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Nokia Booklet 3G brings all day mobility to the PC world
August 24, 2009

Espoo, Finland - After more than 25 years as a pioneer and leader in the mobile industry, Nokia will bring its rich mobility heritage and knowledge to the PC world with the new, Windows based, Nokia Booklet 3G.

Powered by the efficient Intel Atom processor, the Nokia Booklet 3G delivers impressive performance with up to 12 hours of battery life, enabling people to leave their power cable behind and still be connected and productive. Delivering the rich experience of a full-function PC inside an ultra-portable aluminum chassis, the new mini-laptop weighs 1.25 kilograms, measures slightly more than two centimeters thin, and has the features one would expect from the world's leading mobile device manufacturer. A broad range of connectivity options - including 3G/ HSPA and Wi-Fi - gives consumers high speed access to the Internet, including Nokia's broad suite of Ovi services, and allows them to make the most of every moment and every opportunity.

"A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Devices. "We are in the business of connecting people and the Nokia Booklet 3G is a natural evolution for us. Nokia has a long and rich heritage in mobility and with the outstanding battery life, premium design and all day, always on connectivity, we will create something quite compelling. In doing so we will make the personal computer more social, more helpful and more personal."

The mini-laptop also comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera for video calling, integrated Bluetooth and an easily accessible SD card reader. Other premium features include the 10-inch glass HD ready display and integrated A-GPS which, working with the Ovi Maps gadget, can pinpoint your position in seconds and open up access for a truly personal maps experience. The Nokia Booklet 3G also brings a number of other rich Ovi experiences to life, whether its access and playback of millions of tracks through the Nokia Music Store, or using Ovi Suite to sync seamlessly from your Nokia smartphone, to your mini-laptop, to the cloud.

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.

Further information, including detailed specifications, market availability and pricing, will be announced at Nokia World on September 2. For more information on Nokia World, visit: http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/home.htm

Nokia Press Release

 

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While Nokia dropped hints as far back as February that it would be getting into the netbook market, the decision to go with a Wintel software/hardware stack may come as a surprise given all of the resources the company has dedicated to Linux and ARM development over the years. Nokia pioneered the Mobile Internet Device (MID)/Internet tablet segment with the 770 Internet Tablet and its successors, the N800 and N810. All three of those devices use Maemo, Nokia's Debian-based Linux platform, and run on ARM-based OMAP processors. Nokia released the Maemo 5 SDK beta this past May, which intends to get the most out of the TI OMAP3 CPU.

Maemo is designed to run on small touchscreen devices, but there's no reason it couldn't be adapted for netbooks, à la Android. There are other ARM-based options available, including an Ubuntu ARM port, an effort strongly backed by Nokia. So the software part of the equation is there for Nokia—or just about.

The biggest challenge for a Nokia Linux-ARM netbook at this point is the hardware. As we pointed out in February, the two best options for Nokia in terms of hardware are the TI OMAP3 and OMAP4 CPUs. The highest-profile win for the OMAP3 so far is the Palm Pre. What the OMAP3 lacks, however, is the sufficient raw processing power for the kind of netbook envisioned by the Nokia Booklet 3G.

There's a 45nm OMAP3 on the way, but a process ramp won't be sufficient to address all of the OMAP3's performance shortcomings. Nokia is likely to instead wait for the OMAP4 before launching a smartbook. The OMAP4 will run at speeds of over 1GHz, will be built on a 45nm process, and will provide sufficient smartbook horsepower. It's not slated to go into volume production until the second half of 2010, however.

With the netbook scene exploding, Nokia obviously believes that the time is right for it to get in on the action. And since its ARM+Linux homebrew needs some more fermentation before being uncorked, Nokia is counting on a combination of the latest Intel and Microsoft offerings as well as some solid industrial design to make an impact in the market. But don't rule out a Nokia smartbook using Maemo or Ubuntu running on an OMAP4 CPU sometime next year or in early 2011.