Re: New Tablet This Year?
 

I know nothing of NokNok.tv, but I find that in general, when people make some general statement about Nokia's N-series, they're talking about the phones. Nokia may have put the tablets in the same room, but the cool kids don't let them sit at their table.

Re: New Tablet This Year?
 

noknok... or what ever it is... seems to be talking about N-Series "PHONES"... not the tablets.

Just an observation...

Regards,

Omega

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And suddenly the people with a helpful tag "I'm a Nokia PR" are well over a dozen. :D

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Meh. Being plied with alcohol by a bunch of geeks? I mean, are there any women even coming to the summit? I guess free-alcohol-is-free-alcohol, but booze isn't that expensive, is it?

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The tablets don't want to sit at that table, anyway. The talk is really boring over there.

Whoah. Flashback to high school.

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It looks like somebody has already gone ahead and took a sample of the alcohol.

Ever been in Finland? And anyway it's also a matter of selection. With a monopoly there are sooo many things that are not available. For example I suspect that there is a special low quality distillery in Italy that produces the grappa imported by Alko.

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Well, then, you go ahead and pretend to be a Nokia PR rep, and let a bunch of developer-types buy you drinks. You're right. That sounds like lots of fun.

No, but it sounds kinda nice.

I see, you're going to play hard-to-get... "If you buy me that 100-year-old cognac, I might remember something more about the new tablet..."

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Are you sure we haven't met yet? Yup cognac is my stuff :D

Anyway, regardless of the level of bribery I hope to have some HW to show and possibly demo - it will be built the next week.

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This rumor is coming from Eldar Murtazin - the guy running mobile-review.com. He mentioned this in his N79/N85 preview (last paragraph).
I'm a mod in that forum, and I can tell you that he meant phones. 99.95% sure ;)

That KFlyer guy from the "source" blog of NokNok is just a kid who wants to make himself look more important by quoting a mysterious "trusted source". He's a member of the M-R forums, so...


Other than that, I agree with the wild guesses above - if we're going to see new tablets in 2008, it will almost surely be in Berlin. What better place to do that other than when most vocal tablet evangelists come together?

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Well, I suspect the planning boiled down more to "let's announce nifty stuff at OSiM World, and oh, it would be nice if we could gather some of the rabid fans community there for it" than the other way around, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. Mostly because I've never been given a horse and wouldn't know what to look for if I were, but still.

In any case, we've known for some time that Ari Jaaksi will be announcing something interesting at OSiM, as the Nokia folks keep going on about how the topics covered in their session will shift massively after Ari's talk. And gee, hasn't Ari said something about steps before?