Nokia's Booklet 3G netbook coming to Best Buy for $299, with AT&T contract

The first notebook PC from the worlds biggest phone maker is coming to the U.S. this month, and it's a lot cheaper than many expected: just $299 at Best Buy, although you'll have to sign two years of your life away to AT&T.

The Windows 7-powered Booklet 3G, which Nokia first unveiled back in August, will arrive at Best Buy—and only at Best Buy—on October 22, the same day as Windows 7, Engadget reports.
 
Armed with a glass 10.1-inch glass display, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, built-in 3G wireless, and—according to Nokia, at least—an astounding (and "real") 12 hours of battery life, the Booklet 3G will probably turn into the gotta-have netbook (or "mini laptop," as Nokia puts it) of the season, what with its glossy aluminum shell, GPS capabilities, and Nokia's bundled Ovi software suite.
 
Rumor had it that the Booklet 3G would end up going for an unsubsidized $600, but here it is for just $299 with a two-year AT&T contract—or at least, that's unexpectedly cheap by Nokia standards. After all, AT&T already has three other netbooks—the Acer Aspire One, the Dell Mini 10, and the Lenovo S10—all selling for $199, subsidized.
 
The $299 price tag also comes with strings: namely, a two-year commitment to AT&T 3G data service, which will run you a cool $60 a month. And then there's the issue of AT&T's network, which has been straining under the load of all those iPhones.
 
Still, the 2.75-pound Booklet 3G is certainly turning heads. I haven't seen it in the flesh yet, but Gizmodo says the netbook's aluminum unibody design (similar to the new MacBooks) is "made of sturdy stuff," and calls its "soft-coated keys" a "pleasant surprise" despite its "slightly cramped layout." That said, Gizmodo knocked the "underpowered" 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor (although to be fair, you're barking up the wrong tree if you're planning on playing 1080p video on a netbook like this).
 
So, show of hands: Who's thinking of snapping up a Nokia Booklet 3G? And are you willing to pay a $100 premium (compared to AT&T's other netbooks, among others) for a Nokia device?
 
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Nokia tells all on Booklet 3G: $299 with a 2-year contract on AT&T [Engadget]