“Nokia’s design head Marko Ahtisaari confirmed in an interview that the company was developing a tablet. Without saying what it involved, he promised Kauppalehti Optio that it would be unique in a sea of would-be iPad rivals. The device was important enough that it was consuming a third of Ahtisaari’s time,” Electronista reports.
“Nokia’s tablet is believed to be a Windows 8 design using a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core chip. [According to Reuters, it is expected to be released later this year]. If true, it would depend almost exclusively on Metro-based apps and wouldn’t have access to legacy or traditionally designed Windows apps,” Electronista reports. “Apart from using Microsoft’s new OS, it’s uncertain what Nokia would do to create a significantly different experience than other Windows tablet supporters.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wow, a whole third of his time! We can’t wait to see it.
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Ships with a return label.
Nice!!
The new class of ‘Tablet’ is the ‘Boomerang Tablet.’ Its life cycle is ship, sell, return. After seeing the reviews of the 3rd Gen iPad its a no brainer that no one else will come close regardless of spec if it doesn’t have a Retina display. Apple has the entire market for Retina displays currently. Apple is alone in the iPad market. I guess their only competition is the Kindle Fire-‘the original Boomerang Tablet.’ 🙂
“Ships with a return label.”…lol, good one.
ALL merchandise from the HSN (Home Shopping Network) ships with a return label. Especially the recently advertised Motorola Xoom™ 10.1 inch LCD, Dual-Core 32GB SSD Wi-Fi Tablet with Android 3.1 (upgradable to 4.0).
A whole third of his time? Wow. When it ships and fails he can’t even say it was a “half” arse effort!
Lol ^
In re the MDN headline: What’s a “relase?”
It’s a typo. It should be “resale”…
Correction: Nokia killer
The iPhone did most of the work already.
I finally figured out what “nokia” means in Finnish: “comic relief.”
Either that, or it’s an English cognate.
Unless these “iPad Killers” come with the equivalent of a Retina Display they are DOA. And who else in the industry is that far along with display technology? Apple set the bar even higher this time and left the iPad 2 in place to pick up the crumbs.
I’ve heard quite a few commenters say that a HD display on a tablet is useless because the display is too small. They’d prefer that Apple lowered the iPad’s price $200, then they’d be interested. Besides, increasing the resolution of an iPad is a waste of time because you still can’t do anything with it like you could with a Windows 8 tablet. Something about all tablets should have a desktop OS running “real applications”.
How can a person get any work done if they can’t multitask a half dozen programs on a tablet? A Windows 8 tablet can multitask a dozen programs for superior work flow. That’s what consumers really need. Try doing that with a new iPad.
/s
+1
Seriously? If so, you and janeshepard are obviously clueless.
Ralph, the tag /s means sarcasm, don’t you know…
Ralph is obviously clueless.
Isn’t sarcasm supposed to speak for itself? 😳
Some people really do need the sarcasm tag. Rabid fanboys bite first and ask questions later.
Rabid be rabid sarcasm be wasted on rabids
MS’s Metro interface has been a total failure on their smart phones. I mean seriously if this UI was great people would have started buying phones with it!
Why MS is hell bent on slapping this failure on everything is beyond me.
If I were a CEO of any company the last thing I would do is put my hopes on Windows 8 with Metro. I’d look at the phone sales and say “Uh yeah why do we want this on a tablet again?”
Nokia would have a better chance at trying to use WebOS at this point.
It is going to be an epic blunder. I can’t wait to watch the train wreck.
MS’s Metro interface will be a total failure on their PCs. A whole category of “my dad trying Windows 8” videos have cropped up, showing experienced users of Windows of various releases fumbling with Win8.
Here is blogger Chris Pirillo’s dad trying Win8; his takeaway: “Are they trying to drive me to Macs?”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU&w=560&h=315%5D
lol. thank-you that is an awesome video.
I love that part where he says “I don’t know… click on the fish? No that didn’t do it”
DOI – Dead on Inception
General Heth, scoffing at General Pettigrew’s warning that Yankee cavalry are present in the town of Gettysberg, is sending General Archer to retrieve the shoes his soldiers need.
The other shoe is about to drop.
Another apple killer i would love to invest money in one company that could actually deliver these disillusioned statements – nokia go back to being a paper company you might make more money
Look for shorter iPad lines now that Nokia has made this announcement. The whole world has been holding it’s breath while waiting for Windows 8 tablets to appear.
Laughing_Boy, you made me laugh!
Just as it had held its breath until the best-selling Lumias, running Windows Phone 7, were unveiled last October. The plaudits have been deafening since then.
Nokia is on a roll for sure. Oh, baby!
Maybe if they advertise free beer and pizza.
“Windows 8 Tablet – Designed with up to 33% of our attention and commitment!”
And they wonder why they can’t compete with Apple.
But…but…It can’t fail! Nokia will be bundling their killer app with this: Snake!
I have a copy of Snake for my Intellivision II, circa 1983
donkey.bas man.. thats the killer app.
oops… that one is not available on the Nokia, but its out for the iPad!
‘Beleaguered Nokia preps Windows 8 tablet ‘iPad killer’ for relase later this year.’
Gotta get me some ‘relase’.
+1
MDN, why can I not post under ‘Jean Poole’ any more??
“The device was important enough that it was consuming a third of Ahtisaari’s time.”
Which means Nokia expects to fail! Why? #1, they are 2 years late. #3, they are not used to providing ‘ecosystems’.
Apple owns the data ecosystem, not just the tablet. Consumers will judge NokiTab on the basis of a comparison with the Apple ecosystem.
If Nokia chose to be amongst the top 2 tablet players they better find someone to spend FULL TIME putting the whole ecosystem together. I don’t care where the pieces come from (ala Microsoft), but they damn well better be perfectly seamless.
Wow, Nokia is releasing a Windows 8 tablet BEFORE Windows 8 will be out? That’s amazing!
(Because you know Microsoft won’t have Windows 8 done in time, for those who don’t get the joke.)
MDN: typo.
Not ‘relase’
You meant ‘relaspe’
it would depend almost exclusively on Metro-based apps…
Doomed.
…and wouldn’t have access to legacy or traditionally designed Windows apps
One foot in the coffin.
NEXT ‘iPAD KILLER’ PLEASE!
While we wait… ♪ ♫ ♬ ♬ ♩
Nokia and microsoft – two old farts who think they’re hip and cool. Nobody buys the stupid windows lumia and no one will even bother to look at windows tablets.