While Apple has been selling in hundreds of thousands of iPad units over the course of this past week the competition hasn’t been wasting any time. The main adversary of the iPad, is, at least until Microsoft decides to make its own Courier official, the HP Slate which has been first mentioned at CES 2010.

You already knew that, didn’t you? But what you don’t know is that today more details about the HP Slate have been leaked and they include specs, features and prices. HP seems to call Apple’s tablet and raise it with multitasking, Flash support and more.

We don’t know if any of the following is to be 100% accurate but it is said that everything has been leaked, intentionally or unintentionally from HP. According to the leak in question, the HP Slate will retail for around €400 or about $546 depending on conversion rates, in Europe. Should we assume U.S. consumers will get it for $400? We did hear that the HP tablet will be cheaper than the iPad, didn’t we?

The tablet should be available this summer, at some point around June, although an official launch date is not presently available. Should the Slate really be announced in June then we will probably see it in stores by September so the iPad will have plenty of time to prove itself in a market where its main competitors are yet to become official.

And here’s what’s supposed to be inside this iPad competitor: netbook-like Intel Atom processor, Flash support, USB connectivity, webcam, memory card reader and multitasking-capable Windows 7 running in the background. In other words, the tablet HP is currently working on seems ready to offer you pretty much everything that the iPad won’t. Does that sound exciting or what?

Assuming all these leaks and rumors will prove to be right later this year, the only question I’d like to ask HP right now is what are they doing when it comes to content for the Slate? Rumors regarding eBooks, apps and anything else they’ll want to throw us would be most welcomed. So what do you say, HP?

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