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Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1

Posted by timothy on from the serious-side-talkin' dept.

Esra Erimez writes It's been a little over a year since the announcement of Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Finnish tech veteran Nokia Oyj.'s Devices unit. A year later Chinese leaks site SINA Tech says Nokia is back and ready to compete against its former unit, suggesting it will launch in China on Jan. 7. As one commenter on the Daily Tech story points out (as does this ExtremeTech article from last month), the not-yet-launched N1, with its "one piece aluminum body, 7.9", 2048*1536, [and] 3:4 aspect ratio" looks an awful lot like the iPad mini, but costs quite a bit less.

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  1. Not that much less by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Informative

    The base iPad Mini 2 lists at $299 and was as low as $229 during recent sales; the N1 is launching at $249.

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    1. Re:Not that much less by stephanruby · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The base iPad Mini 2 lists at $299 and was as low as $229 during recent sales; the N1 is launching at $249.

      That's probably why the author of the article talked about the base iPad Mini 3, not the iPad Mini 2.

      The new Nokia N1 tablet, apparently. At just $250 with 32GB of storage — as opposed to the iPad Mini 3’s base price of $400 for the 16GB model — the Nokia N1 is definitely priced to sell.

      And yes, from Apple's own comparison page, there doesn't seem to be any difference between the iPad Mini 2 and the iPad Mini 3. But to be fair to Nokia, its specs are superior to the iPad Mini 2 and 3.

      And also, the Android tablets are the ones that initially embraced the 7 inch to 8 inch sizes, so one could say that Apple is the one that cloned those tablets from Asus, Samsung, HTC, and LG. But then again, a specs side-by-side comparison of Nokia's new tablet wouldn't look as good against the newer Android tablets made other manufacturers. Not to mention, the word "iPad" still has the most mind share, where it comes to people talking about tablets in general.

  2. Re:Whoa! No Windows RT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the part of Nokia that was not acquired by Microsoft.

  3. It's about Intel not Nokia by jphamlore · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What has flown over everyone's head, and it's really disheartening to see this, is this tablet product is likely much more about Intel than Nokia. Intel wants to keep some presence in tablets while it transitions from 22nm to 14nm at which point its products would be much more competitive. Furthermore Intel does not currently even fab its own wireless modems. Fortunately a tablet does not even need an LTE modem, has larger room for batteries, and fortunately Google has recently released Android 5.0 Lollipop with 64-bit support, great for the Atom Intel is using as a transitional product.

  4. Re:Looks an awful lot like the iPad mini by danbob999 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have never seen someone replace his tablet because it is made in plastic instead of aluminium. People replace their phone/tablet beacause it is too slow/old or because the display is broken. Aluminium frames do not protect the display any better.