'Revolutionary' Nokia phone and tablet reportedly in the works

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is now working on a tablet computer, a Finnish newspaper quoted an official of the firm as saying.

 

Tech site The Next Web reported the revelation was published in the an interview for Finnish newspaper Kauppalehti, which was published in its monthly ‘Optio’ magazine.

 

"We are working on it," design chief Marko Ahtisaari was quoted in the interview, The Next Web said.

 

Ahtisaari was also quoted as saying he was spending up to a third of his time on the device.

 

His comments came after sources in Asia suggested that Nokia was already in the process of designing and making a new 10.1-inch Windows 8.

 

The sources suggested the supposed tablet would use a dual-core Qualcomm processor and launch before the end of the year.

 

But it also quoted a Nokia spokesperson as saying at the time that they "continue to eye the tablet space with interest, but have made no specific announcements.”

 

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop had said the tablet market is interesting to the company, but has not moved to confirm the company is working on its own iPad challenger.

 

'Revolutuionary' phone

 

In a separate article by the Finnish newspaper, Ahtisaari also said Nokia was working on a “revolutionary phone.”

 

Once the device is ready, he said “people don’t have to look down to use it and poke their finger at it.”

 

The company also said it is moving ahead with its partnership with Microsoft, pushing new Windows Phone smartphones to reclaim the market share it lost to Apple and Samsung. — TJD, GMA News