The 22nd has come and gone and the Nokia Booklet 3G still isn’t available to purchase from Best Buy despite the demo model arriving. The netbook is however available to pre-order now from Best Buy. The price remains at the previously reported price of $599.99. Only the black model is available to pre-order at the moment but, the blue and white models will also be available soon.

The Nokia Booklet will also be available with an AT&T data plan. Once this becomes available the netbook price will drop to $299.

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While it isn’t available to purchase yet from Best Buy, over at Engadget they’ve got photos of the netbook being unboxed and shown with Windows 7. The netbook comes with the starter edition of Windows 7, which as Engadget note, only includes one wallpaper, the one shown but, I’m sure many will use their own photos anyway, or find other Windows 7 wallpapers from other sources. This is the first demo unit to arrive at Best Buy. You can view the photos of the unboxing after the jump.

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The lucky guys over at Laptop Mag have, as they put it, finally got their hands on the upcoming netbook from Nokia. In previous articles it’s been compared to the MacBook Air and this hands on is no different. It’s noted that while the netbook is slim and sleek at 19.99mm it’s heavier than expected at 2.6 pounds. Like the MacBook Air, the Nokia Booklet is constructed from a single piece of metal which adds the weight to the netbook but, gives it a beautiful aluminium chassis. Also adding to the weight of the netbook is an impressive 16 cell battery designed in the netbook and not sticking out. This gives the netbook up to 12 hours battery life.

Like most netbooks with glossy lids, unfortunately it picks up finger prints very easily. In the video we see the netbook in Aquamarine blue but, it’s also available in white. On the inside it features seamless edge to edge glass display, also found on the MacBook Air. However Laptop Mag feel the display could have been bigger than 10 inches by maker the bezel smaller. It’s also the same case with the keyboard, it feels like it could have been bigger and feels more cramped than other keyboards found on 10 inch netbooks.

You can view the video hands on here as embedding is, unfortunately not available.

Yesterday we reported that Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer to the Nokia Booklet 3G in the US. However no price was known for the netbook, or when it will be available but, rumours are pointing towards the 22nd of October. However a tipster sent in an inventory shot to Phone Arena which shows the price and release date. The inventory shot shows the netbook as being available from 25th of September but it will come with Windows 7 when released, pushing it back to probably the 22nd of October. The price is also listed as $599.99, making it $200 cheaper than it is in Europe, which was to be expected.

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While the Nokia Booklet may have already been released in Europe, it hasn’t set foot on American soil just yet and with the latest news it may not be seen in many homes across America. Nokia has previously had trouble getting their handsets subsidized in the US, so getting the netbook booklet subsidized seemed a little hopeful. It appears this may be the case as Best Buy will be the exclusive sellers of the Nokia Booklet 3G. Alternatively, Nokia will also be selling the Booklet online if you’d prefer not to deal with Best Buy, or want to deal with the company directly. No price has been confirmed or release date but, rumor is that it’ll arrive around the 22nd of October.

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The rumor about Nokia’s plan of releasing a netbook started during the Mobile World Congress. But it seems that it is no longer a rumor, as Digitimes reported that the company is currently negotiating with some Taiwan manufacturers. 

According to Digitimes, among those Taiwan makers in talks with Nokia are Compal Electronics and Foxconn Electronics.

No further information about the Nokia netbook are available yet. Nokia is still contemplating whether to use the standard Intel Atom processor or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform.  

With Nokia, a major mobile phone company getting into the netbook market, and Google Android rumored to be released for netbooks, one thing looks certainly clear – netbooks are here to stay, whether Psion likes it or not.

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If Russian site Mobile-Review’s editor Eldar is to be believed, we won’t just see ARM’s multi-core Sparrow processor on netbooks by 2011, but also on Nokia’s very first Linux-based MID. Pictured above is a mockup the guys at Unwired View did of the device, which is said to be a multi-slide keyboard and display equipped computer and cellphone hybrid. Its keys are small, diamond shaped and elevated, and they change with every application running on the device’s display. All this is based on info Eldar spewed after he got the chance to play with a prototype in one of Nokia’s closed booths at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. He also revealed a bit of the juicy stuff, but there’s surely more to know that he just won’t say. It would be interesting to see how Nokia’s final, finished product turns out. We’ll be giving updates on this as we get them, but for now, check out the sites linked below for more info.

Via Electronic Pulp and Unwired View