Nokia Z500 MeeGo Tablet Spotted in Ovi Store Mention

By Chuong Nguyen on 11/01/2010, filed in Home > Gadgets

The long rumored Nokia Z500 tablet, which has been spotted in a tweet earlier, was also recently spotted as a mention on Nokia’s own Ovi Store. The device, expected to run on Nokia’s and Intel’s MeeGo operating system, is due to compete in the tablet category against Apple’s iPad and the emerging crop of Android slates. The company had quickly replaced the live product page site with a placeholder text. Could the MeeGo tablet be launching soon?

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

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