Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told a Finnish television audience that his company is considering entering the competitive laptop market. Mobile phones and PCs are converging, Kallasvuo said. PC makers, including Acer and Dell, are looking at the smartphone market. Nokia already has the N810, an Internet tablet that runs Linux.

Nokia is exploring the possibilities of vying for a piece of the laptop market. The world's largest cell-phone manufacturer's CEO told a Finnish television audience that the company is "actively looking" at entering the laptop fray where Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Acer dominate.Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said he envisions the company moving deeper beyond its mobile -phone roots. Nokia has expanded its offerings over the past year with navigation, social-networking plays, and the Comes With Music offering. But a laptop would be an entirely new challenge -- or would it? Smartphones increasingly have PC-like capabilities.