Nokia Booklet 3G. Give up the day job

Actors should never, ever try and start a singing career.

Singers should never, ever try and start an acting career.

IT workers should never attempt to become escorts.

Footballers should never do… well, anything at all in public ever.

The list of inadvisable career changes out there is endless. So when we heard that a mobile phone manufacturer was going to be releasing a laptop, we scoffed heartily.

However, once we’d wiped the mushed up cereal and milk goo from our screens (warning: never scoff too hard when eating breakfast) we read further and found that the manufacturer in question was Nokia and that their choice of thing-to-make was a netbook. Hmmm, we then said, once we’d swallowed. Hmmm indeed.

And ever since that day we’ve been shifting nervously in our dried cereal covered seats waiting for the day when more details about this fabled netbook arrived, and hark, that day is here, because now the Nokia Booklet 3G is all, like, official and spec’ed up. Have a look at the official page, or at this Nokia Booklet 3G review, if you don’t believe us.

So what of these details, what can we read into the specs? Well, lots. Mostly good, once not so good. All the good bits you’ll find in the reviewy type links above, but these all become exceptionally impressive when you add them to just how darn good this thing looks. It looks like a high class laptop, while most netbooks look like cheap platicky things at best, poor kid’s toys at worst. Then there’s the Nokia 3G Booklet’s battery. Or it’s BATTERY, we should say. 12 hours of use from a single charge? Yes please, sailor, yes please indeed.

As always in this life of ours, there is one gripe: that of price. There’s nothing official out there just as yet, but our keen blogging ears are picking up something along the lines of £500. Which, when you can pick up the likes of the NC10 for half that, might be a sticking point. Speaking of sticking points… we fancy some cereal. So, off to the video below for you lot.