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Nokia’s new, secret gadget is an Android tablet

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Nokia N1

The teasing is over, and Nokia has made its first product announcement since Microsoft took over their mobile division: the Nokia N1 Android tablet.

As reported yesterday, Nokia might be out of the mobile business but is far from down for the count. The Finnish giant has announced their new Android-powered tablet, which marks their hopefully triumphant return to the hardware side of business. This new creation is called the N1 tablet, and will come out in Q1 2015, first in China and then in the rest of the world.

This is not the work of just Nokia. who turned the N1 tablet into an international collaboration by licensing the Nokia brand and having software and design created by third parties such as Foxconn from Taiwan. What this phone does not have is an American collaboration, as Nokia have clarified time and again that Microsoft had nothing to with any part of the N1′s development, which will eventually lead to a market with two separate companies called Nokia, and two of them providing official Nokia products. Confusing, much?

The N1 itself is made to compete head on with the iPad mini at 7.9in (20.1cm), but it is powered by a custom version of the Google’s Android 5.0 operating system. It will sell at retail for $249. So, who is excited to see Nokia fight back?

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Nokia claim to be “up to something”, tease black box

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Nokia Black Box

Since being acquired by Microsoft, Nokia’s name was dropped from many models such as the Lumia 535. That doesn’t mean Nokia isn’t producing hardware anymore, though.

Nokia still seem to have something to offer to the world, even after their acquisition and then re-branding by the Microsoft team. Nokia might no longer have the handset division which made it a household name all around the world, but they still do not seem ready to abandon the hardware side of things just yet, as they posted a tease for whatever they have coming up next on their Twitter account.

All we can infer from the picture is that it either is or comes in a mysterious, unidentified black box. Furthermore, the accompanying text of ‘guess what? We’re up to something’ doesn’t add too much information, so speculating is hard. Nokia’s team had been using their tweeter account to speak of a ‘reinvented Nokia’ and a ‘fresh start’, while they also mentioned the possibility of entering the wearables’ market, so that could be what this new project is all about.

What is a fact is that Nokia have a scheduled talk at Slush, a tech conference focused on new technologies titled ‘What’s next, Nokia?’. It’s pretty clear, Nokia will unveil something, and that something is definitely a hardware product. Now, whether it is a set-top box for TV, a smartwatch or what, remains to be seen. What matters is that the Finnish guys are not yet down for the count.

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