Nokia unveils Windows tablet, supersized smartphones

There's probably an apt metaphor in Nokia announcing its first connected Windows tablet and two new "phablet" devices Tuesday in far-far away Abu Dhabi. Nokia has to travel great distances to catch up to its Android and iOS rivals in the U.S.

Nokia's connected Windows tablet — it is LTE-capable along with Wi-Fi — is called the Lumia 2520. It sports a 10.1-inch HD display, a 6.7 megapixel camera, and Zeiss optics that Nokia says is a first for a tablet, promising excellent pictures even when shot in low light.

Indeed, one area Nokia has been generating a lot of noise these days is in photography, exemplified by the 41-megapixel sensor in the Lumia 1020 smartphone that came out earlier in the year.

Nokia says all the latest devices include very good cameras too, if not quite getting up to 41 megapixels.