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Nokia Chief Designer confirms Tablet development
Marko Ahtisaari, a design chief at Nokia has allegedly confirmed that Nokia are looking to enter the fray and pit their very own tablet presumably running Windows 8 against the other most established tablets. He said that they are currently working on a tablet which he apparently spends a third of his time on.
Rumours suggest that Nokia’s tablet powered with Windows 8 would launch sometime in the 4th quarter of 2012.The information came from unnamed sources that are described as upstream component suppliers who further mentioned that Nokia’s foray into the tablet world will further intensify the competition among non-iPad tablet vendors. Nokia also believes that people like to own adjacent devices of the same type for a synchronized and generally similar experience (e.g Macbook, iPad and iPhone) so to not venture into the tablet world would prove foolish.
What might make all this possible is the excellent relationship between Microsoft and Nokia which revolved around the Windows Phone which replaced the Symbian OS and other homegrown platforms. As far as we can make out, the rationalization to come out with a tablet seems to be accurate and as any true consumer of technology would know, when there’s more competition, the consumers end up the winners. Would you be one of those who would purchase a Windows 8 tablet? Do let us know why as well.
Now here is an interesting leaked render of what is allegedly known as the Nokia C1, which is supposed to be the next smartphone which will feature the Nokia logo – never mind the fact that the Finnish company had already sold its smartphone business to Microsoft some time back. Well, the most interesting aspect about this leaked render would be the fact that it sports an Android operating system on the foreground, while another model hiding behind it looks as though it runs on Windows 10 Mobile.
Does this mean that we will have to face not one, but two variants of the same device? Only time will be able to tell, but for the moment, it will be an agonizing wait until 2016 as that is when the alleged Nokia C1 smartphone will launch then.
So, you happen to be rocking to one of the older Lumia handsets from Nokia, and would love to check out what all the hoo-haa is about concerning Windows 10 Mobile. If you happen to live in Poland, then here is a spot of good news for you to kick start your week – the Windows 10 Mobile update will be heading to the likes of the Lumia 630, 635, 640, 735, and 830 this coming December 14, whereas those who happen to be making use of the Lumia 520, 532, 625, 720, 820, 920, 925, 930, 1020, and 1320, will have to wait until February 1st next year.
Again, bear in mind that the Windows 10 Mobile update will only affect those smartphones which were purchased from Orange in Poland, so if you happen to own any of the above mentioned devices but from different people, then you would have to give the updates a miss.
A quick look at the calendar shows that we are still in March – early March, in fact, and April is still some ways of. Still, this has not stopped the fact that an alleged leak of a Nokia 1100 has been benchmarked, and in that particular benchmark, it revealed that the Nokia 1100 would sport Android 5.0 Lollipop as the mobile operating system version of choice – how cool would that be if it were to be true?
Other hardware specifications in the alleged leaked benchmark sheet point to a quad-core MT6582 processor which has been clocked at 1.3GHz, a 720p resolution display, and most probably 512MB RAM. We would take this bit of information with more than just a pinch of salt – perhaps and entire tablespoonful.