A new Finnish publication has shed more light on a Nokia tablet which was developed as far back as 2001 (14 years ago and almost 9 years before the first iPad devce) which would run on the then popular Symbian OS, simply known as the Nokia M510. Until recent terms like Symbian OS, Meego OS and Windows phone OS (Windows OS inclusive) used to be synonymous with Nokia but that isn’t the case anymore. The Meego OS was expected to takeover the already fading Symbian OS, but then Nokia CEO opted for Windows Phone OS even when Android was already showing promise of being a sustainable OS. Since then Nokia has struggled till it recently sold its Mobile Arm to Microsoft.
Nokia M510
The Finland Based company has finally Joined the Android bandwagon, the upcoming Nokia N1 tablet would run on the just released Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. Though the company already has a tablet running on Windows OS, the N1 would be the first to be powered by Android.
A telecommunication expert familiar with the project, Esko Yliruusi was among the people who made the Nokia M510 Symbian OS tablet in 2001. The tablet was 45 minutes away from mass production but about 1000 units of the device were actually completed. The device didn’t see a release date as its production was halted but around 130 units of the device were given to the development team as a farewell gift and the rest were scrapped.
The Nokia M510 packed a stand to keep it for usage in an upright position. The device features 32MB of SDRAM, 32MB flash storage, 10-inch 800 x 600 pixels LCD display, an email client, Opera web browser, noticeboard application and a calender. The M510 has a battery life of 4 straight hours, weighs 1.876Kg and runs on Epoc (an early version of Symbian OS).
The tablet looks a lot like the a bigger version of the Nokia Ngage and isn’t exactly old fashioned. The M510 would have been the first internet enabled device from Nokia, instead Nokia 770 got the honours with the Maemo OS (later Meego OS) running on it. Since then, it has been a different tale for Nokia.
