Posted on Thursday, April 08 2010 @ 0:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Nokia
is reportedly planning to launch a new tablet device this Fall. The device is expected to be made around the new MeeGo operating system and in a partnership with Intel.
Nokia, oddly, was a tablet pioneer in the early 2000s with its N770 handheld Internet device. The product failed to take off. Then last year, Nokia flopped in the netbook market with its Booklet 3G.
But this time around, Nokia has regrouped around a new operating system called MeeGo and a partnership with chip giant Intel (INTC).
"Getting a strong Intel backing here could be an important advantage," says MKM Partners analyst Tero Kuittinen, who sees the Nokia tablet as part of an array of mobile computers.
