Nokia has revealed the Lumia 2520, the company's first tablet device, at the Nokia World conference in Abu Dhabi. It's a 10.1in slate with a Full HD display Nokia says is the brightest it has ever produced, but news that it runs the cut-down Windows RT operating system may come as a disappointment to anyone hoping for a Surface Pro 2 competitor.
Having previously leaked online on benchmark result tables and the Bluetooth certification database, the Lumia 2520 didn't come as a huge surprise. It takes the unibody polycarbonate design and vibrant red, white, cyan, and black colour choices from the Lumia handset range, but increases the screen size to 10.1in.
That display can reach a maximum brightness of 650nit, which is more than double the average brightness of other tablets. It should make it much easier to read in bright sunlight, but could have a negative impact on battery life if turned up to the maximum setting for long periods of time.
There's a 6.7-megapixel camera on the back of the tablet and a 2-megapixel webcam on the front. The f/1.9 Zeiss lens is paired with Nokia's Lumia camera app, which launched with the Lumia 1520 earlier today.
Inside, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor runs at 2.2GHz and is paired with 2GB of RAM. It should compare favorably to the Nvidia Tegra 4 chipset inside the Surface 2, although we'll have to wait until we have both in the lab to do a direct comparison.
It looks like Nokia has taken more than a little inspiration from Microsoft's tablets, as the Lumia 2520 will launch with an optional Power cover that adds a physical keyboard and touchpad, twin USB ports and an internal battery that should boost the tablet from 11 hours to 16 when away from the mains.
Naturally for a Nokia device the Lumia 2520 will include mobile network support, in the form of an integrated 4G LTE modem. We can expect UK mobile networks to sell the tablet on contract as well as SIM-free when it launches in the US, UK and Finland in the coming months. It will cost $499, roughly £310 before taxes, with the optional Power cover set to cost $149/£99.
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