Nokia Booklet 3G, The Final Verdict

Bill gates once said, If You can’t make it good then at least make it look good. And Nokia’s booklet 3G is the perfect fit for this quote. Nokia has tried utterly hard to make this look one of a kind, sleek, light yet not stylish enough but we’ll take it. But we won’t take it if it’s not worth the price tag. With a 500$ price tag booklet 3G is not a smart decision to buy. I mean what’s good a net book if it can’t provide you with what it meant to. Indeed a netbook is suppose to be slower for applications but its main purpose is to provide you with mobility and portability and 24/7 connectivity.

After filling the 120 GB with some of the stuff and 60 GB left to spare, the performance was like if you’re compressing a 4 GB DVD in the background all the time. May be it was the windows 7 starter that came with it. I mean come on, at one place you’re recommending minimum 2GB RAM for windows 7 and you think that 1GB ram with atom processor and windows 7 starter can be a selling point? NO FREAKIN WAY! The performance disappointed me to a great extent. Internet explorer was never faster than they’ve promised it to be. Google chrome worked fine. Performance on the internet was disappointing as hell. I mean can you imagine that it crashed 3-5 times while I was browsing on the internet explorer. I think atom is not that weak after all that it cannot support internet explorer 8.

The Bad side:

1.       No Lan Slot. What if 3G service is too expensive for someone? Or not available? And it is not necessary that one should always have a wifi everywhere.

2.       Average Performance, Windows starter should be removed or replaced with XP or Linux. Acer is pretty good; they have their Linux based net book’s separated from those of windows.

3.       Would not be great hit in countries where 3G service is yet to available, which make its target market limited to only those countries which has 3G connectivity.

The Good side:

Very Comfortable keyboard, with capacious keys and a very good track pad, and no displace of track keys unlike other netbooks.

2.   Superb battery life. This is one thing worth praising about booklet 3G. It actually last for 8 – 10 hours, so there’s nothing long in writing 12 hours battery life. A little Exaggeration can be tolerated.

3.   The slim design and light weight makes it very pleasurable to carry.

I have a few Recommendations for all the people out there who are about to buy net book:

·         Don’t get excited by windows 7 starter, you’ll regret it later. Go for Either XP or Linux.

·         Not 1 but 2GB of ram is mandatory.

·         Don’t ever use internet explorer 8 on a netbook, use either chrome or Mozilla. I’ll recommend chrome.

·         There are better options than Nokia when considering buying a net book. Either HP or Acer. I mean think as if you’re buying a cell phone, would you consider any other company apart from NOKIA or Motorola? Or the ones who make cell phones.

Nokia is a Master of cell phone technology. By introducing a netbook and coming into the computer industry, it has taken a big risk. What was Nokia thinking? That it’ll go against HP, Acer, and dell?? They already are established computer giants. Booklet 3G might not be a successful hit. Well not according to me and there might be people who must be contradicting with me. The initial sales that Nokia might have received would only probably because it was something new by Nokia. Soon Nokia will face a downward pattern in the sales of the booklet 3G. And if Nokia was thinking to diversify, then I guess it had made it a Jack of all and master of none. If it really wants to diversify, then it should bring versatility to their cell phones, Like N900 or the upcoming N8 (brilliant concept of USB on the go). Concept that will take Nokia’s cell phones to the next level. It’s not bad to realize an idea but it is wiser to think before you leap.  May be Nokia was aiming to a specific target market but then again, QWERTY keypad is in Samsung mobile and as well as in blackberry. What makes Nokia any different or better from others is the big question with this Booklet 3G.