"When it comes to tablets, Windows 8 is a “supercharged” version of Windows Phone, Elop enthused."
Perhaps he meant "updated" instead of "supercharged" ? It is a major version update after all.
Is Nokia reconsidering the release of a tablet? Comments from CEO Stephen Elop suggest the Finnish phone giant might well be. “There’s a new tablet opportunity coming,” Elop told BusinessWeek. “We see the opportunity. Unquestionably, that will change the dynamics” of the tablet market. The opportunity? Windows 8, apparently …
Dear Santa,
Please can I have for Christmas a half decent x86 tablet?
One that has something better than the shitty Intel graphics and is thinner than a Tom Clancy novel?
One that was not a finalist in the world's ugliest device competition?
Perhaps a nice ION 2 based 10.1" platform that is reasonably thin, reasonably light, has a nice screen and does not cost £1,000.
Thanks,
A/C
PS: I have been an very good boy.
Obvious to me from the get go of the whole Elop adventure.
Purposefully expensive, 'a la apple', Nokian hardware running SW compatible with the most used PC architecture on the planet, Sling in XBOX compatibility and this will sell by the Jub load.
Complete & utter no brainer.
MS hardware so far has been an embarrassment to tech. Only problem will be getting the Nokia designed/made ones to break, apple are still king there.