In a stunning display of “out-of-touchness,” Nokia today unveiled something they call the “Booklet 3G” which is powered by an Intel Atom processor housed inside what looks like silver-colored plastic. It could be aluminum, we guess, but beyond wondering who knows, seriously, who cares?
Who designed this thing, Jeff Hawkins?
Promising “up to 12 hours of battery life,” Nokia’s new “Booklet 3G” weighs 1.25 kilograms, measures slightly more than two centimeters thick, and includes 3G/ HSPA and Wi-Fi along with Nokia’s suite of Ovi services including access and playback of music tracks through the Nokia Music Store and using Ovi Suite to sync with Nokia smartphones. Ooh.
The thing also comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera “for video calling,” integrated Bluetooth and an SD card reader. The device also has a 10-inch glass “HD-ready display,” integrated A-GPS, and, of course, two space-wasting mechanical buttons under its trackpad.
Further information, including detailed specifications, market availability and pricing, to be announced at Nokia World on September 2.
And, oh yeah, it runs Windows. Yes, Windows. What flavor is anybody’s guess for now.
Nokia’s official press release is here.
MacDailyNews Take: Foleo-rific! If laughter is the best medicine, then today, thanks to Nokia, Steve Jobs must be feeling mighty fine.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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Ouch. I think they should’ve stuck Symbian on it instead
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@MDN Take
If he laughed as hard as me, he’s probably holding his liver in his hand right now.
LOL – April fool???
Or are they seriously making this thing???
Ooooh no. I’ll wait for the forthcoming Apple secret device, thanks. Such a pity about the OS. The spec sheet wouldn’t be too substandard otherwise.
This has to be a joke!
I dunno about jobs holding his liver cuz it popped out when he was rofl-ing but I’m definetly holding mine o.O bahahaha windows mobile FTL
Utter catastrophe for Nokia. What a fukin boondoggle.
They aren’t even using their own OS on this thing? That must make Symbian developers feel really, really happy and confident in the future.
Is this how MS delivers Office to Nokia, via WinMo?
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“In a stunning display of “out-of-touchness”
LMAO
This is a good early jab, all the drone consumers will eat it up, because the drone salesman at cell phone and electronics stores will say how great it is because they’ll get $25 for each one they heave out the door. Nokia will make a couple bucks.
I love how Apple is completely separate from the backwards, slow market that has developed for almost any product.
Now, if only Apple would make a Vehicle and destroy the retarded zero-innovation cycle we’re stuck in.
From the press release:
The Nokia Booklet 3G will widen the Nokia portfolio, satisfying a need in the operator channel, and bringing another important ingredient in the move towards becoming a mobile solutions company.
Who needs this? It’s not a phone. It’s not a notebook. If you need a phone, this won’t do. If you don’t need a phone, or are willing to carry an extra device to get more functions, there are more robust devices out there. This smells like an idea looking for a market.
But you have got to read this fluff piece:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/08/24/nokia-booklet-3g-10-ways-it-beats-a-netbook-115875-21621438/
I think I laughed even harder.
Note – it appears to be running Windows, not WinMo, so it’s a full-featured netbook w/ 3G. Looks like an early shot into the oversized-iphone / tablet / mac touch market that Apple’s rumored to be launching into soon.
They should have at least used their Linux Maemo OS on this netbook device.
Chunky li’l critter!
They’ve taken numerous cards from Apple’s playbook on this one, but Windows? Such a shame.
Interesting.
Well, at least Nokia are trying to broaden their horizons… The iPhone & Apple need all the competition they can get, imagine the products Apple would come out with if they were under stress to innovate on a dramatic scale…
This is undoubtedly the future of notebooks (GPS/HSDPA etc. – not the crummy plastic enclosure and WinBlows OS), but I doubt they’ll have much luck with this device though.
I see actually no reason why Nokia’s miniputer would be worse than say Dell’s, looks pretty nice actually except for the fact it’s running Windows which ruins everything.
Nokia will do some money with this and that’s all they care about, no reason to Apple fans to get concerned with their daily-bashing-of-non-apple entities this time
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LOL. It’s nearly an inch thick!
Am I the only one to put together that this could be responsible for many of the tablet supply chain rumors?
>>10″ displays ordered by large CE company<<
>>Atom processors for major new mobile product<<
>>New platform linked to and supported by mobile network providers<<
We Apple devotees may recognize this as just another half-arsed stab in the dark, put yourself in the head of the average IT prognosticator (painfully cramped, I know): they could really think this is a great new innovation!
Interesting how they try to make it look kindasorta like the current MacBook Pros – silver body (mostly), black frame around the display.
Of course they’re going the cheapo route with plastic that only *looks* like aluminum, but it’s pretty obvious what they’re trying to emulate visually.
@ HoldYourHorses
Nokia will do some money with this and that’s all they care about, no reason to Apple fans to get concerned with their daily-bashing-of-non-apple entities this time
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I expect – nay, demand – my daily dose of non-Apple-entity bashing!
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What’s it for for?
I all read have a Mac Book Pro… who needs it?