{"id":45736,"date":"2012-03-15T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T07:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=45736"},"modified":"2012-03-15T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T07:48:45","slug":"nokia-tablet-pc-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/45736-nokia-tablet-pc-confirmed.html","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Tablet PC confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314603-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working on it,&#8221; he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia&#8217;s Chief Executive <a title=\"Stephen Elop\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/354658-Stephen-Elop\">Stephen Elop<\/a> has said the category is interesting for the Finnish company, but has stressed the need for a different approach to numerous rivals trying to battle against the dominance of <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple&#8217;s<\/a> iPad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to eye the tablet space with interest, but have made no specific announcements,&#8221; a company spokesman said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia is widely expected to launch an own tablet using <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> 8 software later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":42981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,5026,123,653,865,807],"class_list":["post-45736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-marko-ahtisaari","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia","tag-stephen-elop","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45738,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45736\/revisions\/45738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}