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.

A computer in your pocket… A PC in the palm of your hand… A desktop on the go…

You’ve heard them all in relation to mobile phones before and you’ve become weary. So weary you can barely even get up these days, in fact. So tired with the lies and the self-aggrandising and posturing of all these mobile phone manufacturers, in fact, that you’re not even sure how you can carry on any more.

Well, our despondent friend, the answer is: you should carry merrily on along life’s highway with one of these in your pocket, because the N900 is just what all these other chumps have been promising and failing to deliver all along. Okay, so it’s not actually a PC, not really as powerful as a desktop, not in essence a computer. But, in terms of mobile phone computing, there is simply nothing that even comes close. Linux-powered, 1GB of processing RAM, a hefty graphics card, high speed internet access, up to 48GB storage… we’ve four laptops sat around here from only a couple of years ago that are cowering behind filing cabinets in fear of this thing.

But the best thing about all of the above is that you can happily ignore it. Because another thing manufacturers will do is stick lots of impressive stats in your face, shout and scream about this and that, but when it comes down to it, the thing doesn’t actually work very well. Worried about that with the Nokia N900? Then just have a look at the video below.

Nuff said, right?

Well, after this Nokia N900 review, and then after this official stats page. Then that is mos’ def’ nuff said. A’ight?

Cheap, trashy, easy to strip and responsive to touch is just how we like our… wait for it… wait some more… phones! Boom! Had you there! You thought we were going to say hookers. But we didn’t. We could of, but we didn’t. Cos we are proper class here, innit.

Anyway, moving swiftly away from that legally dubious territory, the Nokia 5230 is actually all of those things, but we don’t mean any of it in a bad way. It really is a cracker of a touchscreen, with tactile feedback and so on. It comes in a selection of base colours and you can also replace the battery covers for even more choice / gaudiness. And, best of all, it’s at the low-end of the touchscreen price range.

Why’s it able to be there? Well, this Nokia 5230 review will explain it better than we can be bothered to (as too does the official page, in fact), but basically this phone is the 5800 minus a bunch of stuff. Just as the 5530 was the 5800 minus some stuff. So, the Nokia 5230 is the 5800 and the 5530 kind of trashy little sister. Which is fine by us. If you see what we mean…

Great music playing (with up to 33 hours playback – a bonus of the stripped down features not being big power drainers), decent internet accessibility, cool Ovi Mapping with the on-board GPS… there’s not much, in fact, that’s missing from this thing that you’re really going to be all that concerned about.

If you’re a flashy type you might want the very latest, the all-singing/-dancing phone, but if you’re happy with not-quite-the-best-but-still-good, then the 5230 might be right up your street.

The Nokia 6700, almost – but not quite – annoyingly so, is one of those kind of people you go to a party with. This person’s been everywhere and done everything. Every interesting country visited. Cool celebrities met. Knows about wine as well as beer. Dresses snappily but not ostentatiously. One of those kinds, you know. Everyone comes over slowly, slyly, almost shamelessly, and introduces themselves. The 6700 is giving little away, talking coyly, almost – but not quite – affectedly about their achievements and experiences. So you can’t help yourself. You chip in, explaining how, amongst other things, the Nokia 6700 classic has on it the first ever instance of Nokia’s UNC. Oh, sorry, you say, than explain by that that you mean Uplink Noise Cancellation. That’s right, Uplink Noise cancellation, something that improves call quality by monitoring not one but two microphones, the first for the voice, the second for any surrounding environmental sound, then balancing the two to create the clearest possible call.

At that point the 6700 looks at you, a little embarassed, even though you know they’re proud of their UNC, and you feel a little ashamed, a little too eager. So you skulk away to the drinks table, muttering to yourself, finishing off that last bottle of gin until, maybe an hour later, maybe a little longer, you realise the 6700 has left with the very person you were telling about the Uplink Noice Cancellation.

The 6700 is that kind of phone, if you see what we mean. You don’t? Oh. Sorry. Then read this Nokia 6700 review. Or have a look at Nokia’s official page. Or scope out these Nokia 6700 deals. That might be a little clearer. Now where did we put that gin…

It’s a little tricky to place the Nokia E52 in our opinion. Not quite a fully fledged business phone (seeing as how it doesn’t have a QWERTY-keyboard) but definitely more than just a media-friendly smartphone. Hmm. It’s not to say a few people aren’t going to find a lot of use for this thing, but we’re not sure if there’s a particularly big market for it. We’re not even sure if they’ll be a medium-sized one.

Well, what are the benefits? There’s Mobile VPN (mobile virtual private network) that allows you access to network resources and information available on company intranets. Call Connect support to hook up your E52 to your phone system, allowing you to be contactable through a single number, wherever you are. And you can access Ovi files, the remote, Gdrive-like system that makes all the documents, photos and other files stored on your main computer accessible through your handset (very nifty). And with an absolutely huge battery life – 25 days standby, incredibly enough – this not a bad package at all. But, all of this without the QWERTY? We know lots of people want the slim, pocket-sized thing you get with candybar phones, but is that true of people who also want to take advantage of all this business-oriented features? We’re not so sure about that. It seems to us the Nokia E52 doesn’t quite know what it wants to be.

Maybe we’ll be proven wrong, but we doubt it. Check out the full list of all the specs, features and gadgets onboard this remarkably little thing in this Nokia E52 review, or have a look at this slightly shoddy video instead:

Aside from drug dealers (yes, yes, we’ve been watching too much of The Wire too, just like everyone else), we think there’s going to be a broader market for the shockingly cheap (55 Euros before subsidies) Nokia 2720 Fold than even Nokia might imagine. As with the 2730 Classic, Nokia have been talking this clamshell handset up in terms of what it’s going to offer to emerging markets that might not have easy access to the internet or email capabilities. This is why they’re pushing the fact that you can set-up one of their Ovi email accounts in 3 easy steps without even going near a desktop computer or laptop, for example.

We think though that the 2720 Fold could also find a niche (or even bigger than niche) market in the supposedly more fashion-conscious hotspots of Western Europe. With its minimal, almost retro style and complete lack of any pretension, we think the fold might well get snapped up by, well, pretentious fashionistas who are digging retro stylings.

Then again, it might not. But we can’t help but think there’s something cool about owning a phone that, instead of pretending to be the absolute very best there has ever been, is happy to be just what it is: cheap, simple, and, well, nothing else. Just cheap and simple is fine by us. Check out a fuller Nokia 2720 fold review here, and waste 20 seconds of your life on the very cheap and painfully simple video of the Nokia 2720 Fold below.

Those of you who’ve become hooked on the show Mad Men recently will know that, in the worlds of advertising and marketing, certain words can gain and lose power and import over time, and we think it’s no coincidence that the Mad Men episode featuring the word ‘carousel’ (we won’t spoil the show for anyone by saying any more) probably aired around the time Nokia were finalising details of the new Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, the updated version of the fantastically successful 5800. In the case of the 5530 XpressMusic, the Carousel is the new Contact Bar that lets you store up to 20 contacts on your home screen in a pretty cool looking drag-and-spin wheel format. This should mean that to call or send a message, review conversation history, or follow the contact’s feed is now easier than ever for even more contacts.

Other homescreen additions include the ability to define 4 short cuts (e.g. for Facebook or MySpace or other websites). But aside from this, the 5530 XpressMusic is more about what they’ve removed. Most notably, some bulk, with Nokia obviously agreeing with many others about the 5800 being a little too chunky. Check out one of Nokia’s famously terrible videos below for a direct size comparison. Along the way, they’ve also trimmed a few features and some of the screen size, but we don’t think there’s been any real loss to this phone. Check out a review here for a full rundown of what’s there and what’s been chopped. And let’s see if the Nokia design team have nicked anything else from primetime TV in the coming months! There’s a full Nokia 5530 review here, and a daft video below for those with more time on their hands

Take a little look at this video for the soon-to-be-released Nokia E72:

And tell us that didn’t just get you salivating just a little bit. Even if you’re not in the market for a top of the range business phone (and we’re willing to suggest there’s going to be no better business phone out there come this things launch later this year) you have to admit that this is one slick little number. Slimmer and smaller than most Blackberries, the Nokia E72 is still seems really, with a metallic feel and stunning curves, yet all weighing in at just 128 grams.

But aside from being eye candy, the Nokia E72 has more ooopmh inside it to satisfy even the most power hungry of business users. With a new optical navigation key, faster performance and internet speeds thanks to processor upgrades, GPS and compass as standard, Active noise cancellation, new version of Quickoffice, camera upgrade to 5 megapixels and a top-loading 3.5 mm audio jack added, we don’t think you’ll be able to do much better for your money. Oh, and it has a tasty 480 standby hours; 12 hrs 2G talk time, 6hrs for 3G. What more can we say? Read a Nokia E72 review here if you need more convincing.

The Nokia E75 is a phone that belongs to the Nokia family. This phone is designed with the appearance of a side slider with a complete QWERTY keyboard. The Nokia E75 has a number of specifications that are built into this phone. Some of the features that can be found in this phone are listed below.

- High quality QVGA display
- Full complete QWERTY keyboard
- Internal dynamic memory of 50MB
- 2.4 inch TFT display with 320 x 240 pixels of resolution
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Nokia Mobile Search
- Nokia maps

Apart from these above mentioned features the E75 possesses a number of other specifications that make this phone a front runner in the mobile phone industry. The Nokia E75 weighs a mere 139g and its dimensions are 111.8mm x 50/80mm x 14.4mm.

The phone has Wifi capabilities and therefore this phone can also serve as a valuable business tool. You can now stay connected to your loved ones and your business colleagues regardless of your location. The user can send and receive e-mails and even browse the web for information, however this feature in the E75 is subject to change when considering your network and phone usage.

Once you See more info here regarding the camera you will be sure to fall in love with the Nokia E75 phone. The Nokia E75 has a 3.2 megapixel camera that almost everyone looking to invest in a phone finds to be one of the most important features in a phone. Additional characteristics in this camera includes a 8x digital zoom, CMOS sensor, 10cm to infinity focus range, 3.7mm focal length, LED flash and autofocus.

According to Nokia, the Nokia E75 phone is a piece of modern technology that is ideal for anyone from any walk of life. Whether you are someone who is looking to purchase a phone to make their everyday life easier or someone purchasing a phone for business purposes, this phone is sure to be a wise investment.

If you are looking for network specific deals, follow the links below:

Nokia E75 on Orange
Nokia E75 on O2
Nokia E75 on T-Mobile
Nokia E75 on Vodafone
Nokia E75 on 3 Mobile
Nokia E75 on Virgin

The Nokia E55 is yet another phone designed by Nokia that is guaranteed to keep you interested every time you see it. This phone is one that is immensely attractive and it also has a number of features that make the Nokia E55 a phone of the future. The Nokia E55 is a phone that offers a great number of features that are bound to make an improvement in your personal and business life. Some of the features that are integrated into this phone are:

- 2.4 inch display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels
- Compact QWERTY keyboard
- Bluetooth connectivity
- GPS system
- 100MB internal memory
- GPRS system
- Symbian Operating System
- Nokia mini map browser

The Nokia E55 has a variety of alternative physical features as well. The phone weighs in at 95g and is a very light phone. The dimensions of the phone are 116.5mm x 49mm x 9.9mm.

The phone has a music player that has 18 hours of playback time therefore the user can entertain themselves for hours on end. Other than the features mentioned, according to the Nokia official product page also states that the FM radio in the phone has a playback time of 30 hours. With this feature you are sure to be entertained every time.

The Wifi capability in the phone will give you the added advantage of being connected with anyone and everyone at any given time from anywhere, however as mentioned this feature in the Nokia E55 is subject to change as a result of the network and phone usage.

The Nokia E55 phone can also be quite fun as the phone has instant messaging capabilities. The consumer will also be glad to hear about the pay as you go plan. You can now purchase the phone by paying in installments. You will be able to experience the amazing features of this phone without paying a wad of money at one go.

You can now be connected to your friends and family with applications such as Windows Live as well as Yahoo! IM. Send fun and colorful instant messages to you loved ones from anywhere.

The Nokia E55 phone is one that will leave you yearning for more. The phone is ideal for anyone from any walk of life as it is sure to change your life in a more positive way.

Nokia E55 on Orange
Nokia E55 on O2
Nokia E55 on T-Mobile
Nokia E55 on Vodafone
Nokia E55 on 3 Mobile
Nokia E55 on Virgin