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There have been plenty of rumours regarding Nokia’s plans for a Windows 8 tablet knocking about over previous months, with the latest reports claiming a dual-core Snapdragon-powered Nokia tablet will arrive in Q4 of 2012.
The DigiTimes report claims the tablet will be a 10″ model, running on a dual-core Qualcomm processor — presumably the company’s new Snapdragon S4, which was shown running Windows 8 at CES in January. Or perhaps the even faster S4 Pro could be ready by then.
Despite Nokia staff previously mentioning a possible launch of a Nokia Widows 8 tablet by June, this latest report claims it’s more likely to happen at the end of 2012. Which seems a little more believable. [DigiTimes]
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Sounds like good news to me, from what I’ve seen of Windows 8 I think it’ll work quite well on a Tablet. It really depends on price and battery life.
I’d expect a price of approx £700 and I would want 8 hours of battery life. Anything cheaper and longer lasting would be a win for me.
I’d imagine seing as they’d be launching with ARM as opposed to an Intel based system that it’d be a lot cheaper than £700, and hopefully much closer to the iPads £399 range. I would pay more for a quality Lumia 800 inspired tablet though.
Opps, didn’t see that. You’re right in that case I would expect somewhere closer to £500.
They also need to sell a decent docking station, it would make using one of these for work much easier.
I’d have to agree with you there. A proper docking station could be a killer feature… and that’s where I think Asus might have some fantastic competition if/when they release a Windows 8 Transformer tab. They’ve nailed that from a design perspective.
I’m looking forward to seeing any W8 tablet – and I’m also wondering how Nokia is going to avoid being ‘me too’ when everyone else launches theirs….
The same way they’ve differentiated their Lumia line from the rest of the Windows Phones out there: design, quality and solid marketing.
I have a big soft spot for Nokia, I know them extremely well and I really want them to pick themselves up. I agree that the 800 looks and feels great and I’ll seriously consider the, say, ’900′ when it comes out. I’m waiting now mainly because my iPhone contract needs to run out and secondly to avoid any early adoption issues.
However, as far as I can see, there is only so much ‘design’ that can go into a tablet and if they are marketing solidly, I can’t say I’ve noticed it very much. Anyway, I’m not being negative about Nokia, if W8 on Tablet turns out to be as good as it appears then the iPad (and possibly iPhone) will be replaced and Nokia will definitely be high on my shopping list, but so will some of the others; Nokia will be ‘me too’ whereas 5-6 years ago they were my No.1 choice.
I don’t think the iPad is getting replaced anytime soon, but it does seem like Windows 8 holds a better shot at entering the tablet space compared to anything Google has on the table right now. Windows 8 seem to have a good focus on productivity… and multitasking seems a lot more intuitive than the in-app/out-app behaviour that the iPad currently has.
That said, knowing Google and Apple this could easilly change before the end of the year, so let’s hope Microsoft gets moving.
Does a website exist that grades rumours and the sites that post them, posthumously for their accuracy? If not, why not?
Let’s get on it Darrell. You’re on to something. Anyone else want to join us? We’ll draft our plans up at the next Giz meetup.
I really think it would be a good idea to have such a site. We need a snappy name though, “craprumours” or “blogbollocks” or something like that.
Rumour_Scrap.com –
Sour_Rum.com –
Rumodo.com –
Rumour_mourner.com –
Rumour_Rut.com –
Rumour_Tumour.com -
Rumour_Tormenter.com -
Ruminater.com
Rumour_Rumble.com
Intertattle.com
Rumourvine.com
Webtattle.com
web_whisper.com
Thanks for the suggestions. The other big thing we need to do is work out the scoring system. Should a report claiming information “from Apple/Google/Microsoft insiders” score worse than “sources familiar with the matter” since they are claiming greater provenance for their information?
No – I would say a Rumour is a Rumour. People should be able to claim what they like. Rumour appeal should be based on the quality of the Romour and it’s strength of probability, inventiveness and wishfulness. I would try and come up with 5 points of scoring. With a Fact or Fail regarding each category.
If you invite people to add Rumours – you will get the equivalent of the Football Rumour Syndrome. “I have a mate who’s Mother cleans the toilets at Apple and she saw the latest iPhake device left in the crapper.”
This is bollocks but could score for inventiveness and wishfulness, fail for Zero probability. Something like that anyway.
True. We’ll have to come up with a way keep everything curated or edited in some way or another…