14 DAY TRIAL // A new patent filing from Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has emerged, showing what seems to be a tablet PC that the company might have planned to bring to the market.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) was the one to unveil this device, though exact details on it are not available for the time being.
What can be extracted from the available images, however, includes the fact that we're looking at a device somehow similar with the Nokia N8 smartphone from the company.
The drawing also confirms that Nokia planned on packing it with a series of ports that are usually found in such devices, such as a 3.5mm headphone jack, and others more.
Taking into consideration the hardware specs of the latest high-end smartphones from the company, an HDMI-out port might have been included into the mix as well.
Of course, info on the operating system that this device might have been running under lacks at the moment, though the safest bet would include MeeGo or Symbian, platforms that Nokia already worked with.
The patent was submitted by Nokia in May of 2010, the guys over at BGR point out, which means that the company aimed at launching the tablet with one of the said OSes on board, most probably MeeGo.
However, there is a great chance that the device would never hit shelves, following Nokia's shift towards Microsoft's Windows Phone platform.
In February, the company announced that it has adopted the Windows Phone platform, and that it would leave MeeGo and Symbian behind, which suggests that the development of this tablet PC might have been scrapped.
There is no official confirmation on the existence of this tablet PC for the time being, but, provided that Nokia would actually plan on bringing it to the market, it should not be too long before some details on it are unveiled, so stay tuned.
