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Another netbook from the nobility of mobility:

To enhance mobility, the device offers up to 12 hours of use on a single battery charge with Wi-Fi on, compared with most netbooks’ low- to mid-single-digit battery lives, said John Hwang, who headed up the Booklet’s design and development team. Nokia also pointed to the netbook’s silent-running fan-less operation, combined headphone/microphone jack, embedded 7.2Mbps high speed packet access (HSPA) cellular modem, seamless hand-off from Wi-Fi to 3G, aluminum chassis, light weight of 2.76 pounds and 0.78-inch thickness when closed. - from TWICE

It will be available exclusively at Best Buy (initially) and the $299 price is tied to an AT&T contract. It will come loaded with Windows 7.

Speaking of 7, I’m going to have to decide whether to upgrade from XP or not. This decidedly geeky, multi-page article suggests that 7 may not be a good idea for early netbooks and that 7 consumes battery life more voraciously than the venerable XP.