You may or may not recall that is wasn't too long ago that Nokia released a 3G notebook (aka. Booklet 3G)  - it was quite impressive as well although the sales channel was a disaster! So there's no shocker here that Nokia is planning a tablet release very soon

This via Rethink wireless...

Nokia's French chief has let slip that the firm plans to launch a Windows 8 tablet as early as the second quarter next year, and will almost certainly have to work with Qualcomm on the chip side. This could be an important launch for all involved, taking Nokia and Microsoft into the touch tablet space for the first time, and giving Qualcomm a headstart over challengers like Nvidia and TI, which are strong in Android slates. However, Microsoft's decision to wait until W8 to support ARM-based tablets raises a question over how much market share WP7, on which Nokia has staked its future, will ever achieve. The OS had only 1.5% share of the smartphone base in the third quarter, according to Gartner, and will have no chance to expand into new form factors.

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