Nokbook arrives

My friends over in Finland have been working hard at implementing the suggestions from this blog it seems.

Back in June I predicted a Nokbook - well they have announced it - the Nokia Booklet

I await the pricing eagerly - if Nokia can leverage their relationships with both Intel, and more recently Microsoft to obtain a competitive advantage here then this could be a significant opportunity - particularly if they market it at the education market where Apple have historically been strong, but are suffering with price competition from the netbook market.

I look forward to Nokia releasing the products I proposed in this blog posting

Comments

[Ann]

Isn't this just another laptop? What is new/different, except it is from Nokia and not from one of the existing manufactures?

How does it fit with Nokia's stated strategy to focus on selling services rather than only handsets?

[Matt]

It does appear to be "just another windows laptop" - while I'm sure it will have Ovi services pre-integrated I'm not clear what the added value in the competitive market place for laptop devices is.

Unless - it's cheaper & higher quality than it's competitors. Which with Nokia's leverage over the major component suppliers (including Intel and Microsoft) it could be.

[Jon Wallace]

hmmm... its windows and not mac though.... :[