According to TheStreet, the mobile giant is already working with partners to develop a new touchscreen tablet. The company aims to get it to market by fall in time to meet holiday demand.
Nokia is in a unique position to develop an iPad competitor, having launched a line of tablet devices as early as 2005 with the Nokia 770. Followed by two successors, the N800 and N810 (pictured above right), the Nokia Internet Tablets line never really took off. The company ended up retooling the latest spiritual successor, the N900, as a mobile phone.
Whereas Nokia's high-end smartphone line is heading toward the Linux-based Maemo for its standard operating system, the new tablet could potentially run MeeGo, the new mobile operating system the company is developing with Intel. If so, MeeGo-based tablets would join the fleet of other tablets slated to run Android and Windows 7 coming later this year.