Following the unveiling of its Lumia smartphone series last month, giant mobile phone maker Nokia has indicated that it will release tablet computers by the second half of 2012, which of course will be powered by Microsoft' upcoming Windows 8.

In a recent interview with French daily Les Echos, Nokia France chief Paul Amsellem revealed that the Finnish firm will definitely join the tablet computer competition by next year and again, Microsoft will be its lead partner.

"In June 2012, we will have a tablet running Windows 8," Amsellem told the French publication in a declaration that will make Nokia as one of the first to adapt the operating system that Microsoft hopes to deploy early next year.

The move, however, tech analysts said, will leave Nokia with two mobile OS that run on its future smartphones and tablets that are set to collide head-on with competitions that are either standing on iOS or Android, both of which are unified platforms with almost seamless functionalities between the two gadgets.

Yet in a report, CNET said that Nokia is hard-pressed to enter the tablet computer market soon lest its rival will pull too far away without the company putting up a significant fight.

One downside though of having two platforms on its products, experts noted, could be Nokia's difficulty to lure app developers in creating softwares that function both on Windows Phone and Windows 8.

As opposed to Apple and Google, both of which enjoy considerable headways in terms of available apps for their gadgets, CNET has commented that app developers are bound to encounter complexities in designing applications that can be accommodated on the two Windows operating system.

Yet in a recent comment, Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop downplayed the projected issues that Windows would likely create among the developers community.

"From an ecosystem perspective, there are benefits and synergies that exist between Windows and Windows Phone ... and we see that opportunity. We'll certainly consider those opportunities, going forward," Elop was reported by CNET as saying during an interview on October.

Nokia, however, remains mum on its upcoming tablet offering as the company suggested that no definite plans have yet been hatched regarding its prospective foray in the industry currently dominated by Apple and other tablet computer manufacturers relying on Android for their hardware's platform.