Nokia Internet Tablets is the name given to a range of

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mobile Internet appliances products. These tablets fall in the range between a

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(PDA) and an

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(UMPC), and slightly below

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(MID).

Early trials and predecessors

Nokia had plans for an

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tablet since before 2000. An early model was test manufactured in 2001, the Nokia M510, which was running on EPOC and featuring an

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browser, speakers and a 10-inch 800x600 screen, but it was not released because of fears that the market was not ready for it. The M510 was first leaked to the public in 2014. Prior to the introduction of Nokia's Internet tablets, Nokia unveiled two "media devices" in 2003-04 which were mobile phones but had a form factor similar to the Internet tablets that followed them. The first of this type of device was the Nokia 7700 which was intended for mass production but ended up being canned in favor of the Nokia 7710 which had a slightly more traditional form-factor and better specs.

Maemo

Nokia Internet Tablets run the

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-based

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, which draws much of its GUI, frameworks, and

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from the

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project. It uses the embedded-targeted

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as its

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and uses

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, a lightweight

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-based toolkit designed for handheld devices, as its GUI and

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Alternative distributions

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is available.

Models

Notes

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