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    Nokia Booklet 3G Specs Include Intel Atom Chip, 12 Hours of Battery Life

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    Michelle Maisto
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    September 2, 2009
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      As promised, from Nokia World 09 in Stuttgart, Germany, Nokia has released specification details about the Booklet 3G netbook, the Finnish phonemaker’s first foray into the (financially) challenging world of PCs.
      “We have gone into this with our eyes wide open,” said Kai Oistamo, Nokia’s executive vice president of devices, when first introducing the mini laptop.
      One of the more exciting details about the Booklet 3G is the 12 hours of battery it’s said to offer, and which Nokia seems serious about. It’s no small things to tell business professionals, as Nokia does on its Conversations blog: “Charge it and go – no need to worry about taking your charger with you.”
      The Booklet 3G is constructed from a single piece of machined aluminum, weighs 2.75 pounds and measures 10.4 by 7.3 by 0.8 inches. Color options at launch will be black, white and blue.
      The glass display measures 10.1 inches and offers a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, and there’s built-in WLAN and WWAN connectivity for connecting to Wi-Fi or cellular networks, as well as an easily accessible SIM card for allowing users to connect to 3G/HSPA networks. There’s also assisted GPS.
      On the inside is a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor and Intel Poulsbo US15W chip set with a fanless design. There’s 1GB of 533Mhz DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory, and a 120GB, 1.8-inch SATA hard drive with an 8MB cache and 4200rpm.
      The Booklet 3G runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 Starter Edition, though Home Premium or Professional are also options, and Nokia services, including Ovi Suite 2.0, Nokia Music for PC, Ovi Maps and Nokia’s Social Hub, for keeping track of social software feeds, are all integrated. Over the air, the netbook can also sync calendar, contacts and media details with a mobile device.
      There’s a 1.3-megapixel webcam with microphone, and an accelerometer, plus 3 USB slots, an HDMI 1.2 out slot, a 3.5mm headset jack and an SD card reader. Current pricing is 575 Euro, or approximately $817 US.
      “The list of features for the Booklet is fairly impressive and that’s reflected in Nokia’s pricing. The Booklet is a premium netbook targeted at affluent prosumers for a premium US$800 price-point,” analyst Neil Mawston, with Strategy Analytics, told eWeek.
      “In some ways, the Booklet is adopting an Apple-like strategy; pack a good-looking device with leading-edge features and charge consumers an above-average price,” Mawston added. “The relatively high pricing means the Booklet is not a mass-market offering, but its impressive range of features does give Nokia a favorable first entry into the high-end netbook and mid-range notebook markets.”

      Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi finds the Booklet 3G not quite unique enough. “Looking at the price, Nokia needs more differentiation to stand out in the crowd. Something like adding Comes With Music would help [to differentiate it],” she told eWEEK.
      Nonetheless, Nokia has staged something of a comeback this year – if such a term can be applied to the number one global handset maker. With market share falling, it brought its flagship N97 smartphone to the U.S. this summer, followed by news of the Booklet 3G and, on Aug. 27, the introduction of the N900, a robust, high-end smartphone running on the Linux-based Maemo operating system.
      Various Web sites are announcing that the N900, along with the Booklet 3G, will arrive in select markets in late October, following the Microsoft Windows 7 Oct. 22 release, though Nokia has yet to confirm this.

      EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been altered to include additional analyst perspectives.

      Michelle Maisto
      Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.
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