http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/ Engadget Comments for Nokia following Booklet 3G with ARM-based smartbook in mid-2010? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/
wtf, nokia. wtf.]]>Aug 26th 2009 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Obviously someone missed the post about the pricing...]]>Aug 26th 2009 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Eldar from Mobile Review (a very reliable, *named* source) says the Booklet 3G will cost 399€.

I believe him over Engadget's unnamed source. Engadget are just spreading FUD about Nokia again.]]>Aug 26th 2009 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/That's probably with a contract. The 800 without is far more believable. I mean the iPhone is like 650 without and 190 with, and similar with phones from Nokia like the N97.]]>Aug 26th 2009 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/
99% of Nokia products can be bought contract free so Nokia gives prices without contract.]]>Aug 26th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 1:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Nokia already helped out with porting Ubuntu to ARM.
An ARM processor would mean week-long battery life.]]>Aug 26th 2009 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/
Basically, a smartphone with big screen and expandability, with a lightweight linux OS or reworked smartphone OS.]]>Aug 26th 2009 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/
It's just a different processor architecture, no big problem. Aside from the big commercial apps mentioned (which most people don't use anyway), all classes of app will be available. By the time 'smartbooks' are available and achieve a certain level of popularity, I don't think there'll be any significant difference for most users between Ubuntu on ARM and Ubuntu on Intel Atom. Certainly pretty much every major program I ever use at home - and no I don't currently run Linux - should run on Arm/Ubuntu by then except, um... Lightroom... and... yeah, that's it.

Of course the difference between Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions) and *Windows* will remain, so I'm not saying there isn't a problem in terms of potential users. These things will probably mainly be sold with cut-down operating systems that only run specific applications or something, like the 'quick start' stuff that's already available; ChromeOS etc. In Nokia's case, I guess it'd be running Maemo.]]>Aug 26th 2009 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nokia-following-booklet-3g-with-arm-based-smartbook-in-mid-2010/Aug 26th 2009 4:07PM