Booklet 3G - different in brand

The difference and highlights of the Nokia netbook are " amazing " price - $ 599, but in return the machine has a high-end design, supports many mobile connections.

The " giant " in the Nokia mobile phone manufacturing industry is also " squeezing " into the netbook market, which has been flooded with products with mini-laptop Booklet 3G. In the US, users can buy a machine with a contract to use the service with AT&T network for 2 years at a " friendly " price of $ 299.

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Nokia Booklet 3G netbook has a high price " overwhelming " compared to the configuration.
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In terms of design, in fact, Nokia Booklet 3G deserves to be one of the most advanced and strong netbooks, but quite light. The keyboard frame looks thick and rough but gives the keys a solid feel. There are 3 color options for the case, white, black and blue. Glossy case of Booklet 3G is easy to attach to dust and save fingerprints.

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Nokia Booklet 3G looks much thicker and coarser than a popular 10-inch netbook.
(Photo: Cnet).

Different from the design trend of making models as thin as possible, Nokia netbooks are thicker and coarser with clear viewing angles. As the name suggests, look like a thick book is closed. Inside the keyboard only, even the power key is pushed to the right side, next to the SD card slot and SIM card.

Keyboard of Booklet 3G is quite difficult to use by small keys, easy to mistake. While many other netbooks try to arrange a keyboard with the largest size keys possible. In contrast, the device's touchpad is wider and easier to use, but a small problem is that the cursor speed changes erratically when running Windows 7.

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Keyboard of Booklet 3G is quite difficult to use by small keys. (Photo: Cnet) .

The 10.1-inch screen of the Nokia netbook has a high resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels, which is mirror-coated to the edges but there is still separation with the protective edge, not the " edge-to-edge " design as in Apple Macbook laptop.

Besides the standard Wi-Fi connection, Nokia Booklet 3G also supports mobile connections using SIM card. Comes with the device with Ovi networking software preinstalled on the Windows 7 operating system.

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Nokia netbook has the same hardware configuration as a popular netbook. (Photo: Cnet) .

High-end design, supports many mobile connections, but the hardware configuration of the equivalent netbook is only equipped with Intel Atom Z530 1.6 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD speed of 4,200 rounds / minute. According to Cnet, with the above configuration, Booklet 3G proved to be a bit slow when running Windows 7 even when executing basic applications that opened many websites and at the same time running Microsoft Office software. Test results show that Nokia netbooks also lose to popular netbooks that use faster processors such as Intel Atom N270 and N280.

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Booklet 3G implements multiple weak tasks (the bar represents the shorter the better). (Photo: Cnet) .

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With heavy applications such as Photoshop, Booklet 3G seems a bit " drowsy ".
(The bar indicates the shorter, the better). (Photo: Cnet) .

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Booklet 3G's battery life is 7 hours 14 minutes with a 12-cell battery. In the above table is the bar
indicates the operating time of the 3D Booklet, the longer the bar, the better. (Photo: Cnet).

The battery life of the device is 7 hours 14 minutes of continuous video playback with the 16-cell "terrible" battery, which is noticeably better than the 6-cell battery netbook. But this is also a convincing result.

These preliminary evaluations may discourage Nokia fans who are eager to own the Finnish carrier's first netbook.

Currently in the US, 3G Booklet is provided by AT&T network for $ 299 with network contract, while the standalone version is priced at $ 599. Nokia netbooks have not yet appeared in Vietnam market.