Nokia has released a "mini-notebook".  With the flurry of netbook models since the launch of the Asus EEE in late 2007, the mobile phone giant enters a crowded market.

This isn't to say that Nokia's Booklet 3G doesn't have some features that allow it to stand out in the crowd. It has an integrated assisted GPS and HDMI for HD video output. HD netbooks aren't all that common. Style-wise with its aluminium case and 10-inch glass screen, it looks to be pitched a bit more towards mobile executives who might splash out on sub-notebooks. Sub-notebooks are full-fledged laptops packed into a tiny package, but the cost of the small package is a huge price tag.

Detailed specifications will be released next week at the Nokia World conference. Nokia has said that it is powered by an Intel Atom processor. That, probably wed to 6- or 9-cell battery, accounts for its reported 12 hours of battery life. If you're watching HD video, you'll most likely get no where near 12-hours of battery life.

Next week, we'll also find out exactly what kind of Intel Atom chip and chipset is inside. HD video was beyond the first generation and most current generation netbooks, but earlier this year, Intel released the N280 Atom processor with a new video chipset, the GN40, which added 720p video playback and 1080p streaming internet video. Nokia also could have added Nvidia's Ion chipset, and some HD netbooks manage to push the pixels by using standard laptop video cards.

Nokia's netbook is running Windows 7. The GN40 supports Windows' graphically intensive Aero interface, if that is the chipset that Nokia has chosen.