Nokia bounces back with launch of Android tablet N1
Nokia revives the brand with launch of iPad look-alike tablet, which is planned to be in stores in China in the first quarter of next year for an estimated price of $249 before taxes. Nokia of Finland on Tuesday launched a new brand-licensed tablet computer, which is designed to rival Apple’s iPad Mini, just six months after the company sold its ailing phones and devices business to Microsoft for over $7 billion. Nokia, a name which was once synonymous with mobile phones until first Apple and then Samsung Electronics eclipsed the Finnish company with the advent of smart phones, said the manufacturing, distribution and sales of the new N1 Tablet, will be handled under licence by Taiwan’s Foxconn. The aluminium-cased N1, which runs on Google’s Android Lollipop operating software but features Nokia’s new Z Launcher intelligent home screen interface, is due to be in stores in China in the first quarter of next year for an estimated price of $249 before taxes, wi...