Nokia has had a habit of making amazing looking sites for even some minor hyping up stuff.
I especially remember that event year or two ago that had this timer running down and this amazing flash site with codes to crack and games that you needed to unlock to get these crazy videos supposedly hinting something.

...it ended being some Tshirts for the winners who answered right on the puzzles.


I don't know the videos and site does not scream Nokia to me, it could be anything. There's nothing really hinting towards Nokia other than couple of Nokia related people following them on twitter.....

Don't know if it's anything relavent but the company address for is (also?) in Washington State. Info from www.whois.com - they kinda asked us to do that search, right?

Yawn - yet another tablet

On the blog there is a message posted by TabCo CEO. It does not sound too Elopian.
Word eco$i$tem does not appear anywhere...

So let's wait and see.

You really think they take all the effort creating such a viral marketing campaign, but reveal their true identity through a whois entry (like let´s say "Finland" for example...)?

Hmm no idea if it's relevant but I was reading this comment
from mynokiablog.com:

"DGui says:
July 8, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Just updated my blog. Found a Nokia engineer talking about the ‘aha moment’, he works at the Research branch of the Silicon Valley Nokia, near SanFran that was mentioned by TabCo as a place where a milestone happened. Etc… As mentioned above the domain was registered near Redmond, Windows 8 running tablet?…"

then I went to DGui's blog and I read:

Dr Quinn Jacobson, speaks of the ‘Aha Moment’ several times, I’m guessing we’re heading more there. He has worked at Intel and Sun Microsystems and is a leader in processor architecture. Read his post below:
“ Posted by Quinn Jacobson, June 19, 2010
I am a junky for that “aha” moment of finding an solution to a technical puzzle."

The Nokia engineer name DGui is talking about is Quinn Jacobson

...and from the whoistabco web site:

"Ian Quincy (aka IQ) is the founder and CEO of TabCo..."

Quinn Jacobson - Ian Quincy... hmm

[edit]

"Full details on specific country availability will be made available in the coming weeks."

It can't be a Windows 8 tablet then, I'm still hoping it's MeeGo

think it will have a swipe UI kinda like N9, Nokia was clear that would live on but would not say in what form?
Nokia have been talking a lot about not releasing just another tablet and being the 201st with nothing new and will look to bring something different to the market unlike the other 200, TabCo seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet as Nokia.

I have high hopes for this *not* being a MS shill project. Why?
Try going to a 404'd page on that site. You'll see they're eunning Ubuntu. That's actually a fairly rare server OS - You'd expect Debian, CentOS, RHEL or *shudder* MS Windows Server/IIS.

If the company was a MS company, you bet they'd be running IIS, because their devs would know it. And if they were trying to fake people out, they'd probably use, say, CentOS. Not Ubuntu.

Another thing that's caught my eye is the Canvas UI they talk about on TabCo b/c maemo 6/ harmattan was meant to originally have Canvass desktop the same
as you can see stated in these slide shows below.
http://www.allaboutmeego.com/news/it...the_Maemo_.php

If its Nokia I think we could see Harmattan on a tablet but with Homescreen Like the original Canvas Harmattan one for smartphones.

I don't believe for a sec that we will see MeeGo tablet from Nokia and W8 tablet is way too early to be announced yet. It would be in Nokia World in October at earliest and even that would be too early imo.

Personally don't still see any reason for this being Nokia rather than any other well known mobile company or some unknown. I would love to see Nokia's take on tablets be it MeeGo, Harmattan or W8.