'Nokia Technologies' Formed, Dishes Out Android Tablet

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  • red77star
    Good for Nokia. Microsoft have Lumia brand but knowing Microsoft they are not going to do anything with it and eventually will die. I hope Nokia frees themselves from Microsoft fingers and do their own thing with Android powered devices. I am sure I will be buying Nokia products in the future.
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  • soldier45
    As usual the third world countries get the goods before the US. I miss the old days when we got the newest stuff first.
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  • gbair
    I'm hoping Nokia gets back into the smartphone arena by that time, especially with the move to Android. I like the sturdy feel of their phones, can't think of what else to replace my Lumia 1020 with.
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  • unksol
    As usual the third world countries get the goods before the US. I miss the old days when we got the newest stuff first.

    Since when are China, Russia, and Europe the "third world"? For that matter how many people in third world countries have $249 to spend on a tablet? Just... wow.

    You send your product where it will sell and the US is a largely saturated market.
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  • ferooxidan
    Finally! The reign of the king will be back in time. I've been waiting for the real Android device for so long. I always know that a Android device coming solely from Nokia would be awesome. I think the deal with Microsoft is a good deal for Nokia, because M$hit never do something right if it is not their main product. Kiss those WP good bye and hello "real" Android devices. You should have jumped in Android bandwagon from the start, Nokia.
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  • InvalidError
    14615387 said:
    As usual the third world countries get the goods before the US. I miss the old days when we got the newest stuff first.
    Vendors do not want to undermine their high-margin North-American sales too much - most comparable devices in NA cost twice as much if not more.
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  • Bloob
    Similar form factor: a thin aluminum slab with a 4:3 display, and that's pretty much where the similarities end. Nexus 9 looks more like an iPad, but it's different aspect ratio.

    The N1 seems to be very well priced, and if it ever comes to northern Europe, I'll get it.
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  • Flying-Q
    Similar form factor: a thin aluminum slab with a 4:3 display, and that's pretty much where the similarities end. Nexus 9 looks more like an iPad, but it's different aspect ratio.

    The N1 seems to be very well priced, and if it ever comes to northern Europe, I'll get it.
    It took fewer similarities for Apple to successfully sue Samsung over the Tab10 in Europe and USA
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  • silverblue
    "Third World" is a term that originally meant a neutral, non-aligned country within the context of defining the sides during the Cold War. It's only therafter that it started being misused as a way of defining developing countries, whilst at the same time ignoring the fact that there was a "Second World" to begin with.

    Ireland is a good example to use here - third world, but developed.
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  • qlum
    Quite interesting to see that Nokia showed firefox in its homescreen, not a lot of android devices use firefox as their default browser. Personally as a firefox user I do like this although the mobile version of firefox fails pretty hard on the costumization department.
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