Nokia Lumia 1520, 1320, 2520 confirmed for South Africa

Windows RT is useless. At the very least it needs some sort of x86 emulation to be useful.
 
Telkom pretty pretty please with a cherry on top pick up on these beautiful devices
 
Windows RT is useless. At the very least it needs some sort of x86 emulation to be useful.

Why?

It comes with Office RT including Outlook

There are thousands of apps in the Windows Store already and increasing daily

As a productivity tool it's great when you don't want to lug around your laptop to meetings.

The battery on my Dell XPS10 lasts about a week between charges, no x86 tablet will achieve anything near that.

Also if you want an x86 tablet with Windows on it there are plenty of choices out there.
 
Windows RT is useless. At the very least it needs some sort of x86 emulation to be useful.

You've got some ill perceived perception on Windows RT. Microsoft rightfully did away with the RT branding because of the confusion it caused. A Windows 8 ARM based tablet (RT if you will), can be and is more productive than an iPad. You get Office 2013 with Outlook (as stated) and you are able to add it to your company's domain if need be.

There are a load of apps available for the device and more coming.

If you want to diss WinRT, you'll have to diss the iPad also because essentially you can do less with an iPad than a Windows tablet.
 
You've got some ill perceived perception on Windows RT. Microsoft rightfully did away with the RT branding because of the confusion it caused. A Windows 8 ARM based tablet (RT if you will), can be and is more productive than an iPad. You get Office 2013 with Outlook (as stated) and you are able to add it to your company's domain if need be.

There are a load of apps available for the device and more coming.

If you want to diss WinRT, you'll have to diss the iPad also because essentially you can do less with an iPad than a Windows tablet.

You cannot domain join it as such, it does have Workplace Join and device management.

Workplace Join:
A Windows 8 PC was either domain joined or not. If it was a member of the domain, the user could access corporate resources (if permissioned) and IT could control the PC through group policy and other mechanisms. This feature allows a middle ground between all or nothing access, allowing a user to work on the device of their choice and still have access to corporate resources With Workplace Join, IT administrators now have the ability to offer finer-grained control to corporate resources. If a user registers their device, IT can grant some access while still enforcing some governance parameters on the device.

Mobile Device Management:
When a user enrolls their device, they are joining the device to the Windows Intune management service. They get access to the Company Portal which provides a consistent experience for access to their applications, data and to manage their own devices. This allows a deeper management experience with existing tools like Windows Intune. IT administrators now have deeper policy management for Windows RT devices, and can manage Windows 8.1 PCs as mobile devices without having deploy a full management client.
 
There are at least ten good reasons why a Windows 8.1 for ARM (RT) tablet (such as Surface 2) is preferable to an iPad. Or they can be stated like the Ten Commandments, as obverse injunctions:

Reason 1: Thou shalt not plug an external HDD or flash drive into thine iPad's USB port to watch a movie or work on files. Thou shalt have no USB ports to attach anything other than that commanded or permitted by Apple.
 
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Microsoft maybe doing away with RT it could be merged with Windows phone
 
There are at least ten good reasons why a Windows 8.1 for ARM (RT) tablet (such as Surface 2) is preferable to an iPad. Or they can be stated like the Ten Commandments, as obverse injunctions:

Reason 1: Thou shalt not plug an external HDD or flash drive into thine iPad's USB port to watch a movie or work on files. Thou shalt have no USB ports to attach anything other than that commanded or permitted by Apple.

You paying for the liquid damage to my laptop now?
 
I think a lot of people really get the whole RT project horribly misunderstood

Windows has traditionally been written for the 86 platform in various incarnations and coupled to this is a CISC architecture and approach. Pre XP there was a split between the NT line and what for the sake of convenience can be called the descendents of DOS. When NT came out it supported platforms other than the 86 platform but systematically they died off and in reality Windows 2000 and ME marked the end of the application split between NT and compatibility. Windows XP really marks a software merger of the Wintel system. Microsoft put a bit of a bet in with Itanium which failed them and later saw the rise of ARM as a possible platform for their core market. Unfortunately having been caught up in life as being all about the Pentium [baby] and the adoption of 86X64 on the AMD approach a decision on how to get an ARM system up was a nuisance.
Microsoft's answer has been to recognize the constraints of their NT (86x64) platform and to look to a runtime (RT) system that allows for ARM systems to run apps.

So Windows RT really is the new framework and API and other bells and whistles from Microsoft that runs on an ARM based platform. Everything that RT can run can run on a full Windows 8 system as Apps but it is likely to do so with less elegance and with more resource use (waste). WP8 on the other hand does not include the full framework it simply moves on with the CE trajectory which happens to also be ARM based. WP will be flogged off long before RT dies for fairly obvious reasons.

So this is the million dollar question on buying a RT device: does the user experience justify the device cost? Would the disadvantages of an 86x64 system justify the particular device. They got the formula horribly wrong with surface and possibly even surface 2 but the Nokia 2520 looks like it got the formula just right
 
WP8 on the other hand does not include the full framework it simply moves on with the CE trajectory which happens to also be ARM based. WP will be flogged off long before RT dies for fairly obvious reasons.

WP8's kernel is NT based not CE, WP7 was CE based hence why WP7 devices can't be upgraded to WP8
 
I know they moved over the kernel in 3 or so steps from a few years ago (hence the word trajectory) but IIRC WP7 and WP8 both use a non RT application structure - which is why RT apps (like Office) can't work at all. My guess is that WP9 will be a fully RT system
 
WP8's kernel is NT based not CE, WP7 was CE based hence why WP7 devices can't be upgraded to WP8
That makes no sense.

If they wanted to, they could ship a new kernel with a WP8 upgrade.
 
That makes no sense.



If they wanted to, they could ship a new kernel with a WP8 upgrade.




WP7 hardware isn't compatible with the WP8 kernel, no point in developing a entire new port of a kernel to support old hardware on devices that get replaced quite often
 
Windows RT is useless. At the very least it needs some sort of x86 emulation to be useful.

While RT might be useless (as a PC replacement) it is certainly just as (if not a lot more useful than) iOS and Android devices. RT is what iOS is to MacOS and Android to Chrome. A tablet OS.

One article I saw brought to light the wisdom on RT - that being the ability to make devices that are more portable and road efficient as opposed to desktop / laptop spec'ed devices such as the Surface Pro and other Win8 Pro devices.

What makes Nokia's tablet particularly attractive to me relative to iOS or Android devices is the following factors:
- Design (Lumia)
- Here Maps (true offline)
- Nokia cam
- LTE
- MS Office suite apps (offline)
- Its a Nokia
 
What makes Nokia's tablet particularly attractive to me relative to iOS or Android devices is the following factors:
- Design (Lumia)
- Here Maps (true offline)
- Nokia cam
- LTE
- MS Office suite apps (offline)
- Its a Nokia

I must say I'm really tempted! Nokia hardware is gorgeous...
 
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