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Post subject: Hands-On: Nokia Booklet 3G Promises Monster Battery Life 
The netbook market is red-hot, and it’s no surprise that it’s attracting new entrants. The Booklet 3G is a shot from Nokia, the world’s largest handset manufacturer.
Nokia is trying to blur the line between smartphones and notebooks. While the Booklet 3G is a late entrant to an overcrowded party, it has a few things going for it including the design and its promise of an epic 12-hour battery life.
The Booklet 3G is the first PC from Nokia, and it’s a head-turner. Smooth as silk, the netbook has an aluminum chassis and a glossy mirrorlike finish. The device is slim (about 20mm thick) and weighs just 2.76 pounds. It has nicely rounded edges that give it a sleek, polished look and comes in three colors: blue, black and white.
The Booklet’s keyboard is well laid-out with keys that offer excellent tactile feedback and a trackpad that’s not overly sensitive.
But here’s the real stand-out feature. The Booklet has a 16-cell battery, which means a whopping 12 hours of usage time — enough for a round-trip flight between San Francisco and New York.
The battery is where, Nokia says, it has brought its design expertise. Sixteen cells is the most we have seen in a netbook so far, and on the Booklet the extra heft doesn’t show. The user-removable battery is slim and blends into the netbook beautifully.
The Booklet 3G is one of the few netbooks available on contract with a telecom carrier. AT&T will offer it for $300 with a $60-per-month data contract for two years. If that’s too much for you, Best Buy plans to offer an unlocked, unsubsidized version for $600.
Under the hood, the Booklet runs an Intel Atom Z530 1.6-GHz processor on a Windows 7 operating system. That will make it one of the first few netbooks to ship with Microsoft’s latest OS.
The Booklet 3G also comes with 1 GB RAM, a 120-GB hard disk drive and a 10-inch display. For connectivity, the netbook features an HDMI port, three USB ports, a headphone/microphone jack and a slot for SD card readers.
Since it runs the Windows 7 operating system, which launches Oct. 22, it’s likely the netbook will release around then. The Booklet also includes Nokia’s Ovi software for easy synchronization between Nokia phones and the netbook.
Overall, we would say Nokia nailed the design and the battery life. But the cost makes it more expensive than Dell, HP, MSI and Asus or any of the other devices out there.
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