A German tech blog came across the price of the Nokia Booklet 3G and it is a prohibitive $799, especially with an Atom processor, and no word of Nvidia Ion. My German’s not good and the robot translator not much better, but there seems to be little assurance Nokia knows what it’s getting into a hundred per cent. And what it will do with the Ovi integration, we don’t know yet, but we do hope it will up the ante in the computing mobility sector, with, hopefully, a push towards cloud. In the end, if they can sell this to wireless carriers to get their all-important subsidy, it may open not one but at least two major revenue sources for Nokia–one in this lovely new computing hardware and the other one being Ovi.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 am
[...] than other netbooks with similar specs, but we at PMP Today think it’s much better than $799, cloudbook or [...]
October 7th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
[...] a total of €489 ($1061) for the Nokia Booklet 3G. That’s way more expensive than the rumored $799 selling price and nearly doubles what’s been spotted over at Best Buy. Nonetheless, if you’re [...]
October 13th, 2009 at 7:36 am
[...] can thank AT&T. The U.S. wireless company will pick up about half the tab and sell the “cloudbook” for $299 with a two-year contract for the $60/ month plan. Microsoft will release Windows 7 [...]