Tag: Nokia
Some N8 Phones Have Power Problems
by Ranju Chaudhary on Nov.19, 2010, under Top Gadgets
Some Nokia N8 phones have a power fault that makes them power off all by themselves, Nokia’s Excecutive Vice President Niklas Savander said in a video on Nokia’s official blog.
“Through our customer care we have heard that a limited number of Nokia N8 customers are experiencing a power down or not power up of the device,” said Savander. When asked how many users are affected, Savander said it’s a “small number,” adding however that for the consumers that are affected, it’s a “significant issue”.
Savander claims Nokia has found and fixed the source of the problem. If you have a Nokia N8 that’s experiencing the issue, you’ll be happy to know that it’s covered by Nokia’s standard warranty.
Nokia Plans Tablet to Take on iPad
by neetika on Apr.07, 2010, under Gadgets, Top Gadgets
Nokia is the latest in a growing line of consumer electronics manufacturers eager to produce a tablet following the buzz Apple created with the iPad.
According to The Street, the mobile giant is already working with partners to develop a new touchscreen tablet. The company aims to get it to market by fall in time to meet holiday demand.
Nokia is in a unique position to develop an iPad competitor, having launched a line of tablet devices as early as 2005 with the Nokia 770. Followed by two successors, the N800 and N810 (pictured above right), the Nokia Internet Tablets line never really took off. The company ended up retooling the latest spiritual successor, the N900, as a mobile phone.
Whereas Nokia’s high-end smartphone line is heading toward the Linux-based Maemo for its standard operating system, the new tablet could potentially run MeeGo, the new mobile operating system the company is developing with Intel. If so, MeeGo-based tablets would join the fleet of other tablets slated to run Android and Windows 7 coming later this year.
