Is Nokias App-Enabled Booklet Netbook Trying to Beat Apples Tablet?
This is hot news on the InterWebs this morning–Nokia’s apparently going to move into a totally new market: It’s making a PC, a netbook number that’s also integrated with the Ovi App Store. Is Nokia taking on Apple’s iTablet? Nokia is, of course, the global king of the cell-phone game, making and selling more than any one else on the planet. Except in recent financial quarters when its profits have taken a tumble, partly thanks to the economy and partly due to a lack of innovation–Nokia was incredibly slow to take on the touchscreen smartphone revolution. Which makes its choice to diversify into PC sales very interesting. The specs of it’s Booklet machine aren’t particularly unexpected: Windows and Atom-powered, 3G broadband integrated, Wifi b/g/n, Bluetooth and a 10.1-inch LCD, all in a relatively small but bland-looking 1.25-kilo, 20mm-deep package. The claimed 12-hour battery life is interesting, as that would put the Booklet among the top end of the netbook battery life range. But
