Nokia Booklet 3G. Solidtastic
In these heady days where technology news moves at the speed of the internet (just below the speed of light because, like most internet users, the internet is fond of the odd doughnut or ten), we constantly find ourselves feeling about as speedy as a second class snail mail letter in these strike-ridden days.
However, today we bring you something almost tantamount to breaking news. Not quite, of course, we’re not that good. But we’re betting a hell of a whole lot of you haven’t heard of the Nokia Booklet 3G. See, told you, you’ve no idea what we’re talking about, have you? Is it a book-shaped phone? A slider with a big QWERTY keyboard? A… oh, right, yeah, there’s a picture up in the top left. So, there we have it: Nokia have made a laptop.
Excited? Well, you damn well should be. Because if there’s one thing that Nokia have proven over the years, it’s that they make solid, reliable, and downright functional pieces of kit. All that sometimes means that in the superficial world of mobile phones they can be out-shouted by other manufacturers releasing slightly more glitzy/flashy handsets, but we think that in the computing world, reliable and solid is exactly what you want. People are a lot less willing to accept flaws in a £500 laptop than a £200 phone.
So, does the Nokia 3G Booklet live up to our excitement? Yes, hell yes, and then yes some more. It ticks so many boxes it’s untrue, in fact. Design: stunning. Basic features: all as good as the current crop of netbooks. Extras that make it special: 3G, A-GPS, WiFi sound good to you?
Check out this Nokia Booklet 3G review for a full rundown of what’s great, or just have a look at this boring but useful official page. Then go treat yourself to the video….
Even the limited nature of the blog sometimes challenges us. What’s that Samsung? You’re releasing a new phone that is identical in every way to your previous phone in this line, only there are 0.8 more megapixels on the camera and it also comes in Cobalt Jack Flash Blue Tints? Whoop-de-doooo, let us get straight on and write a blog post about that pronto. Or, what say you over there Mr S Ericsson, you’re releasing a brand new super exclusive new phone that is in just about every single way identical to Samsung’ and Motorola’s and HTC’s and etc. and so on’s brand new super exclusive phone in the same category? Then again, let us wheel out our magic blog dictionary and find some words to jumble together for.
We’ve seen this thing described as a hybrid between the Nokia 5800 and Nokia 5530… however, us being us (i.e. crass, cheap, provocative and just downright rude), we like to think of the 
Rarely has a phone’s title (especially one from the notoriously bland-naming Nokia) done such a good job of summing up a phone that it actually leaves us slightly lost for words. Us! Lost for words! Amazing, isn’t it.
The 
Like gossiping? Then you’re going to love the 
Nokia have always built solid, durable phones with decent battery lives. In fact, we know people who are still using Nokia’s with LCD screens from about seven years ago that are still going strong. Not so with so many other manufacturers of course, especially in these days of new 18-24 month contracts. Because a disturbing trend happened in the days of 12 month contracts in which phones started to get built just for the length of that contract and no more. So that if you waited, say, 14 months, you’d suddenly find that your battery was barely lasting a day, your screen looked like it wanted to go into retirement and the whole casing started to feel just a little bit like it was going to fall apart in your hands. And don’t get us started on how mayfly-like iPods are…
It’s not often that we’ll direct your attention straight to a video on this blog. In fact, if we’re honest, the video is normally a bit of a filler, something we’ve spent all of 2 minutes trying to find and pasting in in some vain attempt to make it appear as if we’re all technical and savvy with the ways of blogging. Today, however, thank to the 