the devices would sport a 1.2GHz processor.

A recent leaked picture of the tablet PCs revealed that they would not have any physical buttons and will have a front-facing camera, a micro-USB port, and three speakers enabling users to enjoy audio in both landscape and portrait orientation.

They will also feature wireless inductive charging technology called “Touchstone.” The back of the tablet PC sports a glossy material indicating the possibility of a large “Touchstone charger.” It is a wireless charging dock that would convert the tablet into an alarm clock, digital photo frame and GPS unit.

The 7-inch device called Opal will be released in September in three flavors- WiFi-only, AT&T 3G, and Verizon LTE. Another version supporting the AT&T LTE would be launched in July 2012. The Opal tablet PC measuring 180mm x 144mm x 13mm will sport a TFT LCD display with a resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixel. It will be a reading focused device.

The 9-inch Topaz tablet will be released in March will measure 241mm x 190mm x 13mm almost the same size as iPad.

The tablet PCs will feature HP’s Beats audio processing and would offer cloud storage facilities allowing users to save and run their documents on any device.

Another feature called “Tap-to-Share” would allow users to transfer, a website, document or song from their phones to their tablet devices by simply tapping on the two devices together.

Other features include Flash support, answering your phone calls from tablet PC (Phone-to-tablet communication), accessing your music library via Wi-Fi or 3G and running twenty apps simultaneously.

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