I've been experimenting with various technical tools, hardware and software, for a long time in order to increase my productivity increase. As a freelancer, I am of course interested in the ever-improving opportunities to work while on the go.

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Why product tests in a career blog?

It was therefore a good idea to write about it in a career blog. The first thing I do now is the Nokia Booklet 3G, the first netbook of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer, which is provided by o2.

In contrast to previous tests, which mainly assess the technical performance of the netbook, I am concerned about checking the netbook for its practicality in my workplace. And in a long-term test for over three months as a loose article series (overview as always under the post office). I can keep the device at the end of the test period.

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Of course I will also discuss the technical aspects, the performance and the user friendliness of the netbook. But above all, I will investigate whether the netbook enriches my work as a journalist and thus brings the hoped-for increase in productivity.

I will write about what work I can do on the go with the device, which software I use - and what technical restrictions I have to accept. Of course, I'm particularly interested in the battery life, from Nokia with an incredible 12! Hours is specified - would be too nice ...

Forward to more productivity

Because unfortunately the battery is in my opinion the sticking point in all mobile Technology: Because what use is the greatest hardware and software if the device doesn't even last a day? Unfortunately, sockets are on the way clear less common than one would think.

From this point of view, I'm so excited about the device. All in all an exciting test series that will tell you a lot about productivity.

Nokia has released its debut netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G - and I'm allowed to test it for three months extensively and blog here regularly, rejoice! So I'm curious if the device makes my life easier and what advantages and disadvantages I can make on the device.

Unpacking and happy

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It arrived at the end of last week - and I have to say: the very first impression was "wow, what a nice piece." Even the packaging is extremely high-quality, blue cardboard. The design of the device is also elegant and reminiscent of Mac books. That made Lust for more.

But it also makes you suspicious: I hope that, in contrast to other devices, the price is significantly higher - it currently costs 609,99 euros with O2 including data contract, 679 with Amcom, but apparently not available 737 euros on Amazon, while you can get netbooks from other companies for 300 - not only reflected in the design!

Lean accessories

And indeed: The accessories equipment seems a bit meager: In addition to the booklet you get a charger, a starter guide in two languages, a headset and a wipe for the display. That's it. A real manual, a recovery DVD for reinstalling Windows or even a protective bag one searches in vain.

After all, the power supply is perfectly adapted to mobile needs: The oval shape with rounded corners is not only chic, but also helps practical: It has a track and holder to roll up and attach the cable. It's also easy.

So no cable salad in the bag - and also a significantly reduced risk of cable breaks. Because nothing is more ethereal, than to get expensive because of a new power supply, as I know from experience.

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Top design with slight flaws

One thing has to be left to the Nokia Booklet 3G: It looks great - and not only that: The design is well thought out and also offers practicality some advantages - but also a few shortcomings.

The housing is made of aircraft aluminum, practically made of one piece and looks very stable. This is a great advantage for mobile transport - especially for someone like me, the last two Note: books broke each other on the hinge :-) !!

In this respect, the case could be a real plus of the Finnish netbook in the long term. Another: there is no fan and the device runs practically hardly hot. As a result, no dirt or dust can penetrate into the housing. Also the flap, which closes the slots for SD-Card and Sim-Card, prevents the penetration of dust and dirt.

The display might be larger

The black plastic disc on the display lid is very stylish, at least too stylish to stick an individual protective film over it ... -) but of course you can also see every fingerprint on it. And: The display (resolution 1.280 x 720 pixels) does not completely fill the display lid, there is a 1,5-2 cm wide border around it.

It may be that Nokia has chosen an 10,1 inch display to reduce energy consumption: under ergonomic history, this is rather a disadvantage!

Too big and too heavy for the handbag

The way food is spiegelnd glass pane behind which the display sits: looks nice, but was that really necessary? With its dimensions of 264 x 185 or with a hinge x 19,9 mm, the device is ideal for carrying around in a slightly larger handbag. After all, designer laptops should also be targeted as stylish accessories Women speak to.

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But since we all hang our handbags over our shoulders, I naturally wish my netbook to be like this light as possible - and every unnecessary one of the total of 1250 grams bothers me. It would be without a glass pane for sure a few grams less. And the glass pane has another disadvantage: you spiegelt quite uncommon. You can forget about working outside or even in the sun.

Optimized for mobile work

Practically after all, that the booklet has an integrated sim card slot, so you do not need a mobile surf stick. And practically, that this slot next to the SD card reader on the right side and not, for example, under the battery, which otherwise would have to take out every time. This allows the quick change of Simcards even when the device is switched on - eg abroad ,

However, the WLAN and UMTS function (the latter recognize also HSDPA) also have some restrictions. A network connection is not, however, the adapter can be bought separately. For this one finds whole 3 USB connections as well as a Bluetooth adapter. A flat screen TV or an external monitor can also be connected externally.

As for the equipment and the first impression, so a very nice netbook, quite successful. However, the question arises of the price / performance ratio. I am anxious to see what the technical characteristics of the workplace are.

Every netbook is only as good or bad as its operating system. So here is a detailed report on the use of the new operating system from Redmond in the stripped-down starter version. With a unfortunately not too positive conclusion…

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The scope of delivery

Before I report on the use of my Nokia booklet 3G in everyday working life, unfortunately I have to get rid of a few sentences about the operating system - because the greatest netbook is unfortunately only as good as its operating system, which contributes significantly to productivity.

The Nokia Booklet 3G comes with Windows Starter. I have to say: I've been working with Ubuntu-Linux for a good two years. What finally convinced me of Ubuntu, apart from the simple installation (the most necessary programs are already there!), was the very simple structure: Ubuntu simply limits itself to the most necessary and stores its files in a logically understandable way. What you need, you can fast reinstall and have the free one selection. With the basic installation of Windows, on the other hand, I always had the feeling that I was being steered in a certain direction.

The first impression of Windows7 Starter

Now I had heard a lot of good things about Windows7 and was curious if it was as simple as Ubuntu. And at the beginning I was also very excited: It all really looked very easy. That it was only that naked operating system, did not bother me, on the contrary, I was annoyed by the Office trial version, which I immediately uninstalled and replaced by OpenOffice.

Needless to say, I also swear by browsers and eMail on Mozilla. I also replaced the test version of the virus program with another one from which I still had a license key. It's just a shame that I first had to google that it was a 30-day trial version. That would have been a nice surprise! The missing manual just bothers me again. After all, I have now noticed that there are numerous YouTube videos about the Nokia Booklet 3G. Apparently I'm just too old-fashioned.

I found it actually logical that a low-performance netbook comes along with the slimmed-down starter version - how and why was slimmed down, this article shows.

The good impression lasted only briefly

However, this impression only lasted until I happened to read a comparison test on chip.de between Windows7 Starter and Windows7 Home Premium. Accordingly, the slimmed-down version consumes only slightly less memory intensive. Windows7 Starter - so a pure saving factor. And that at the price!

After all, Microsoft has apparently moved away again, only three programs simultaneously to make executable: That would actually be a huge problem, because I already alone the virus program, the browser and the eMailProgram must be open by default to work properly. One can argue about the necessity of all other points.

Restricted Interviewequippment

Much more annoying than the missing media features, I find the lack of camera software to record videos with the webcam supplied - I have to look for something suitable first. Or upload it to YouTube right away? And the fact that the microphone is only available via the headset, but there is no built-in socket for an external microphone, for me undermines the advantage of the camera:

The device is apparently designed for video telephony, but not for professional use as a journalist, for example to record web videos or do interviews. I'll have to take a look at that too, I can hardly believe it: a netbook at this price shouldn't just be a funAudience use, but also be suitable for professional use by journalists and bloggers.

Vulnerability Taskliste

But also in the normal work, the pitfalls of Windows 7. Namely, where Linux is much more user-friendly: At the taskbar. Because with Linux you can create on this virtual workspaces and then switch between them conveniently with a mouse click or keyboard shortcut. At the same time, only the icons of the programs belonging to the currently selected desktop appear on the taskbar. And that's exactly what I'm missing on Windows and I habitually click around pretty desperately on the taskbar. After all: Here it seems to help!

Problem resolution

The resolution was enthusiastically celebrated at 1.280 x 720 pixels. Certainly a nice thing, more clarity. On the one hand. On the other hand, the writing on the 10,1-inch display is too small for me. Then you have to look at the display directly in front of the Eyes hold to be able to read properly. Sure, you can do that too Head stretch out, but then neck dislocations are inevitable. At least if you stay longer Internet surfs or even wants to read a text. Maybe the latter doesn't happen with Nokia's intended target group - but it does in my work.

Or one zooms the individual applications each time bigger - then one clicks however particularly with the Firefox dumb and stupid.

The third Solution: You only set the font (this is possible under Windows7, after all) or the whole resolution larger. That leads to the paradox Problem, that the individual windows are too big for the screen and, surprisingly, cannot be reduced in size - and that the button is then partially off the screen and can only be clicked blindly. You gain some space by showing the taskbar at the bottom only when needed and hiding it otherwise. And there is also a screen magnifier, which you can use to enlarge individual parts of the screen if you wish, but which apparently has to be restarted every time.

Which operating system?

So let's Honestly: This messing about with neck pain can't be the best solution for mobile working, can it? I have the impression that the starter version of Windows7, which was specially developed for sale on netbooks, has been slimmed down in terms of performance in order to be cheaper, but has not been adapted in any way to the small screen - unlike smartphones, for example. How about a real Windows netbook variant? In the meantime, I'm grateful for tips from die-hard netbook and Windows users!!! Perhaps such a netbook is best used while standing at a kind of lectern?

I've already flirted with the netbook version of Ubuntu. Because the should also be optically adapted to netbooks. However, in the near future I simply did not understand how to create the USB stick for installation.

Ubuntu on the Notbook?

Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure whether WLAN and UMTS work properly under Ubuntu (on my current HP-NOTEbook that doesn't work with WLAN ...). And Windows should be preserved for the time being, if that doesn't work, so you can't just format the entire hard drive - after all, there is no DVD with the operating system included for such extra requests!

Of course, the operating system is of course no problem that makes the netbook good or bad. And it's probably not a problem just this netbook. However, it would be nice if manufacturers, who bring out a device for the price, would pay a little more attention to usability.

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As I said yesterday, I use the Nokia booklet 3G on the way to blogging - for example, to write this post. That goes quite well, even if there are some corner points (UMTS connection, image processing). This makes typing fun!

Keyboard - the purest bliss

This is synonymous quite well, for example, the text in an Office program prescribes and then, as soon as one has UMTS function, in WordPress. Only with the formatting, tagging and classifying in categories you have to hurry then a little.

The keyboard is yes on so many netbook the (negative) crack point, since here is gladly saved. Not so with the Nokia booklet: The tapping is the purest bliss: the touch print is good, the fingers find the keys without vertippes and the writing goes as fast as on a normal laptop. No comparison to the thumb-tapping that I fabricate with the screen keyboard of my mobile phone.

Crack point picture material

But unfortunately blogging is not just about text, it's also about footage. And the processing of the same is unfortunately a little more complicated. Recently, WordPress offers rudimentary image editing that allows you to scale and crop images.

But you need Internet - and that is, as yesterday already reported, on the way anything but easy. So what to do? And what to do if you need more sophisticated image editing?

Free graphic software

There is a free, very good graphics software, to which I am now on my main computer under Linux now accustomed; after I initially found them need some getting used to: GIMP. GIMP is also available for Windows. And of course I installed GIMP. But what can I say: GIMP does not want as I want. When I try to open an image with GIMP, the application aborts. On my Linux computer with currently 565 MB RAM works perfectly.

Also a problem that again is the constantly interrupting UMTS connection in the IC is owed: The uploading of the pictures is anything but good. I will probably have to wait until I have arrived at the destination.

Display in spotlight

The chic display also causes problems: apart from its size spiegel the glazing in the train is huge. Because when it's dark outside, you can see the glaring headlights of the train car almost better than the contents of the display.

My fellow traveler opposite has a Dell latitude E4200. The device is virtually a real laptop, only slightly larger than my Nokia Netbook, but equipped with a larger 12 inch display. This can probably work better.

New technology, new ideas

The drawback, however: The Dell laptop costs almost exactly twice as much as the Nokia netbook, making it a real professional device. Nevertheless, if you want to work reasonably, but the question of whether you would prefer to buy such a professional device soon?

New technical possibilities also bring new ones ideas: I was on one last week Recruitingsymposium and took the opportunity to try something that I had heard from many colleagues but had never done myself due to lack of equipment: live blogging.

To the event

For those who are interested in the subject of e-recruiting, but who were unable to attend the event. With discussion of external, of course also via Twitter. As a result, this looked like this. The results and more information can be found here! But how did it work?

One should actually assume that two things are available at such an event: WLAN and - sockets! At first neither was the case.

The battery is running and running and running

The sockets were still delivered. The time until then, about 2 hours, I could with my battery, which was still almost loaded up to 50 per cent, still well bridged. However, you have to say that the display is very imaginative: At 50 percent still 4-5 hours were displayed and even as with 6 percent the warning alert (please recharge!), Should be still juice for 40 minutes on it. Nevertheless, it is recommended to recharge at such a moment.

The rechargeable battery logically varies according to screen brightness and internet usage. Where the WLAN consumes significantly more battery power than UMTS. The promised 12 hours are obviously only at the darkest screen setting and without Internet use to create, But 8-9 hours can work on the part with fully charged battery and without socket already.

In this case the long working battery was really a plus for the device!

UMTS

The WLAN on the other hand did not function, as promised, at all at the event: So first test of the UMTS function.

I have to send ahead: Both Internet connections are set up under Windows7. You just have to press the fn + F10 key, select a connection, enter the Wi-Fi key or UMTS pin - done. With the WLAN, which I tested at home, one must enter later nothing more, however the UMTS connection requires after each restart the PIN input. We recommend a password manager or a good memory :-)

In any case, UMTS works extremely well here in Frankfurt: Almost as fast as WLAN, no disconnections. Not so with my blogger colleague Thorsten, who had connected his netbook to the UMTS network using an iPhone, and which then occasionally switched to T-Online-hotspot-dial-up what the connection of the video-Life-Streams interrupted. In this respect: My first UMTS test: A full one Success.

Live blogging via Twitter

But how does live blogging via Twitter work with the Nokia netbook? The first disappointment: Nokia’s SocialHub, a software that also takes advantage of Facebook, Twitter and SMS should make possible. SMS apparently only works if the SIM card is also activated for telephone operation. How about an SMS service via the data flat rate?

Twitter and Facebook in a window - that would be something. But: Only the live stream is displayed in the Twitter window. No search function or sorting option, for example according to hashtags or specific users. That's stupid to enter into dialogue with other twitterers or to discuss our topic. And completely unsuitable for liv-tweeting, where this has to be done very quickly. The SocialHub is apparently intended for people who just want to take a quick look at what's happening on Twitter and Facebook going off - but by no means for professional use. There are better tools like Hootsuite or Tweetdeck, at least for Twitter.

Conclusion: pretty exhausting

Since live blogging via Twitter is quite exhausting - you have to learn everything and at the same time pack the key messages into as meaningful, only 140-character-long tweets - the stress factor is correspondingly high. Here again the small display and the confusion in the task bar becomes noticeable. However, I find that in principle the experiment Live Blogging with Nokia Booklet 3G and Twitter has succeeded.

A feature that I might still wish: A webcam, which is mounted in the laptop cover on the outside - then you could record Twitter and at the same time a live stream. But probably only journalists need something like that :-)

After Easter was pretty cloudy, I have my Nokia emergency this weekebook grabbed and sat down on the Spree. Because actually I have a lot to write.. But the joy of the beautiful weather outweighed it and so I subjected my netbook to the test: "Working in the open air"! What a positive Surprise!

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That's how flexible work works

Originally mine was Opinions rather bad, especially from the display: too small, glazed, spiegelnd - but what can I say: Sitting on a bench in the sun and typing down a text works despite that spiegelThe displays better than I thought - you can see the text comparatively well. Only correcting this can be tedious because the cursor is difficult to see. However, this is no different with many other devices - a netbook with integrated sunglasses has unfortunately not yet been invented.

secondary use

A little tip on the side: You can probably use the display as make-upspiegel use - that may sound like a stupid joke to men, is for someone who like me the make-upspiegel constantly losing, a real enrichment. And another tip: I was asked about the part right away - apparently the chic design has recognition value and is also suitable as a small Talk.

No cooking netbook

In such situations, the advantage of the design also becomes apparent: With my old netbook, after a short time in the sun, I always have Anxiety around the processor. There is no sign of the device heating up here (okay, it's not midsummer yet). And of course the long battery life makes me very happy with such an hour of work in the park.

multitasking

I had a long time considered whether I really need a netbook. Whether one, for example, short texts does not better on the mobile phone tippt, whether the device really always drags along, whether one can actually work outside. I have to say: On days like today, I am glad that I have the device.

For example, because typing on the Samsung mobile phone is really torture (more on this in a separate, detailed test). Also because I can then continue to jet straight from the Spree, but I don't have to go home quickly to deal with an emergencyebook instead, the device disappears elegantly in my handbag. And also because despite everything I can benefit from the first rays of spring sunshine and at the same time can do my work.

Train with the Nokia Booklet 3G

Traveling by train - that was the main reason I wanted a netbook. Because if you already have a suitcase and handbag with you, you don't mark yourself with an emergencyebookburden bag. In addition, on a crowded train, where you often have to jostle halfway through the train to find a free seat, each piece of luggage is simply too much.

The solution could only be a netbook, which fits in my handbag as well as some other stuff.

When changing quickly turn briefly

The first advantage of the handbag PC even before the start of the journey: Rushed to the station - and the train drove away in front of me. I am sitting there now - 15 minutes is not enough time to do something sensible, but too much to starve holes in the air. So quickly opened the netbook to the first Article typing. I have now been able to use this advantage a few times. Fortunately, the start-up was quick with 2 minutes.

Meanwhile, after installation of the first programs, the device, typically Windows, however, takes longer - good 5 minutes. Perhaps this is also due to the nature of the software. So, to put it briefly between two trains, already too long. For the drive in the regional train just still. However, Windows has a built-in hard disk protection: Say, if the device is moved in switched on, the hard drive is simply locked for security reasons. You can also plug the netbook in the connected state times briefly into the handbag, times briefly Einzug or change and then it again rausholen. Practically!

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Battery as a stroke of luck

In fact, the Nokia netbook for train driving proves to be a stroke of luck. Example my trip to my first TV recording Baden Baden. For reasons of time and because the train is going through I had to take the Eurocity here.

Who from time to time with the Eurocity drives, knows: Swiss weighing, badly heated - and no sockets. Before the sockets for the cleaning equipment, I am strongly warned by the DB staff. But, that's the great luck, even the half-charged battery still carries me over two hours train ride to Baden Baden.

Attention battery life

Note: If you drive from time to time Eurocity should pay attention to a long-lasting battery.

Even Christmas when it was difficult to get a seat, the running battery was a real blessing, because I had not just to a netbooksitzplatz (this time in the IC) had to fight through. You do not have to, as recently experienced with a fellow traveler, other travelers around a free sockets. Working on the train is much more relaxed. It is not to mention the long-drawn-out journeys with regional trains or suburban trains, which can be used more efficiently in this way.

But there are also resourceful fellow travelers who drive by their own admission more often and solve the annoying socket problem with a Mehrfackstecker and an extension cable. However, it is the question of whether you always want to carry something like this :-)

Manko UMTS connection

Now that the battery problem has been solved, nothing could stop professional work on the go ways stand. But unfortunately it does. Although I have a UMTS flat rate from o2 as a test, it sometimes doesn't work. As a rule, UMTs work well if you are in a city, eg in the train station, or if you are traveling around with local transport. Outside the cities, however, UMTS is quite a disaster. What works well is to write a blog post between two stations and then post it. Also his faceebook and Twitter status can be updated quite easily in this way while on the go.

What you can forget, however, are revisions of the website. Apart from the fact that such Frickelarbeiten also with the small display become a problem, one creates it hardly in the UMTS zones, something worth changing in the layout, because the connection always breaks off. I then made it after several times persistent attempts nevertheless, because me the errors on my website on the way suddenly noticed and I can leave something like this hardly for several days left. But: Efffective work is different. Conclusion: write blogs on the road yes - update website no.

For half a year now I test Nokia's first netbook, the 3G - with increasing enthusiasm. The device captivates above all by the strong Apple-based design, stability and long battery life. However, this is reflected in the price.

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Nokia with your own maps

With the Nokia Booklet 3G I was really looking forward to one thing: the GPS function and mobile navigation options. Unfortunately, they weren't as fantastic as expected.

"Great!!!" I thought when I read that the Nokia Booklet 3G also has a GPS function. Even if I initially found the GPS on a netbook to be a little pointless: after all, it didn't open up as quickly as a cell phone to determine its current location.

Short joy

But I found this feature, to be honest, better than nothing. Maybe I'll go by train and have time to open the netbook and look it up.

But the joy did not last long. The first drawback was, that for the navigation no maps were delivered. Also not for post-installation. And that, although with the somewhat annoying Ovi suite all sorts of stuff, pardon, of course apps, can post-install. Also an Ovi Maps gadget!

Where are the Ovi Maps?

However, the terrific joke follows immediately: The Ovi Maps gadget does not contain any maps, it only serves to establish a direct connection to the online Ovi maps. And otherwise I have found no way to use the cards, which are otherwise intended for Nokia phones and thus the Symbian operating system, offline on the Windows-powered netbook.

On page 11 of the manual (which, as we all know, is just a small booklet) there is a section about Ovi maps that also starts full-bodied: “With the Internet service Ovi maps you can from anywhere on the Welt…blabla…” and it continues: “If the Maps 3.0 application is installed in Nokia Booklet 3G, you can synchronize places, collections and routes between Ovi Maps and the device” – but only after 3! Calling the Nokia hotline, which was necessary because the Employees didn't know either, they explained to me that this does not mean the Ovi cards on the Nokia netbook but on a separate mobile phone.

It may seem logical that a software for Symbian does not work on Windows - but since the netbook and mobile phones are from the same manufacturer, I would have expected something to bring the really ingenious feature on the netbook to work.

What is so cool about the Nokia cards?

A little digression: In order to understand the extent of the disappointment that came over me with this realization, one must know the following: Nokia's cards are not the best (I've tested them on a Windows Mobile 6.0 device last year) , but as far as I can see, the easiest and most practical way to download map material, and that from all over the world, offline on the Internet and play on the mobile phone.

This is useful for those who, despite the efforts of mobile network operators, still have no mobile data flatrate. And it is also useful if the flatrate is not available, as it often did in the test - eg in remote areas. Since I like to go hiking and recently moved from the Rhine to the Spree (which was also the reason for the long break in this test series, sorry), I have dealt extensively with mobile navigation options.

Result: If you want to save maps for free and offline on your phone, there is almost nothing better than Nokia Maps. Although there are various programs with which, for example, Google Maps can be made available offline and countless programs of the Open Street Map project, but you have to download the maps in very small sections only cumbersome. And of course there are also for Windows and the netbook this possibility - but the map download is just too cumbersome. Apart from the fact that most of these programs do not work properly without GPS.

The disappointment with the GPS follows on the foot

Now you could be happy because the Nokia Booklet has a GPS function. But far from it: GPS only works if the SIM card and thus the internet connection is activated. This is also revealed by the so-called manual on page 10: “The device supports A-GPS. With A-GPS, the device receives useful satellite information via the mobile network… ”

Aha ... so far so beautiful ... but then it says: "If you activate a program that uses position information, a 3G network connection must be active to activate A-GPS."

Brilliant. In plain language: GPS only works if you are online anyway. Probably I got the special one Sinn not yet developed by GPS, but: Since it is then also possible to determine the location with Google Maps, I ask myself: Why add GPS to the Nokia Booklet? Because it sounds good? ME it's just a pretty unnecessary gimick!

Conclusion

A clever moblie navigation solution is not available here either. At least not if you like me can not always be online or can.

Update: Maybe yes - see comments!

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application

Of course, the cool design is striking. This is not only noticeable to me, but is also addressed when you are “caught” with the little one while working.

In a detailed view, the processing also convinces: everything from one mold, just the hinge of the lid, a common weakness in laptops, overall very stable. Thanks to the aluminum housing, a fan could be dispensed with, so you do not have to worry, it gets unnecessary dirt into the computer.

Flatrate

In the first three months, the device was still running with a data flat rate or other functionalities, but I used comparatively little - to quickly tweet or post on Facebook the netbook takes too long to start up.

The attempts to use the netbook as a navigation device failed as well: Although Nokia is using GPS, but does not provide its users with free maps for download.

In addition, GPS works only when the UMTS connection is also active. However, there is now a solution to this problem, and there is also free map material for downloading and using offline maps. However, this is quite cumbersome.

Mobile Office

Where the NokiaNetbook works well, is where I would use a netbook also the most likely: As a kind of mobile typewriter, alternatively with Internet via WLAN or UMTS (practical, the Simcard slot on the side!).

Because the typing of texts works really fantastically. The battery life is as pleasant as it gets: depending on how I adjust screen brightness or use the data connection, the 8 battery keeps hours and more - even after half a year.

Battery life

Therefore, you do not have to recharge the device every day and can easily survive long train runs without a power outlet. In contrast to previous laptops, finally, a device with which one can sometimes sit for a few hours in a cafe or on the Spree, especially since it fits comfortably in the purse and you can carry it also because of the low weight the day about pleasant.

A prerequisite for getting the recharge time is, however, that the netbook is only hanged for charging: Because with every charge the battery heats up, which is anything but good for him. That is why I would like to make sure that the device is used for as long as absolutely necessary.

Image processing and blogging

Apart from the writing I do however hardly anything with the device: Bildbearbeitung with Gimp brought the device to crash, also bloggen works for me better, if I prescribe the texts with open office. Reason: On the small display, the use of my complicated WordPress-Backend is simply too frickelig. We would rather not talk about webdesign.

Price-Performance Ratio

Personally, however, the price would be too high for a mobile typewriter, which the laptop ultimately represents for me - even if the design, workmanship and battery life are certainly additional advantages. Then I would either be in real troubleebookUse a slightly larger 13 ″ display or an inexpensive netbook.


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