Nokia's rumoured Windows tablet could be unveiled in September

While the tablet market has seen quite a few big players jumping on the bandwagon over the last few years, Nokia has always discredited any plans for a tablet of its own. Yesterday, a leak indicated that the claim is not true.

A report by Windows Phone Central suggests that the company is planning to have a big event in New York to showcase a “major launch”. And the possibility of Nokia’s tablet being unveiled is not remote. Lending credibility to the rumour is a GFXBench benchmark test which reportedly caught the Nokia device being put through the ropes.

The tablet, codenamed Nokia RX-114, reportedly comes running Windows with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and an Adreno 330 GPU. Dimensions-wise, the tablet may come with an oddly sized 371 x 771 display. The report also said that the tablet will be smallish, somewhere in the range of 11 inches. The design of the new tablet is allegedly similar to the Lumia smartphones line-up, coming with bright colours and rounded corners. There has been no official word from the company, so these statements cannot be confirmed yet.

A possible prototype of the new Nokia tablet (Image credit: Windows Phone Central)

Another leak from the same source seems to validate the existence of the Nokia tablet. The new information now suggests that the Finnish phone manufacturer is indeed planning an event in New York on September 26 and 27. It is plausible to think that the tablet, if it exists, may be lined up for the event.

Nokia has been vocal about its plans to have a major release every quarter. After the announcement of the Nokia Lumia 1020, Nokia head honcho Stephen Elop reportedly teased about a major launch being in the pipeline for the later part of the year, according to Techradar.  At the time, it was assumed that the company was talking about another Lumia smartphone, but the new information may indicate otherwise.

So far, whatever little information that has been leaked point to the new Nokia tablet being a Windows RT device and not a Windows 8-running tablet. Looking at the struggling platform that Microsoft has been hard at work promoting, it is possible that the new Nokia device may be able to give the much needed push that the platform requires.