News about Nokiacell
Nokia is building a Windows 8 tablet. While plenty of other companies will likely follow suit, the Finnish company’s position is unique. In smartphones, Nokia is the only vendor that even has a chance of taking the fight to the iPhone using the Windows Phone platform. So it only follows that it’s also the only vendor to take the tablet fight in the same direction by adopting Windows 8. Most of the usual suspects for Windows tablets are also likely to be pushing Android alternatives, so Nokia may be the company funneling all its efforts into Windows 8.
Since we actually don’t know anything about the product, let’s imagine what it would take to build a winning Windows 8 ARM tablet.
Windows 8
As just a tablet, or a more traditional ARM notebook on steroids, I doubt this product would be very interesting. But as a transforming product, one that had a detachable keyboard like the Asus Transformer Prime, it would have some intrigue. You see, even though the ARM version of the product will not run Windows 7 programs, it will ship with an embedded version of the key Office applications rewritten for ARM. This means, unlike the x86 version, no changing interfaces and an experience much closer to the iOS and Android today, but with far better productivity built in. That means you could actually live on this product with a keyboard.
AMOLED or Mirasol transflective display
Nokia is building a Windows 8 tablet. While plenty of other companies will likely follow suit, the Finnish company’s position is unique. In smartphones, Nokia is the only vendor that even has a chance of taking the fight to the iPhone using the Windows Phone platform. So it only follows that it’s also the only vendor to take the tablet fight in the same direction by adopting Windows 8. Most of the usual suspects for Windows tablets are also likely to be pushing Android alternatives, so Nokia may be the company funneling all its efforts into Windows 8.
Since we actually don’t know anything about the product, let’s imagine what it would take to build a winning Windows 8 ARM tablet.
Windows 8
As just a tablet, or a more traditional ARM notebook on steroids, I doubt this product would be very interesting. But as a transforming product, one that had a detachable keyboard like the Asus Transformer Prime, it would have some intrigue. You see, even though the ARM version of the product will not run Windows 7 programs, it will ship with an embedded version of the key Office applications rewritten for ARM. This means, unlike the x86 version, no changing interfaces and an experience much closer to the iOS and Android today, but with far better productivity built in. That means you could actually live on this product with a keyboard.
AMOLED or Mirasol transflective display
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