The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive but fast-growing market with a netbook running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
It said that the Best Buy will sell its first laptop for the U.S. and the price of that laptop is $300 with a two-year AT&T wireless plan when it goes on sale next week. A Finland Company named as Espoo said that the small laptops is known as netbooks and the cost of such netbooks would be $600 for customers who opt out of the AT&T contract. Nokia’s first laptop has Intel’s Atom processor, run Microsoft’s Windows software and 10-inch screen. The weight of this Nokia’s first laptop is 2.8 pounds.
Nokia had earlier this year said it was considering entering the laptop industry, crossing the border between two converging industries in the opposite direction to Apple, which entered the phone industry in 2007 with the iPhone.
Nokia has seen its profit margins drop over the last quarters as handset demand has slumped, and analysts have worried that entering the PC industry, where margins are traditionally razor-thin, could hurt Nokia's profits further.
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