Posted on Thursday, November 17 2011 @ 21:26 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
ARS Technica
writes Nokia plans to release a Windows 8 tablet in June 2012:
In an interview with French newspaper Les Échos, Paul Amsellem, head of Nokia France, said that the company would have a tablet running Windows 8 in June 2012.
As is typical with this kind of comment, Nokia PR's official line is "we have not announced any specific plans as it relates to tablets"; nonetheless, it seems more likely than not that Nokia will be making Windows 8 tablets.
That Nokia is planning to build a Windows 8 tablet is not surprising. Talking to Bloomberg earlier this year, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that Windows 8 will "change the dynamics" of the tablet market, and that there was a "new tablet opportunity coming." Though he did not announce any plans to produce a tablet at the time, he certainly didn't rule it out either.
