In what can surely be called a surprise move, Nokia has announced that it will enter the netbook market with an Atom-based netbook which will ship with Windows 7. While many of the components appear relatively normal compared to other netbooks, it does come with a few features that will set the device apart from the rest. Instant update: Ars believes this is the first Intel Pine Trail netbook.
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I think only way they different from rest of netbook markers is OVI service. So far I haven't seen single Nokia app ported to Linux or any other OS than Windows. It will support syncing with Nokia phones which means using PC suite that hasn't been ported. After seen how buggy most of Nokia software has been in history and how bad OVI store and other service are I'm not very impressed on this. If price is right it might be pretty good but if they charge too much for pre-installed OVI services I see no reason to buy it.
On side note I think this just proofs how badly Nokia is managed nowdays. Whole service strategy has been pure failure starting from N-gage and ending in OVI.
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The N95 phone was much thicker than I expected when I finally took the time to look at it but the tablets are fantastic. The N800 was great once I picked up a BT keyboard and the N810 has been even better; both being the first devices I could call an upgrade from the Palm T5 based on provided hardware functions and design. They also did the software right though. They took a Debian fork and opened it up to third party developers. The next release of Maemo is supposed to open up the last closed bits including the NIC kernel module. The N95 was a chunky bit of hardware though. I was surprised by it's width when I looked at it finally. My two Nokia phones have also been fantastic but phones is there big business.
I'm not familiar with there other hardware so I can't comment there. This notebook does look nice in the commercial but it's closer to low end sub-notebook pricing.
What I'm laughing about the last few days is the N900. The first time I booted my N800, my thought was that if they added a cell radio it would eat the mobile phone market alive. My reasoning was that they wouldn't do this because it would also eat there other mobile phone model sales in the process. Now the N900 has it early rumour release stage and it's clearly an update of the N810 with a cell radio added. The down side; it's due for release only in the US and with a single carrier so I'm really hoping it does go the same way as the N810 Wimax edition. I can't wait to see what the Maemo community does with it though.
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Nokia is actually in the process of porting the Ovi suite to the Mac. No word on when it'll be done, though.
In the meantime, they've already released a Mac client for Ovi Files.
http://blog.ovi.com/2009/08/04/i-love-my-mac-and-so-does-ovi-files/
Edited 2009-08-25 22:00 UTC
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Looks really promising.
I only have two requests:
1) Make it affordable. If it´s more than $500, it´s out of the question.
2) Provide choice in the OS: provide a model with identical specs but loaded with a good linux distro.
Nokia is doing some pretty interesting things: they bought Trolltech and released Qt under the LPGL, they are pretty active in the mobile os department with linux and now this netbook.
Can´t wait to get my hands on one of these babies. Here´s to hoping that the next generation of netbooks have all the features of the Nokia one built-in.