The legendary mobile phone maker, Nokia recently released a 3G Netbook, entering into netbook territory known as Booklet 3G Laptop. Booklet 3G is easily one of the most smart-looking Netbooks I’ve seen. It feels firm and well-built in ones hands, without being too bulky and the cover of the lid is customizable. From blue black and white I found Black more elegant.

Nokia Booklet 3G is smaller and lighter and measures only 10.4 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches and weighs 2.8 pounds. It has a keyboard of 78 keys, and even though the keys seem to be too small to type, I quickly got used to it but unfortunately, the fact is keyboard’s tiny keys are hard to hit accurately. The touchpad is exact and simple to use, supporting multi-touch for zooming in and zooming out.

The sound I found isn’t that great, as I experimented some sound deformation even though I didn't adjust the volume to the maximum. And when I tried the volume to be adjusted to the maximum i observed that it isn't so loud. Unlike the smoothly narrowed sides of many other Netbooks, which is indeed designed to create the false impression of slimness, the Booklet has prickly, angled edges. Going by its name off course, there is a book-like squareness to it.

While even when the designed looks, battery life, and user experience, is obviously not in recognition to the first-time netbook maker, it has really attained them but it has some missteps taken also. Cost factor is the first. The second is the blending of the slow hard drive (4,200rpm), 1GB of memory, and the Windows 7 Home Premium, which basically crippled the performance.

The Nokia Booklet 3G is graceful, sophisticated and would look good on the desk of any professional worker. But that's exactly where the enjoyment stops. The benefits, features and value for money of the Nokia Booklet 3G are difficult to talk about as they are almost absent today.