Nokia lance une tablette Android abordable avec un écran 2K de 10,4 pouces

The return of Nokia to the phone market via HMD hasn’t quite been what most Nokia fans were hoping for, although the company has carved out a strange mid-range to low-end niche for itself. Now the company has announced its first tablet, called the T20 which ends up in the same kind of market space as most of its phones, although the pricing is somewhat attractive though.

The T20 sports a 10.4-inch display with a 1,200×2,000 pixel resolution and a rather unusual 5:3 ratio d'aspect. The back is made from aluminium and the screen is covered with toughened glass, although without any kind of fancy marketing name involved. The choice of SoC is rather interesting, as Nokia went with a Unisoc T610, which is already a couple of years old by now. Toutefois, it sports two Arm Cortex-A75 cores and six Cortex-A55, all clocked at 1.8 GHz, so it’s not a bottom shelf chip as such, although the Mali G52 MP2 GPU isn’t going to be amazing for more demanding games, considering the resolution of the display.

Nokia offers two main SKUs of the T20, although this appears to be region dependent. The difference is 4G support or not, but there are SKU’s with either 3 ou 4 GB of RAM and 32 ou 64 GB of storage, with a micro SD card slot offering support for up to 512 GB memory cards. Other features include 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, a USB-C port, although it’s limited to USB 2.0 data rates and a 3.5 prise audio mm. A pair of stereo speakers are built in and there’s support for Nokia’s OZO audio through a pair of built in microphones. A 5 Megapixel front facing camera and an 8 Megapixel rear camera with an LED flash rounds off the features. It should be noted that the 4G SKU also comes with GPS support.

The battery is rated at 8,200 mAh and is said to be good for between seven to 15 heures d'utilisation, en fonction de l'utilisation. Curieusement, Nokia only provides a 10 W charger, même si 15 W charging is supported. Nokia promises two years of OS updates, although as Android 11 is the shipping OS, it means that this isn’t as attractive as it could’ve been, although security updates are promised for an additional year.

Pricing starts at US$249.99 for the Wi-Fi only version, avec 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage and appears to be the only SKU the US market gets. En Europe, things are more complicated, as different countries have different pricing, but expect to pay around €249-269 for the maxed out 4G SKU and around €30-40 less for the Wi-Fi SKU. Nokia is only offering one colour option, which is Deep Ocean. Early reviews are indicating that the T20 delivers in terms of battery life and display, but that the performance could be better.