Nokia’s future seems brighter alongside Microsoft, and the Lumia 800 shows that they can still make great phones – things are that much better they might planning a foray into the risky tablet market in 2012.
Apparently the new tablet will be brought to market by next summer, and will run on Microsoft’s, yet to be released, Windows 8 software.
The director general of Nokia France let the info slip in an interview on Wednesday. It’s not the first time we’ve heard of Nokia tablet, Paul Amsellem told French business publication Les Echos: “In June 2012, we will have a tablet running on Windows 8.”
There’s no word on when the Microsoft operating system will be released but it is expected to land sometime in 2012 and has been built with tablets in mind.
Nokia is hoping its new deal with Microsoft will secure the future of the company and might want to capitise on this new found stability by entering the incredibly competitive tablet market.
Microsoft is spending hundred of millions trying to achieve third spot for its mobile operating system alongside Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. They reportedly paid Nokia more than $1bn to commit to using Windows Phone for its new range of smartphones, including the Lumia 800, which went on sale in Europe on Wednesday.
But, the tablet market is a difficult one to crack, Blackberry have only shipped 700,000 of its much maligned Playbook, and HP threw in the towel after just 48 days, can we really expect Nokia to be any different?
A spokeswoman for Nokia said: “The remarks were taken out of context. A simple example was taken to mean more than intended. Nokia do not comment on speculation or rumours and at the moment we are all concentrating on the Lumia 800 which went on sale this week.”
A Nokia Chief Executive did speak highly of the incoming operating system and last months Lumia launch, he said: “The user experience of Windows 8 is essentially a supercharged version of the Nokia Lumia experience that you saw on stage today.
“And you see the parallels and opportunity for commonality from a user perspective. You say wow, this is more than just smartphones, there’s a broader opportunity here. And clearly we see that broader opportunity as well, without specifically commenting on what that may mean in the future
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