Monday, January 24, 2011

Is this Nokia's tablet-shaped MeeGo device?

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Consider this little slice of photography uncorroborated for now, but
we just couldn't ignore a device that's ostensibly running MeeGo
software while sporting a bold Nokia logo front and center on its
shell. This mysterious slate has cropped up over at the mobile-review
forums, where amateur sleuthing has already noted that the landscape
centering of the Nokia logo is atypical -- both the N97 and N900 have
it off-center -- which may well suggest this is a landscape-centric
tablet first and a phone second (if at all!). Assuming the brand name
imprint is the same size as on the N8 (Nokia loves to standardize
those), we could be looking at a 4.5-inch screen on what is either an
internal test device, or, more optimistically, a prototype for actual
hardware. It's worth noting that the MeeGo seen on board is of the
stock variety, whereas Nokia intends to ship its new flagship
device(s) with an as-yet-unseen set of UI customizations collectively
known as Harmattan. So we're certainly not looking at anything close
to a final hardware / software pairing, but we are looking at something.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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