Nokia Booklet 3G is the first netbook from Nokia. The company tries to differentiate itself from the rest of the netbook crowd by building a Netbook with a top-notch construction quality, a small footprint, small weight (only 2.64lbs), and extremely long battery life. It also has a higher resolution display (1280×720) compared to other 10-inch netbook on the market.
Here’s the rundown of Nokia Booklet 3G’s specification:
- Atom Z530 1.6Ghz
- 1GB memory
- 120GB of local storage
- Windows 7 Home Premium (WEI 2.2)
- 10.1″ 1280×720 display
- Intel GMA 500 graphics
- 2 USB ports
- Integrated 3G (AT&T), WiFi-N
- No Ethernet port
- 264 x 185 x 19.9 mm, 1.2kg (2.64lbs)
By just looking at the specs, Nokia Booklet 3G seems like a pretty decent netbook.. unfortunately it’s not. Most reviews indicates that the performance of this netbook is pretty laggy. The major problem lies on its hard drive. It gets an HDD Score of 1793 in PCMark 05, which is twice slower than the HP Mini 311 hard drive. To give you an idea, a 7200rpm desktop drive can get a score of about 6600-7000. An Intel X25M SSD gets a whooping 18817. So with Nokia Booklet 3G, you can basically only do some basic productivity tasks.
Here’s a video by Ubergizmo that shows you some basic user interaction on Nokia netbook.. You will see that the performance is pretty lag.
Another big disadvantage of this netbook is the price. The Booklet is selling at Best Buy for $299.99 with two year Data Connect contract which ensures you’ll have 3G Internet in areas, presumably, where AT&T 3G is supported. It costs $599.99 without contract. Either option is still consider expensive compared to other netbooks on the market.
On the good side, the Nokia Booklet 3G is a good looking netbook. It’s thin and light. Also, the battery life is excellent — support up to 11 hours of usage in idle mode. But still, these factors don’t make the Nokia Booklet 3G a better choice than any of the netbooks in our top ten list.
Source: Ubergizmo, Crunchgear, CNet
The nerds are at it again. Do I care how long it takes to copy my hard drive? Do I care if it takes a couple more miliseconds to refresh my screen? Did I buy this to play games? Does the fact that it weighs next to nothing mean something, that the battery lasts like forever, that I’m connected virtually everywhere, that I can work on a spreadsheet, that I have a usable keyboard to jot an email to my kids. Those thing are important. You people who think an iPod (or similar) are the end all be all make me sick. I cut my teeth on a Xerox 820 running WordStar, SuperCalc and dBase and this Nokia is the best combination of functionality and value I’ve seen in 20 years.