Nokia Tablet: What would you design?
By Mike Browne on April 28,
 2011 at 00:00,

The Nokia Tablet could be coming to a store near you in the future. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop won't just have any old tablet hitting the stores and hoping to compete in a market that is already brimming with Me-Too products. So, the question is, what do you want to see from the Nokia Tablet design?

Where there's Beatles you're also likely to find Monkeys. This is an idea that where you find real innovators (The Beatles) you'll also find lesser talents (The Monkeys) having a go and Stephen Elop isn't content with the idea of Nokia releasing a tablet device that doesn't innovate.

In an interview over on Finnish site he said as much:

There are now over 200 different tablets on the marketplace, only one of them is doing really well. And, my challenge to the team is I don't wanna be the 201st tablet on the market that you can't tell from all of the others. We have to take a uniquely Nokia prospective and so the teams are working very hard on something that would be differentiating relative to everything else that's going on in the market.

Q. So you're not in a hurry?

We're always in a hurry to do the right things, but we're mostly in a hurry to do the right thing.

The great news is that Nokia has finally admitted it is looking at the Tablet market but  it sounds like we won't be getting one any time soon. So, the question is, what features does the Nokia Tablet need to make it a world-class device?

Now, we were always bigger Rolling Stones fans that The Beatles, so we'd like to see something a little more edgy than the current crop of Tablets out there, something that builds on traditional ideas and sends them off in a completely new and exciting way. So, the first question would be, what OS will it run, then there are the hardware issues to consider. Let us know you thoughts in the Comments below.

Via: YLE

  • Gary H

    The harsh answer might be – don’t bother

  • Sumesh Sreenivas

    1. Minimum 1.2 Ghz dual core processor
    2.windows 7 for mobile
    3.7″ disply
    4.3D graphics and UI
    5.Powerful Batry
    6. Integrated Social Networks
    7.Usb on the go
    8.12 mp (as in the n8)
    9.Ebook Readr from Nokia
    10.facility to lock/unlock the tablet using face detection

  • Sir Marky

    Not Windows! Please not more rubbish from Redmond.
    Stick with Meego and make it the best damn meego tablet on the planet.

  • pankaj sri

    hi
    i use N8 so i want some feature of nokia N8 in nokia tablet:
    1.12 mp carl zeiss camera
    2.carl zeiss secondary camera .
    4.more internal memory approx 64 gb and expandable memory
    5.better gorilla glasses.,waterproof.
    5.better touch scren

  • http://molbal.co.cc molbal

    Hello,
    My dream were a Symbian tablet, but I know its impossible.

    I would like tablet to be beautifully designed and made in two kinds of designs – one is N8 like with the special corners and one like the C7: really really slim)

    I also wish your tablets had gorrila glass front, high res screen and steel back, just like on the N8. – (Recycled, of course)

    I think this EDOF Symbian^3 kind camera would be better than a carl zeiss 12MP (because won’t take macro photos with a tablet)

    But the most important is to make the OS (anything will run on it) fast and responsive, like the Symbian^3 or MeeGo and not Symbian^1.

    I would also appreciate USB OTG (if it’s not Windows on it) and that professional video editor (framestone maybe) and nice photo editors.

    I hope you can use my feedback,
    Regards,
    molbal

  • s

    what about dual boot of meego and windows 7 is can separate nokia from rest 200 tablets out there

  • satya

    what about dual boot of meego and windows 7 is can separate nokia from rest 200 tablets out there

  • ;)

    My Nokia Tablet:
    - ARM Cortex-A9MP4+ 800 MHz with SGX544MP4+ GPU (or 543MP4+ if no-one bothers to manufacturer the other one). For those who don\’t know, Quad-Core CPU and Quad-Core GPU.
    - 11 inch 16:10 Multi-Touch Resistive Screen (2 Finger and 1 Pen Input) with .75 inch bezel either side and 0.5 inch top and bottom (though it seems big, its only 0.875 inches taller than the iPad and 0.2 inches wider, designed for two-handed landscape use more than single-handed portrait use)
    - MeeGo 1.2 OS
    - 1 GB RAM
    - 3 Multi-Use Micro-USB Ports (USB-on-the-Go, Charging, etc)
    - 7500 mAh Battery
    - Not too Thick (<15 mm with a curved back)
    - Lightweight, <500 g
    - WiFi a/b/g/n
    - Dual mode CDMA Ev-Do/UMTS (3G) device with pentaband HSDPA+ (3.75g) 42 MBps and LTE (3.9G)
    - Bluetooth 3.0 + HS
    - 1.3 MP Front Facing Camera and 5 MP Back Facing Camera with Carl Zeiss Lens both with 1080p video recording at 30 fps
    - A-GPS, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass/Magnetometer, Proximity Sensors, Ambient Sensor, Microphone, Stereo Loudspeaker
    - micro-SIM card port (I know it sounds crazy but its smaller than the mini-SIMs currently used, remember, once upon a time, SIM cards were the size of credit cards)
    - microSD upto 2TB (I know that this also sounds crazy but all it needs are drivers as long as it can support at least 64 GB microSD cards) in other words microSDXC
    - 32GB/64GB internal storage
    Different models:
    - Wifi-Only (32/64GB)
    - 3.5G (32/64GB) (has EDGE, CDMA, UTMS and HSPA)
    - 3.75/3.9G (32/64GB) (has EDGE, CDMA, UMTS, HSPA+, LTE) This can legally be branded as the 4G Tablet as other companies have done so.

  • ;)

    Correction: Dual-booted with latest MeeGo OS and Andriod Tablet OS available by October this year.

  • http://Abica.co.uk Joe Young

    For Nokia to break this Market I believe the price would have to be low enough for people to consider switching from IPad. This is not a Market Nokia will capture through style or a perception of quality.

    I would focus on a robust tablet with around a 9 inch screen. Good quality loud speakers and a genourous memory (around 60gig).

    If Nokia launch a tablet that can play flash, work withtorrent sites they would be onto a winner.

    Also may be an idea to push the gaming Market by manufacturing a plugin controller for a more enjoyable gaming experience,

    I think tablet gaming could be huge.

  • Paul C

    Run on an existing current OS (Symbian/WP7/Android)
    Be able to run Gtalk / MSN / SKYPE (with video) / Facebook / Twitter / Evernote (over httpS)
    Wifi b/g/n with WPA2 support
    OVi/Nokia maps + a-gps included –> BIG navigation
    Calendar synch with Gmail
    BIG battery
    Screen visible in SUNlight
    FLASH support on webpages (i don\’t like i t either, but half of the internet uses it)
    Internetradio (and streaming TV ?)
    DVB-T / FM / analog TV receiver build in
    Can transfer files over bluetooth
    Can take screenshots without needing a hack
    Soft Keyboard configurable INDEPENDENTof chose Language !!! (always been wrong implemented in Symbian)
    Profies available (silent/flight mode/office/home , preferably with Nokia situations)
    SECURABLE device (remote lockable if lost and encrypted SD-card/SSD-drive build in) = business-usable
    Able to run Google Maps
    configurable home screens (calendar/weather widgets like Android)
    APPS not in tablet-memory but external SSD/SD-card
    DATA connectivity contrable (turn off 3G/wifi/bluetooth one by one)
    connect with bluetooth car-kits (voice+mediastreaming)
    support copy/paste !
    removable/swappable/exchangble battery (also if empty/crash/worn out)