Meet The Nokia N1 Android Tablet

Look at this pictures ! is it another iPad mini with its twin speakers, look at the placement of the rear camera !, well that's a huge similarity, but this is the N1, a new Android tablet by Nokia.

The Nokia N1 is a little slimmer than the iPad Mini 3 (6.9mm), otherwise, the new tablet is equipped with a 7.9 inch display, an 8 MP rear camera and a 5 megapixel front camera, when looking at the internal hardware, there is no real similarity with the iPad mini, the Nokia N1 is provided with a quad-core Intel Atom Z3580 processor clocked at 2.4GHz, a processor that will manage a 2GB of RAM and a 32GB of internal storage.

The Nokia N1 will run the latest Android version, the Android 5.0, but, a Nokia software layer will be added which is the Z Launcher that will be available in the Google Play Store soon.

The N1 tablet is a mix between the Apple design, the Nokia hardware and the Google Android software, this should be successful ! the tablet will be launched on February 19, 2015 in China, then, after that released in Russia and it will cost you $250.

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Nokia Is Investing $100 Million on Connected Cars

After the sale of its mobile unit to Microsoft, Nokia has announced that they will invest an amount of 100 million dollars to work with start ups specialized in connected cars field.

After the three Giants Google, Apple and Microsoft have invested is connected cars, it is Nokia's turn to compete with them is this project, it is a new field

that is supposed to change the way of driving cars, maybe it will be easier and bring more fun.

The funding will be distributed on three major global markets which are China, the US and Europe. The funds are also intended for the dashboard mapping and location system called HERE, which is the former Nokia Maps.

HERE is already equipping a number of 10 million car in the world with their different services, HERE Auto (a GPS available in 95 country), HERE Auto Companion (GPS for Windows Phone) HERE Auto Cloud which provide traffic informations and HERE Traffic, the phone version of Here Auto Cloud.

HERE is already a dashboard used by Toyota and BMW and others..

Maybe we have to wait for a couple years before enjoying connected cars, but it will be definitely a big revolution.

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