Nokia Booklet 3G: Photos of Nokia's netbook

By Rich Trenholm on 24 August 2009, 2:04pm

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Just when you thought the world didn't need any more netbooks, up pops the Nokia Booklet 3G. It's a 10-inch mini-laptop with design and specs that seem to place it closer to the MacBook Air than your typical cheap and cheerful netbook.

The screen is a glass display that Nokia says is HD Ready for watching in high definition. It also includes A-GPS, which uses the phone signal to get a fix on your location faster, integrated with Nokia's Ovi Maps. Other Ovi features include Ovi Suite for syncing between phone, netbook and the cloud, as well as access to the Nokia Music Store.

The Booklet 3G has the potential to be decently tricked-out for a netbook. So far we know it has an Intel Atom processor, although not how fast this will run, an HDMI port, 3G and the faster 802.11n Wi-Fi, which is unusual for a netbook. More specs, and hopefully pricing, will be announced by Nokia next week, although the claimed 12 hours of battery life has got our attention.

Archos is making a phone, now Nokia is making a netbook -- has the world turned upside down? Nokia reckons the Booklet 3G is "another important ingredient in the move towards becoming a mobile solutions company". Thanks for that. Click 'Continue' to see more pictures, or watch Nokia's own video.

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weetanhops 24 August, 2009 14:06

The processor is a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Z530, but I have no idea on the GPU.

I can't see why Nokia don't use Maemo, I thought they were developing it for "flagship devices". Hmm

jamesfed 24 August, 2009 14:27

Maybe something running on nVidia Ion?

DavidRGilson 24 August, 2009 16:42

The best info I've read so far today said that Maemo isn't compiled for the Intel platform and the cost of doing so would have been "prohibitive". So given Window's ubiquity, it's the next best option.

Do find it a little hard to swallow that it was "prohibitive" port Maemo to Intel hardware, it would have been great to see Maemo in something other than the Nxxx tablets.

As we've been discussing on the forums, netbooks are a tad frustrating because while the form factor is compelling, it's difficult to type effectively on them, and the low-price advantage ebbed away. Given how much 'gubbins' this one will have, I can quite imagine there'll be some basic 15" laptops that will be cheaper than this, but that is my pure and simple guess.

anonymous 25 August, 2009 09:18

This looks nice. Has certainly piqued my interest more than any other netbook I've seen. Not that I want a netbook.

anonymous 2 September, 2009 08:49

looks pretty interesting. I shall be getting one I think once I see the data package options from the operators. 12 hours of battery life and an HD screen - count me in! I did have a funny thought when i first saw the images - quite Apple like (which is of course a compliment!) and maybe Nokia decided to offer the netbook which Apple decided against (since Apple needs a 40% gross margin on all their products to keep their share price high).

anonymous 4 September, 2009 22:09

Should develope their own version of Opensolaris for enterprise to beat RIM.Windows 7 will not differentiate it enough.Most buyers will buy on price with windows machines as they are all the same.With telco convergence operating system is as critical selling point as on all smart phones.Windows failed in this market before explore other options asap! This company bombed with the N97 by over expectation of this product with a very weak brand and an out of date OS.Switch to android for a future.