{"id":39317,"date":"2009-11-10T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123140"},"modified":"2009-11-10T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T15:00:36","slug":"review-nokia-booklet-3g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39317","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nokia Booklet 3G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/scaled.P1040138-620x464.jpg\" alt=\"scaled.P1040138\" title=\"scaled.P1040138\" width=\"620\" height=\"464\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123142\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Short Version:<\/b> When Nokia first announced their Netbook 3G, expectations were mixed. After all, Nokia defined the mobile phone space but they&#8217;ve hardly been good at expanding out of the handset market. My take? This is a bit too underpowered and a bit too generic to be a truly great Nokia product but, given the price ($299 with contract) it may be a nice tertiary computer for on-the-go users.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-123140\"><\/span><\/p>\n<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t<\/style>\n<p>\t\t<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php --><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-123140'>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/10\/review-nokia-booklet-3g\/scaled-p1040138\/' title='scaled.P1040138'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/scaled.P1040138-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"scaled.P1040138\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/10\/review-nokia-booklet-3g\/scaled-p1040141\/' title='scaled.P1040141'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/scaled.P1040141-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"scaled.P1040141\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/10\/review-nokia-booklet-3g\/scaled-p1040142\/' title='scaled.P1040142'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/scaled.P1040142-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"scaled.P1040142\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/10\/review-nokia-booklet-3g\/scaled-p1040139\/' title='scaled.P1040139'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/scaled.P1040139-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"scaled.P1040139\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\t\t\t<br style='clear: both;' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\n<b>Well, It&#8217;s Small<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the smallest netbooks I&#8217;ve had the pleasure to carry. It weighs less than three pounds and is about 12 inches long. It is quite thin and the 10-inch, 1280&#215;720 pixel screen is covered in glossy glass. The keyboard us tucked tight against the screen giving you about four inches of palm space on the wrist-rest\/trackpad portion versus the same space for all the keys. <\/p>\n<p>The model we tested had a 120GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, and a Intel Atom Z530 Processor running at 1.6 GHz. I has an SD card slot, SIM slot, and supports WiFi and Bluetooth. It includes an HDMI out port and a 1.3 megapixel camera. It is made of lightweight aluminum and has a definite MacBook feel except for the rounded front and top. <\/p>\n<p>It also includes integrated A-GPS and GPS along with Ovi Maps, Nokia&#8217;s mapping software. It runs Windows 7 Starter edition. More on that shortly.<\/p>\n<p><b>So what is this thing?<\/b><br \/>\nIf your first question about the Booklet 3G is &#8220;Where can I buy it?&#8221; you may be slightly surprised. The Booklet is selling at Best Buy for $299.99 with two year Data Connect contract which ensures you&#8217;ll have 3G Internet in areas, presumably, where AT&#038;T 3G is supported. It costs $599.99 without contract.<\/p>\n<p>What you&#8217;re essentially buying here, then, is one of the first carrier subsidized netbooks. The question, here, then is whether to buy one of AT&#038;Ts other mobile offerings for about $300 (*cough* iPhone *cough*) or a laptop with a keyboard and Windows 7. Call me old fashioned, but my money is still on a 3G phone when it comes to anything with a screen and a Mi-Fi dongle when it comes to portable networking. To lock yourself into one laptop for two years, especially one so underpowered, is, unfortunately, folly.<\/p>\n<p>The Booklet scored 2.2 on the Windows Experience Index which puts it in the same classification as that old Dell in the closet or a potato ricer. It got 774 on GeekBench, a fairly lackadaisical score considering the year old <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/06\/26\/first-look-msi-wind-update\/\">MSI Wind<\/A> scored 837.<\/p>\n<p>The question, then, is whether this thing is a really big cellphone or a small, underpowered laptop. Given that you can&#8217;t make calls on it, I&#8217;m aiming for the latter. The buy-in required to own it is also a bit onerous. <\/p>\n<p><b>Bad News: It&#8217;s Laggy<\/b><br \/>\nThe biggest problem I found was lag. Closing a window takes a few seconds while browsing the web is an exercise in frustration. Because the processor can&#8217;t render pages fast enough you find yourself waiting quite a bit. YouTube videos took quite a while to load while other Flash load times were interminable. Netbooks were designed for web use and this is one slow web device.<\/p>\n<p>The trackpad buttons are also a bit hard to press, which adds insult to laggy injury.<\/p>\n<p><b>Good News: It literally lasts for hours<\/B><br \/>\nAt first couldn\u2019t test the battery on this thing because I didn\u2019t have enough time to sit around and watch it. This laptop literally keeps going and going. It\u2019s rated for 12 hours and I saw about 10 hours in movie playback. That\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p><b>So who is it good for?<\/b><br \/>\nI feel that the Booklet is an odd chimera by any standard. It&#8217;s a netbook by one of the most famous cellphone makers and it&#8217;s subsidized like a cellphone but is not worth its unsubsidized price. In a nutshell, it doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is a market out there for subsidized netbooks. Perhaps a fleet of these things given out to a sales force in lieu of BlackBerrys might make sense. However, I&#8217;d be hard-pressed to find a mobile professional who wants to skimp on processor power to get WWAN capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>I think devices like the Booklet are filling a hole in the market that will soon be overtaken by standalone, wireless WWAN-to-WiFi devices or, dare I say it, WiMax dongles. Until then, devices like this will fill that void although I feel that the end user will be underserved with these devices.<\/p>\n<p>However, Nokia has proven it can make and build a nice netback, all things being equal, for the low end of the market. Is it a dream device? 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