Nokia’s N1 Android Tablet Could Be Headed To India

Nokia’s first Android device is… wait for it… a tablet!

Continuing from Rahul’s brilliant article in November 2014, outlining how Nokia was licensing its brand to Foxconn to manufacture it’s N1 Tablet, we now believe that the Nokia N1, the first device released by Nokia post-Microsoft’s buyout could be headed to India.

Confused? Well, here’s a quick recount of the Microsoft-Nokia deal. Microsoft bought Nokia’s mobile devices business, and the agreement apparently only entailed Nokia’s mobile phones (feature phones) business and not even the smartphones. It was later extended to Nokia’s Lumia i.e. Smartphones portfolio too. However this agreement didn’t include Tablets.

So, Nokia, in order to keep its brand alive quick marched their way to producing a tablet. Lo, the Nokia N1, manufactured by Foxconn, was born.

Released in January 2015, the Nokia N1 is an Android-based tablet that features a 7.9-inch screen and a powerful Atom processor from Intel.

The N1 is apparently already a huge hit in China — a country which doesn’t even support the Google Play Store! Read our previous article to see how China reacted.

According to several rumours, Nokia are now finally ready to launch the device in the Indian subcontinent.

Hardware wise, the N1 is fairly competitive. An IPS LCD capacitive touch screen with an impressive 2048x1536 resolution and a pixel density of 324 ppi, a contemporary 64-bit Intel Atom processor clocking in at 2.3 GHz with 2 GB of RAM backing it.

The Finnish giant, apart from providing Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box (wrapped under Nokia’s Z Launcher), also offer 32 GB internal storage in this tablet. Other features include an 8 megapixel rear camera, a 5 megapixel front shooter, a 5300 mAh battery and connectivity options such as WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0.

Expected to be priced at around INR 17,000, the Nokia N1 could face serious competition in the Indian market from devices such as Apple’s iPad Mini 2 ( the one with Retina display), Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 (8), Dell Venue 8 Pro, Samsung Tab E, Asus Tablet MeMO Pad 8, Huawei Honor X1 and the vintage Google Nexus 7.

And this is not all, the Nokia team has been busy readying to announce OZO, their virtual reality camera for professional content creators in the next few weeks. Check back in for more.

Originally published at Chip-Monks.