Nokia is very proud of it's N1 tablet design "Side by side we are better than the iPad mini. We beat them, on every single feature . . . It's really a product you would expect out of Nokia. It is the thinnest device we have ever designed."
But the reality is that it looks very similar to the iPad Mini and it will be built, marketed and sold by Foxconn; the Chinese giant who knows very well how to built Apple products to a high standard.
The design by Nokia isn't the most interesting aspect of this 7.9" Android tablet. That Foxconn will market and sell it itself is. The OEM licenses the name Nokia but is supposed to handle all the rest. A move similar to Acer in the past: slowly getting away from building other people's products.
Specs etc on http://n1.nokia.com/ Expected price $250 / 250 Euro #Tech
I'll be grabbing one #N1 for Xmas. #Nokia should have done this step towards #android way back instead of wasting time with MS. Never too late 😉 Kudos +Nokia
i find it looks just like the developer edition samsung galaxy tab given away at google io 2012. apple copied the styling of that when they revamped the ipad line a year ago.
Haven't phablets all but killed the "mini tablet" market already? I mean, why? For children's toys? There's not much money to make in that low cost market – or is there?
+Per Siden maybe, maybe not. Geeks seem to move to small phone (e.g. the very nice Moto G) combined with a tablet like the Nexus 7 instead of using a phablet. The Moto G is fully sufficient as a smart phone and a Nexus 7 (or may Nexus 9 sooner or later) is better for compute tasks.
You would be surprised at the difference in actual screen size between even a 6" phablet and a 7.9" tablet +Per Siden
Your door is probably not 4:3 aluminium frame with glass +Scott Wilson unless you have a custom built barn door 😉
I very much love my 2nd generation Nexus 7 tablet, but this Nokia N1 looks like a better successor than the Nexus 9!
And with Google Play store & apps confirmed on the N1, this is almost a no-brainer at the price of €250 !
I wrote several posts about the design patent claims by Apple +Scott Wilson
Yes, Apple did not invent the rectangle, they did not invent gorrilla glass. However, they made a tablet product 15 years after Microsoft, Intel and others had tried to fob us off with rectangular lumps.
I'm still waiting for Microsoft Courier! – http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/11/killing-courier-the-right-decision-maybe-not-the-right-reasons/ (It did not have e-mail)
Its not the rectangle but how it (and the user focused experience) was put together!
+Scott Wilson I feel you are missing the point, it is the design, not the tablet. In terms of style, the N1 looks like an iPad mini. No where in this post did it say apple invented anything.
+Scott Wilson did you get dropped on your head? Also are you blind?
Cause you don't seem to get the point.
Seeing as how apple appears to be ditching the iPad mini, I will be keeping a close eye on this
Holy that Intel 64bit atom z3580 CPU is a beast…. 64bit quad, I would have wished for 3gb of ram how ever… Tablets should have more ram so you can multitask a little smoother…. Still that price along with build is simply amazing
+Nic_Nak_Nic if it could boot windows….
DWL +Max Huijgen. Would stick to android.
+Max Huijgen If it could boot Ubuntu.
After the disappointment of shield tablet I may give this one a try. Just when I swore off android tablets :/ o well
For a moment I thought you wished me 'Dramatic Weight Loss; +dawn ahukanna 😉
But yes, I would consider it if it ran W10. Essentially I don't really know what to do with Android on a tablet. I already have an A phone
Now I'm rolling on the floor +Max Huijgen. That's Hilarious. I'm
stealinger, borrowing that abbreviation.+Wesley Oman I think I may have just found the answer to your question.
Apple lawsuit in 5..4…
I can't see Apple moving back to a third party +Scott Wilson they still have headroom in their own CPU"s.
+Per Siden
Yep totally agree …I ditched my Tablet when I got my first 5.5in Google Android Smartphone 2yrs ago.
I think Nokia had a large say in the design and hardware specs. It's a "licensing" deal only in the sense that Nokia gets paid a flat fee and royalty of each unit, whether or not Foxconn sells enough for it to be financially worthwhile for Foxconn – i.e., Foxconn bears the financial risks. I don't see Nokia just lending it's name for the sake of losing the value of that name (which is great, compared to Oppo, Xiaomai (Miu), HTC, ZTE, etc.). The fact that they are working with Foxconn, THE only manufacturer that can rival Samsung, speaks worlds about the quality of this "partnership." I'm just worried about contractual prohibitions with Microsoft, and lawsuits from Apple.
Think that it's good
I wonder if my ipad mini case can used on N1 ?
Wonder what's going to happen to the humans when technology is no longer available. I swear a majority will crawl in a corner and root.
no. wrong, hell everyone else doing it too. Nokia will remain a mobile king. period. Apple the computer Emperor if i spelled that right. lol but everyone else is definitely following suit
+Michael Ray *rot
I do think that Apple will go ballistic at Foxconn and I'd be surprised that we'll see this product outside China anytime soon. I'm not Apple's staunch supporter, esp where litigation goes, but equally there is something called registered design and design right (perhaps folk in the US call it copyright, patent, etc). I think somebody will be having very strong words with the chief manufacturing partner…
Making a straight up copy of iPad mini will only attract Android users that secretly love Apple designs.
+Petr Faitl
Problem being iPad as with iPhones are produced in China.
Hmmm China has the technology..
When you have Samsung supplying Apples Chip Sets as they do now…well exactly how much of an Apple product is an Apple product ???
+Dan K
That's funny …
+Aldin Shata, processor distributors for mobile devices are not fully focusing on having the fastest one. It's also about optimization and utilization. Apple technically does not need the A8X when I highly doubt a majority of applications will use its full potential. Also, the A8X and NVIDIA K1 are tie when going at same clock speeds. Actually, the K1 can hit 950Mhz at 365 GFLOPS in which we are not sure how high the A8X can be clocked before being capped to keep from becoming a skillet.
+Aldin Shata , NVIDIA K1 is more a introduction of where they are going on their road-map. I'm sure NVIDIA has a plan for the K1 for future uses which include LAN and WAN game streaming.
Its nice but somewhat a little bit thicker and maybe youll have back to back touchscreen might look pretty much unique and interesting!
+Mike Cosmi You are so wrong!
+Mike Cosmi Why not
+Dylan Halliday
Gentlemen, I love a good cpu/gpu discussion, but no ad hominems please.
The A8x is mainly remarkable for its cpu which outperfoms competitors at a given power consumption. The custom PowerVR is not as exciting.
@Scott Wilson, I myself am a IT who keeps up with the latest and greatest tech both software and hardware. @Aldin Shata, had a point with the PowerVR technology as far as sustained processing. On the other hand the misconception: @Aldin Shata, the A8X when clocked at 300Mhz gets 115 GFLOPS which is about as high as it's going to clock on a tablet. The K1 can reach up to 950Mhz at get 365 GFLOPS before even considered over-clocked on a Jetson K1 kit. Also, developers will develop games in DirectX now that the hardware is there to justify and complement it. Just like DirectX 12 is being pushed now that consoles finally have the hardware (multicore CPU utilization) to justify it. PC suffered from better optimization because of previous consoles getting all their time and money. Thanks to a better API, PC will no longer have to suffer from being crippled and we can actually use all CPU cores "effectively" with our over-kill GPU. Phil Spencer does not want to admit DirectX 12 will help Xbox One more than expected because it would hurt Xbox One sales. I would not want to buy a console that was crippled by a aged API, for sure. I like the fact that Apple released their Metal API to developers way before the A8X was released with the current iPad so that they mature with it and get games in the App Store sooner. Microsoft screwed up by releasing a console not ready for the market with weaker hardware and no advanced API. Sony did their homework. Microsoft is always behind but never a dollar shorter.
this tablet will kill iPad haha