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Brief: Nokia Booklet 3G to come out in early 2010, ARM based version a bit later?

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By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 1:59 AM

Digitimes, the site that either gets things remarkably right, or totally wrong, has a rumor from a couple of Taiwanese handset makers that the Finnish company is planning on making a smartbook (defined as a netbook, but with an ARM processor) and will release it in 2010. They also claim that the Booklet 3G will come out in early 2010, meaning Nokia is going to miss the holiday season. Strange, how long does it take to put a few pieces of plastic together, slap Windows 7 on it, and install Ovi Suite?

What OS is going to power said smartbook, is it going to be Symbian, or Maemo?

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • bazza

    Plastic? I thought it was a unibody aluminium shell with a 10 inch glass screen.

    Maybe they are still making deals with networks so they have solid tariffs at launch.

    We’ll see.