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Nokia Introduces Windows Tablet
jones_supa sends this news from The Verge:
"Rumored for a long time, Nokia's Windows tablet has finally been released. Microsoft might be buying Nokia's device business, but for the next few months they're going to be battling it out as competitors for Windows-based tablet market share. The new Lumia 2520 tablet is everything you'd expect from Nokia; it comes with a very bright and colorful full HD 10.1" display and it looks just like a supersized version of a Lumia series Windows Phone. Other Nokia signatures are a high-quality camera and maps which work reliably offline too. Inside there's a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, and the word is that Windows RT 8.1 runs great. It's responsive and multitasking apps seems just as good as the Surface 2. Because this is Windows RT you also get access to the desktop Office apps as part of this device. At that point the real Surface-like keyboard and trackpad become useful, alongside two USB ports. Estimated battery life is of 11 hours, which is increased when the cover is attached."
Can programmers really not manage to present two different ways of presenting information.
They could, if the web had been designed to separate content from presentation. Then different devices could display the same information in whatever form they thought best.
Oh, hang on, that's what HTML was supposed to do in the first place, until 'web designers' decided they needed the page to look exactly the way they wanted it to look.
Even if it looks great, its still Windows RT.
So they have written off the business market, leaving only the home user market, but anyone who wants a tablet that is incompatible with everything else has already bought an ipad. If the same hardware could dualboot Android, they might have something, but RT destines it for the dustbin of history.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
The fact is is 3 times as expensive as new Nexus 7 ....
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to compare it with a Nexus 10 at $499 than with a 7" tablet? I have a Nexus 7 and I like it fine but it's not a 10" tablet (Also have a Xoom) by any stretch.
You really think anybody cares about that overflow of cheap Chinese Android tablets. Get a clue.
Ironically the iPad is famously a cheap tablet with an expensive price. Its their entire business model, they are the largest company by "market cap" because of this (more to do with market manipulation nowadays but still) They famously make the iPad in foxconn the company with worker riots and suicide nets. They even laughed at the president for suggesting they make them in America...Motorola and Samsung both manufacture in America.
Is that large enough of a clue ;)
Well I can only speak for myself, but for me those sizes solve two very different issues and have very different but slightly overlapping use cases. If I have to choose, I want a 10" because it has (based on the Xoom vs the Nexus 7) vastly better usability and somewhat better battery life (probably bigger battery) but if I can have both (I do) then the 7" will fit in some of my pockets and is nicer to carry day to day. Which looks a lot like different but overlapping markets, buddy. ;) In any case, Google sells a model that more closely approximates the specs of the Nokia, and that model is the $499 Nexus 10. You can argue that all people seem to want is a Ford Focus and there is "one car market", but when Ferrari makes the 458 it's silly to insist on comparing them rather than comparing the Ferrari and maybe an Aston Martin.
Dude, it's a Microsoft phone running the second most reviled OS (Second to Unity) there is, the OS with no market share at all. Windows 8 killed Nokia the company, Microsoft owns it now.
If Nokia had gone with Android rather than Windows years earlier they may have stayed solvent.
This phone won't dominate anything. The iPad is the one to beat? This won't beat the Android with the lowest sales, let alone the iPad.
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I think *ALL* computers running walled garden OSs where execution must be approved by a single entity are offensively stupid.
Neither would I consider purchasing such an expensive device without a user replaceable battery. Batteries still suck and there is still enough variance during manufacturing and use it is still very much luck of the draw what you'll get.
There is no useful technical reason for locking down execution and planned obsolescence (dead battery = dead device) other than screwing over customers.
In this way I hate the new Nokia and Windows RT bullshit as much as I hate Apples ipad bullshit.
It really is quite a depressing situation... the hardware guys continue to kick ass while software guys seem to be spending all their time picking their noses, fiddling with UX and carefully apportioning value such that none dare be left on the table.