During today’s Nokia announcement regarding profits and sales, the Finnish giant’s CEO, Stephen Elop made a remark that may refer to a future tablet with Windows 8 made by this Nordic firm. He said that the partnership with Microsoft might soon extend beyond just phones. Meanwhile, if you’re interested in figures, know that Nokia lost almost a billion euros in Q4 2011, that means almost $1.3 billion.
Also, they sold 31% less smartphone in the same time frame. Windows Phone still appears like a great perspective for the Finns, considering the 1+ million devices with this OS they’ve sold, included in the Lumia series. Moving on from that area, it’s not the first time I’ve heard someone connected to Nokia detailing a possible future tablet, since there was at some point an insider saying that we shoudl expect a slate made by the Finns to be unveiled during this summer’s Nokia Connection event.
The tablet will run Windows 8 and I’m sure it will integrate the Lumias perfectly into the experience and the Xbox consoles as well. At some point during his speech, Stephen Elop said that Microosft has a certain consisteny of user experience, on PCs, tablets and phones and also mentioned the option to get involved in “a larger play”. I guess that Nokia won’t start making PCs, so tablets is the next best thing. The rumors about the Windows 8 Nokia tablet were started when the Nokia France director Paul Amsellem said that the company is working on such a product. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see…
