It has been rumoured for some time that Nokia is currently developing new Windows 8 powered tabletsto add to its range of hardware. Now a couple of patents have revealed more details about how the new Nokia Windows 8 tablets might be constructed.

The Nokia patents reveal two designs and suggest that the new Nokia Windows 8 tablets may incorporate an extended N9 unibody design, if details within the patents granted to Nokia on March 15, 2011, are to be considered.

The two Windows 8 Nokia tablet designs haven’t been officially confirmed or denied by Nokia at the present time, but the patent covering the two designs definitely provides evidence that Nokia is considering manufacturing a tablet, with possible construction details for Nokia’s up-and-coming Windows 8 tablet taking the form of the images below.

Unfortunately no information on pricing or worldwide availability has been released as yet regards any Nokia Windows 8 tablet, but as soon as information comes to light we will keep you updated as always.

Microsoft out their new Surface tablet yesterday, the entry level version of the Microsoft Surface, which will retail for $499 has sold out in under 24 hours, and Microsoft are now showing the device shipping within three weeks.

Although Microsoft did state when they put the device up for pre-order that inventory would be limited initially, there are no details as yet how many tablets Microsoft made for pre-order.

yesterday we heard that Microsoft are rumored to be making between three and five million surface tablets before the end of the year, we wonder if demand for the surface will be high enough for Microsoft to sell that many tablets before the end of 2012.