This whole netbook thing is rapidly getting out of hand, and we’re fast approaching a situation where every last company (including ODMs) in any corner of the PC or mobile space will have jumped on the netbook bandwagon. A case in point is Nokia, which, faced with tanking revenues in its high-margin handset business, is making ever-louder noises about getting into laptops.
In an interview with Finnish TV summarized by Reuters, Nokia didn’t appear to use the n-word (we haven’t seen a full transcript, though), but there was plenty of talk of PCs and mobiles converging, and how Nokia is “looking very actively” at this convergence. The question that the report leaves open is “what kind of ‘laptop’ is Nokia considering?”
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