A head of taking a nearer glance at the Booklet 3G, its best we speak to its rather un-netbook price tag of £649. Pop into a local PC store and that sort of money will buy you a extremely superb, and fully-fledged Core 2 Duo laptop.

Along with the mobile phones, Nokia is also assuming that the citizens will be capable to buy this netbook at a subsidized cost through the likes of O2, Orange, T-Mobile also including the Vodafone. But, as so far not one of these mobile operators has signed up to Nokia's vision of what a netbook ought to be. So if you need a Booklet 3G your only choice at this time is to find it SIM-free, which also means splashing a huge amount of cash.

The device is being enclosed within a 10.1-inch screen is being fixed to the bottom by using a couple of rock-solid hinges along with features a comparatively maximum resolution of 1280 x 720. Colors as well as screening angles are superb, but the display isn't the sharpest we've noticed; look closely and a somewhat blurry appearance is noticeable.

And the device is also being outfitted by range of ports, which consist of HDMI output along with three USB sockets. The SIM card slot is inserted smartly away behind a small flap on the right; an SD card reader is also set up here. And it does not include Ethernet port, which will cause troubles if your wireless network is playing up. You do, but, find 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth and, obviously, 3G mobile broadband.

And if you want to us the 3G module (this supports HSDPA for high-speed connections), you'll have to slot in a SIM card. Once slotted in, the 3G connection is available using Windows 7's networking tool. The speeds you experience will rely on a number of factors, along with network congestion as well as the strength of the signal; in our tests, we managed a quite reliable 1.5Mbps by a Vodafone SIM. It's worth bearing in mind that this connection can only be used for data, and you are not are capable to call someone.

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One more feature included as many recent cellular phones, like Nokia has also built-in GPS module. As well as A-GPS is also companionable, which means the Booklet 3G will be capable to work out your rough location by making use of the nearby mobile phone masts in its place of satellites.

And it is being advanced by most highly developed Atom Z530 CPU with 1GB of RAM to play with. As it doesn't run quite as easily as the XP-based netbooks we've seen and the Windows 7 Starter Edition operating system rarely feels slow. It's not desperately slow, but there were obvious delays when undertaking certain easy tasks for example opening Control Panel or else firing up Word. Meanwhile, Intel's GMA 500 chipset is influential enough to control the demands of Windows, but don't expect to play whichever 3D games.

And it contains a 3,840mAh battery as usual. Better still, not like further netbooks with huge batteries, this 16-cell component doesn't jut out from the back of the chassis. Nokia also state it work for continuously for almost 12 hours.

And the most remarkable thing about this device is that it is not enclosed by any fan within the chassis, meaning the only sound you will hear is the hard drive quietly clicking away. At 120GB we've no issues with the size of this storage drive, but the fact it's a 4,200rpm model means performance takes a bit of a strike; most netbooks feature almost 5,400rpm drives.

And it has big keyboard as well as well-spaced keys so that you can type very freely on it. Our only slight objection is that our thumbs which frequently strikes the raised edge which lay just at the base of the row of keys.