Nokia chief says Windows 8 tablets are an interesting opportunity

9th November, 2011 by adina
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Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, said, during an interview at Nokia World, that a Windows 8 tablet would be well received. He did not comment his company’s strategy but told the Financial Times that Microsoft’s desktop operating system was an “interesting opportunity”. Both the new Lumia phones and Windows 8 share the same basic tile-based interface and therefore the success of Windows 8 tablets is supposed to draw attention to Windows Phone.

Elop said that when one sees the user experience from Nokia’s Lumia environment appearing on many hundreds of millions of PCs and tablets, it becomes clear that a synergy exists between both environments.

The Finnish-based company is not a newcomer in the world of tablets. It was one of few companies putting a mobile operating system on a tablet through the Maemo-based N800 and N700 models. Nokia has kept itself completely outside of competition when the iPad era began. However, the company had plans that included two design patents that may not be finalized as shipping hardware. Elop resisted pressure to involve the company in the competition and said he would do this only if Nokia could be unique.

There would certainly be some risks for Nokia in moving to Windows 8 for an eventual tablet, mainly when it would not be unique and would have to compete with devices coming from Dell, Hewlett Packard and others. Nokia’s last attempt related to a Windows PC was the Booklet 3G, which was well built but could not compete against netbooks with similar features but including cheaper parts that helped them cost significantly less.


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