The Nokia Booklet 3G battery design is based on from a Nokia 1000 mAh mobile phone battery. Building around this as a power source, Nokia has created a slim-line 16-cell removable battery that has been tested to give amazing 12 hours’ use. However, it’s more realistic to see around 8-10 hours over an average.

The chassis of the Nokia Booklet 3G is manufactured with a single piece of aircraft-grade aluminum, with no breaks or joins whatsoever. The chassis is part of the heat dispersal design of the netbook, as the device has no cooling fans. Nokia has abandoned the traditional way of cooling a portable computer, instead using passive heat sinks and relying heavily on the chassis as the largest one…innovation indeed!

We will have to see how the Booklet handles processor-intensive tasks, such as video encoding or even high-definition Flash playback.
The 10.1in glass display is similar to the first Asus Eee PC netbooks that came out way back in 2007. Those were a little blurry as a result of the cheapness of the build and the material used in TFT LCD technology. The Booklet’s screen doesn’t display an image that’s sharp and distinct. Despite of that the screen is capable of displaying a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels. This isn’t the normal resolution seen in 10in screens, as 1,024 x 600 is more commonly found in most netbook’s displays of this size.

The Booklet has a very slim design, and is one of the thinnest in its league. Its overall thickness is just 19.9mm, which is only five mm more than the thickness of the Macbook Air.

On the right-hand side of the Nokia Booklet there is a flap which has a SIM slot and SD card reader. The latter doesn’t support the higher capacity SDHC cards.

It Supports the built-in 3G/HSPA modem can only be used for data calls, over WCDMA 900/2100 or 800-850/900/2100 GSM. The netbook has the Intel Poulsbo US15W mobile chipset with HD PowerVR SGX graphics, all of which is driven by an Intel Z530 1.6GHz processor.

On the keyboard, the keys are well spaced out from each other. Booklet 3G also includes some goodies such as Nokia’s Ovi suite, access to Nokia’s Music for the PC, a 120GB Toshiba hard drive, HDMI and audio jack.
It is running on Windows 7, Nokia Booklet 3G will be available for buying by the end of October 2009. It is likely to be priced at €575 (£506).

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