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The former handset maker has now unveiled a new product that will run on Google’s mobile software.

Nokia has announced its official return to tablet commerce with the unveiling of a mobile device that will be running on the Android operating system, and will mark a return of the former smartphone manufacturer into the world of hardware.

This unveiling of the Nokia tablet came only a few short months after Microsoft purchased its handset business.

This new addition to the tablet commerce marketplace will be called the N1 and will be using Nokia’s own software on top of Android. This, according to the Nokia head of products, Sebastian Nystrom, who spoke in Helsinki at the Slush technology conference. The device will sell for $249 and will be both made and sold by the Foxconn Technology Group. The first release of the tablet will be in China, during the first quarter of next year, but Nokia expects that the N1 will become available in other markets not long afterward.

This entry into tablet commerce is just the latest in a number of sharp turns the company has taken.

Nokia has been around for 149 years and has managed to keep itself alive through its willingness to transform itself while hopping from one industry to the next, as necessary. Rajeev Suri has been its CEO since May and was behind the sale of the company’s mobile phone unit – which was bleeding money – to Microsoft, for around $7.5 billion. Suri is now stepping out from the wireless network equipment field, which currently makes up about 90 percent of the sales of this Finland based company.

Nystrom explained that “We wanted to start with something small that caters to our fans,” adding that “There is room for better products out there.”

In response to this announcement, the shares at Nokia rose immediately by 1.5 percent to reach 6.31 euros. The stock rose by 7.7 percent this year, already, giving a market value to the company of 23.6 billion euros ($30 billion). It will be interesting to watch the interest generated in the new tablet commerce offerings at Nokia once the product is available for purchase.

Omniretail at CA Com has released a report describing the growth of T-commerce.

The second screen has become a mainstream experience for the majority of consumers, and according to a recent report that has been released by CA Com, tablet commerce is taking off at an extremely promising rate.

The report looked into the developments that have been occurring over a range of different shopping channels.

According to the CEO of CA Com, Rodolphe Bonnasse, trade is undergoing an extremely rapid change, and over the last year, there has been a near doubling of the share of sales that have been occurring over the tablet commerce channel. This being the case, he added that it makes it quite difficult to be able to know exactly what the future will hold when it comes to shopping and what shoppers will actually want.

The new tablet commerce and shopping report is based on various channels of purchase used from 2013 through to this year.

The primary changes that have been seen in t-commerce since last year’s report include the following:

• The drive of tablet based shopping. In France, nearly 7 percent of consumers purchased through the use of their tablets. Last year, that figure was close to 4 percent, showing that the number has nearly doubled since that time.

• The position of sales over this device. Though still considered to be a niche market, it holds third place after shopping in person and shopping over a laptop or desktop computer in terms of a channel for making a direct purchase. Last year it represented 1 percent of the direct sales market, but now it is estimated to be closer to 10 percent in France, and growing.

• The choice of home delivery. The report showed that in France, 71 percent of shoppers chose to have their purchases shipped to their homes, as opposed to other options such as picking the item up in store or having it shipped to another location, when they have shopped over their mobile devices.

Bonnasse added that while there have been some challenges associated with the adoption of tablet commerce, at the same time, this considerable shift in shopping behaviors offers a great deal of potential to brands and companies.