Nokia Booklet 3G: Full Specs & Pricing Released Comments

can i play left 4 dead on it? 12 hours of left 4 dead sounds nice.

I was very interested in this, but a SIM free price of £500 is far too steep.

This sim free price is actually lower than many of Nokia's premium hi-tec handsets (N96 for example). I guess the problem is that no-one would use this as their phone, so will still have to buy one as well.

Still looks very good - but not at £500 - would like to see what some of the 3rd party suppliers will be able to sell it for.

@ purephase regarding still needing a phone - everyone with a current netbook still needs a phone so that point is rather irrelevant.

It looks nice, it's connected well.. Shame about the RAM, HDD and lack of optical drive. It just goes even further in proving how good those Sony T-series lapintops really are for the size vs capability argument.

I would have been tempted but for 1) more RAM, 2) capable HDD and 3) internal Optical Drive.

I still use the three in great abundance/proficiency, and i ain't about to give them up yet..

Also, i thought Nokia would intro their own OS with these babies - i guess it was too much to ask. So the Nokia premium in this case pays for built-in 3G and a third-party-sourced graphics chip.. £500 sim-free is a lot of money for that. For that money i'll go for a PAYG iPhone and enjoy a better mobile experience.

For £500 it should have a good SSD, £500 for a 4,200rpm HDD machine is ridiculous.

"PowerVR - makers of the graphics unit in the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre among many others"
including the Dreamcast, if I remember correctly ;).

Mmm, I like the Booklet's featureset (apart from the RAM), but the price is higher than I'd hoped. Sticking with NC10.

In fact, for that price (and swinging back towards phones -sorry ThaDon) I'd probably go for the N900 instead.

THIS WILL NOT RUN FOR 12 HOURS - you can quote me on that and prove me wrong if you wish but I seriously doubt this espcially if you actually use the computer eg GPS 3G etc

@ drdark: Having experienced what Nokia are offering on their touch-based mobile computing devices, i'd stick to something that allows me to be efficient at both work & play, hence iPhone. Not the first, not the be-all and end-all, just the best of the current bunch by a country mile..

Although having said that, the new gen of Android phones would swing my vote if they were happy to play with OSX :D

The specs look fairly enticing, but the price is way too steep. If you take £500, you could get a Samsung NC10 and a PAYG 3G dongle (from the likes of Vodafone), and still have loads of cash to spare. If it had a full touchscreen, then it might be justifiable, but as it stands, you'd really have to have more money than sense to get one.

I think I would rather have the new N900 soon to be released for £500 smackers, but good to finally see some Netbook evolution!!

Yep £500 is just too high of a premium. They are probably using 1.8" instead of standard 2.5" hard drives which explains the low capacity and slow 4200rpm to keep the weight and dimensions down.

@ThaDon: I understand where you're coming from, but it must also be noted than the N900 is their new Maemo(linux-based) OS and not Symbian. Check out youtube. The latest videos look very tasty indeed.

Oh, also, I still prefer my physical E71 keyboard over any touch screen I've used so far, and I hate the iPhone with a passion :).

1G non upgradeable ram seems low for windows 7 to run really well. As a premium netbook it could have been tempting with 2 gig ram on a decent telco plan.

I guess what I was trying to say - but from ThaDon's smackdown I didn't get across is that I don't see why Nokia can't distribute these on standard contracts like they do a high end phone handset. i.e. £30ish a month on a 18 month contract with the computer thrown in. If you compare that to spending £350-400 upfront on a nice netbook and then buy a 3G dongle on top then it comes out quite favourably over time.