Apple with the new iPad and Nokia enters tablet battle - ABC News

It was a feast for the world gizmo buffs Tuesday: Apple introduced its latest iPad. At the same time Nokia announces challenger in the tablet game.

Finns even trying to invent a new product category, a phablet is a cross between a phone and a tablet, or a phone and a tablet.

While the somewhat faded Finnish mobile giant launched its first 10-inch tablet, Lumia 2520, the company presented also two smaller and cheaper varieties.

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Fills a Niche

Lumia Lumia 1520 and 1320 is six inches big screen. It places the model somewhere between a smartphone and a thoroughbred tablet. This seemed therefore that Nokia is matched to give them a name that is somewhere between a phone and tablet.

And so it is up to the market and future sales figures to see if the space the two Lumia trays put in, also is a void people have been waiting to get filled.

The new Nokia gadgets is powered by Microsoft Windows and comes in the wake of Microsoft’s acquisition of the mobile phone manufacturer.

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Still heavier than air

A few hours after the Finns had boasted of their latest gadgets, it was Apple’s turn to brag. Both operating systems, laptops and the company’s new professional machine was displayed, but it was enough the next generation iPad that was the greatest expectations.

After walking away from numbering each new version, dropped name choice this time the Air. It is already the company’s lightest laptops and signals that the tablet also has become even easier. About the weight actually been lower were not revealed during the presentation, but it’s certainly become thinner. The latest iPad is slim 1.9 millimeters and now measures 7.5 millimeters at its thickest.

price starts at $ 499 (just under 3,000 million), compared to $ 299 (around 1,750 million) for the smallest iPad mini.

To date, Apple has sold 10 million tablets, and although the latest is also the most expensive, it’s probably pretty safe to predict that they are going to sell a few million after Tuesday’s launch.