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Nokia Unveils Android-Powered N1 Tablet With iPad Mini-Inspired Design

I came earlier to check out whether this had made (it had to!) it to MacRumors front page. Now I'm too late. Everything has already been said by other commenters. :D
 
Translation, "USB Type-C: the Apple Lightning connector watered down to mass markets while keeping the mechanical tricks we can claim Prior Art to avoid IP issues."
 
Tech198 said:
Call me an anti Apple player here if u must, but this tablet is actually not that bad..

Considering it's Nokia.... who would of thought Nokia could actually innovate to this level ...

Well done...
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So, "innovate" now is doing the same... Totally new definition. So, I guess Apple innovated by making the screen bigger ;-).
 
Nokia should have just gone all out on Meego when they still had a massive fanbase. Yes they had fallen beyond but what they have done instead has turned an iconic brand into junk.
 
iPad Mini-Inspired?

Monkey see monkey do!!!

nooookia just no.
 
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It's a tablet with a rectangular screen. The case can only have so many designs, especially when it's so thin. If it was plastic, people would have hated that it's cheap and apple is so much better. Now it some premium metal, and it becomes an apple ripoff.

They could have placed the usb port at the top side corner of the device. It would have been a retarded decision. Now it's conveniently centered at the bottom and it's an apple ripoff.

The speaker at the bottom? That's a retarded decision no matter who does that.
 
D.T. said:
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You do realize you can use any launcher you want with Android? You can even install the stock Android Google Now Launcher from the appstore if you prefer to use that one. From what I've seen, the system is otherwise pretty much the stock Android 5.0 Lollipop without any additional bloat.
 
macduke said:
It's pretty insane that Nokia went from the biggest mobile manufacturer in the world, to declining, to being bought out by Microsoft, and the only thing left of old Nokia is they're making cheap Chinese iPad clone knockoffs running Android.
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I agree, this tablet is a dodgey and cheap Chinese knockoff made by a no name Chinese manufacturer that no one ever heard of... Called Foxconn....ahem
 
If Apple intends to cripple the iPad mini with last years spec then it's going to be DOA every year. I was looking at tablets yesterday and this Nokia is only one of a whole range of cheaper better spec'd 7/8" tablets out there. Maybe Apple should reposition the iPad mini along the lines of the iPod touch with a range of bright colours and focus on price rather than performance.
 
Rogifan said:
So who records revenue for the sale of this product - Nokia or Foxconn? Ben Bajarin seems to think its Foxconn.
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He's right - Nokia will record License Fee and Royalty Revenues only. The $249 will be recorded by Foxconn.

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AppleScruff1 said:
Except the Galaxy phone of that design was released before the iPhone 6.
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The phone in that picture isn't a Samsung. It's the Lenovo.
 
N1 = No one wants this clone

Headline should be, Nokia was the #98 most valuable brand in the morning and by afternoon it's now at the bottom of the top 1000. It must have hit Nokia that after selling off Lumia to Microsoft that "WE DIDN'T RETAIN ANY DESIGNERS, OH ****!" and when they asked the design intern if they had any ideas they handed them the iPad mini they were checking Facebook on.
 
krewger said:
Headline should be, Nokia was the #98 most valuable brand in the morning and by afternoon it's now at the bottom of the top 1000. It must have hit Nokia that after selling off Lumia to Microsoft that "WE DIDN'T RETAIN ANY DESIGNERS, OH ****!" and when they asked the design intern if they had any ideas they handed them the iPad mini they were checking Facebook on.
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Except it doesn't look like an iPad Mini. It looks like an iPhone 6.

Personally, I don't think NO ONE will want this tablet. If you're not using the Apple specific features you're a fool to not consider alternatives.

My wife is just that. She lives in MS Office and Google apps and services and has an iPhone, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Tab, iMac, and Macbook Pro. At one point she had an iPad as well.

Now, she's considering a Windows tablet. She's becoming more diverse in tech than I am now that I've gone back to all Apple products.

This tablet though, is one good looking piece of hardware . . . . . mainly because it looks like an iPhone 6.
 
Nokia sold much of itself off to Microsoft, but not everything- just the devices and services units.

This tablet is manufactured by Foxconn, sold by Foxconn, and support is by Foxconn. Basically Nokia (what's left of it) is just licensing their brand to Foxconn. So the headline is a little misleading (big surprise on MacRumors). It's really a Foxconn tablet with a Nokia stamp on the box.

And, as I'm sure everyone here already knows, Foxconn also makes the iPad and iPhone.

http://slashdot.org/story/14/11/19/...utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
 
In this day and age I'm sure a lot of designs have been thought of and they are going to look familiar in one way or another, although this one is too similar. Don't forget though that Apple itself isn't innocent of doing this with lifting designs from industrial designer Dieter Rams who worked for Braun.
 
charlituna said:
I'm sure there will be some that disagree with me. But I feel like there needs to be a Back Page for news like this, what Google and Microsoft are up to that has nothing to do with anything Apple etc.

Either that or give us some dang control over what we see on the Front Page so we can ignore this kind of stuff for ourselves
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You ignore news by not reading it. What you did here was the complete opposite of ignoring news you were not interested in.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Except it doesn't look like an iPad Mini. It looks like an iPhone 6.

Personally, I don't think NO ONE will want this tablet. If you're not using the Apple specific features you're a fool to not consider alternatives.

My wife is just that. She lives in MS Office and Google apps and services and has an iPhone, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Tab, iMac, and Macbook Pro. At one point she had an iPad as well.

Now, she's considering a Windows tablet. She's becoming more diverse in tech than I am now that I've gone back to all Apple products.

This tablet though, is one good looking piece of hardware . . . . . mainly because it looks like an iPhone 6.
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Exactly. first glance reminds me of the iPhone 6 body, not sure why people keep making the comparison to the iPad mini.
 
Keirasplace said:
So, "innovate" now is doing the same... Totally new definition. So, I guess Apple innovated by making the screen bigger ;-).
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Well, its just users don't really see Nokia as a player in this space, but they are. I wouldn't really say Apple innovated by a bigger screen either, they just looked at Samsung
 
mazz0 said:
I actually think it looks very different. The shape of the edge, predominantly the lack of the chamfer, gives it a totally different look and feel. Much more 2000s Apple than current Apple.
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I agree, physically it looks pretty different from the iPad mini 3.

The N1 has a fully rounded edge instead of half-round and chamfered like the iPad.

It also doesn't have a physical Home button, but does have twice the RAM, and two higher resolution cameras, at a much lower price.

As for the speaker grilles, Nokia was using a similar pattern on their phones a half year before the iPad switched to using large holes as well.

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