{"id":15636,"date":"2013-10-22T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2013-10-22T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T08:20:21","slug":"nokia-launches-a-windows-rt-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15636","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Launches A Windows RT Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to 2 new Windows Phone tablets, Nokia launched \u201cSirius\u201d which is officially called the Lumia 2520.&#160; This is a Windows RT tablet.&#160; On first impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It looks much nicer than Surface 2<\/li>\n<li>The camera looks impressive, even if it\u2019s not a patch on what Nokia puts in the phones<\/li>\n<li>Yes it is more expensive than Surface, but that\u2019s because it includes an LTE modem, which usually adds $100 to the cost of a tablet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All looks good but:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It runs Windows RT.&#160; It might has well have a MIPS processor IMO.&#160; I reckon Windows RT will be dead within 12-18 months of Ballmer leaving Microsoft, probably replaced by a rebranded Windows Phone on ARM devices (phones to 8\u201d tablets).<\/li>\n<li>It only has 32 GB storage.&#160; Remember, that was the Surface RT that no one wanted, not that many wanted a Surface RT to begin with.&#160; 32 GB is just too small.&#160; Nokia has a bad habit of screwing the pooch on storage, e.g. the Lumia 925 only has 16 GB.&#160; And no, SkyDrive does not make up for this shortcoming.&#160; LTE\/3G is not omnipresent.<\/li>\n<li>The keyboard cover is u-g-l-y.&#160; Why the frak can\u2019t they (Microsoft and Nokia) learn from the past and just do a clamshell keyboard that works, unlike the non-hinged unusable and space-inefficient stuff they repetitively throw at us?&#160; The Nokia cover looks like one of those iPad covers from 3 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>The Surface organisation will kill the Lumia tablet in a few months when MSFT gets the OK to take over Nokia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d41eda1e-7441-41e2-b6b5-3d89ec39ce72\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hardware\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8.1\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8.1<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to 2 new Windows Phone tablets, Nokia launched \u201cSirius\u201d which is officially called the Lumia 2520.&#160; This is a Windows RT tablet.&#160; On first impressions: It looks much nicer than Surface 2 The camera looks impressive, even if it\u2019s not a patch on what Nokia puts in the phones Yes it is more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nokia Launches A Windows RT Tablet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[180,110],"class_list":["post-15636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware","tag-windows-8-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}