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    News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Also Nokia Power Keyboard provides keyboard, touchpad, USB ports, extra power.
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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    That price point!

    The big disadvantage of RT is you need 32gb minimum. It is about equitable to a 16gb iPad in my experience. However you do have uSD for videos and whatnot.

    If they'd included the keyboard or something, it would be a much better proposition imsho.
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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    No ac Wifi support - bit disappointing considering its late 2013

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    No ac Wifi support - bit disappointing considering its late 2013
    How many 11ac access points have actually been sold though? I'd wager it's a very small market... most people don't even know the difference.

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Too expensive for RT I think.

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    AFAIK it isn't supported in the SnapDragon 800?
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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Looks like a really nice tablet. But I can't decide if it not having a full size USB port puts me off or not.

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Quote Originally Posted by jnutt View Post
    Too expensive for RT I think.
    You see you say that... But.

    For LTE equipped it isn't. If you need such a thing, rather than just hotspotting your phone, I guess that makes a difference, a 16gb iPad is $629, which is about equitable, the Nexus 10 LTE is meant to be about $400, but will lack expandable memory.

    Neither have Outlook or Office... However, for that you'll want their case with touchpad thing, so all of a sudden its probably into iPad territory.
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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    AFAIK it isn't supported in the SnapDragon 800?
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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Ah sorry that was in context to the 802.11ac question
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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    But it does look pretty good and it's quite thin.

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    AFAIK it isn't supported in the SnapDragon 800?
    Note 3, s4 both support Wifi ac

    Quote Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle View Post
    How many 11ac access points have actually been sold though? I'd wager it's a very small market... most people don't even know the difference.
    In context of how many people who buy routers over £100 then lots. In context of people using free routers supplied by ISP's , very few, but BT Home Hub 5 due December is rumored to support AC, and therefore Virgin and Sky will follow.

    So next year lots of people will start using AC wifi - so for a product being launched this late in 2013, it should support wifi AC...

    Considering Samsung high end devices do and HTC do too, its should be high on the important list.

    AC wifi makes a huge difference in speed and signal strength over N.

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Nice piece of kit, but yes.. The price is *not* right!

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    I think the price is ok, but the OS has no life in it. If it was not the RT model then maybe , but RT is nothing more than a Microsoft con and fleecing money out of people
    who don't know what they are really buying.

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    Good looking tab

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    Re: News - Nokia launches Lumia 2520 Windows RT 8.1 tablet at $499

    How does it compare with the Surface 2? Since this was the product in particular MS wanted to hold back when they bought Nokia, I wonder if it's been sabotaged slightly in the name of making the flagship Windows tablet look better

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