Nokia will release a tablet with Windows 8 in 2012 to compete with the Apple iPad

Nokia, which still remains the world's largest maker of mobile phones despite the reduction in market share , plans to launch in mid-2012 a tablet equipped with Windows 8 , the next version of Microsoft's operating system to compete with the iPad from Apple, published by French daily Les Echos .

"In June 2012, we have a tablet running Windows 8", said the CEO of Nokia in France, Paul Amsellem, in a newspaper interview with the Frenchman. At the moment, the Finnish manufacturer refuses to confirm or deny the news officially . "We have not announced any specific plans in regard to tablets," said a spokesperson from Nokia headquarters in Espoo (Finland). to confirm these plans, Nokia would jump to the attractive and growing business of electronic tablets , a hybrid between computer and smartphone designed by Apple in early 2010. Nokia launched last October 26 the first two smartphones based on Windows operating system for mobile Phone , the result of its strategic alliance with the U.S. giant's software Microsoft, and the first of these devices, the Lumia 800 , arrived in stores yesterday and French. The two companies are cooperating closely to create "a new global mobile ecosystem" that competes with IOS platforms, Apple, and Android , of Google.