Nokia sold its phone-making division to Microsoft earlier this year after a long time of playing dead. Nathaniel Mott doesn't hold back in describing Nokia's unimpressive period: ;"it was hard not to look at the company’s shambling corpse and feel the same kind of disgust one feels when a particularly gruesome zombie shows up on 'The Walking Dead.'” Can't get much uglier than that. With such low expectations, and a chance of rebirth, will Nokia recreate itself?
Nokia rises from the dead with an iPad mini knock-off that looks even better than the original
By NATHANIEL MOTT at Pando
Nokia might not be as dead as we thought.
The company has announced a new tablet to go along with its Z Launcher for Android devices. It’s basically a better iPad mini: it’s thinner, lighter, and features the laminated display that Apple added to the iPad Air 2 but didn’t include in the latest version of the itty-bitty iPad mini. Oh, and it will cost just $250 when it debuts early next year, compared to the iPad mini’s $399.
The device is expected to debut in China early next year before heading to Russia; it’s not clear when, or if, it will be available in Western markets. The tablet will actually be manufactured by Foxconn, which licensed the design and branding from Nokia, but the Finland-based company will have control of its design and sales. Nokia is dragging itself out of its Microsoft-dug grave.
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