I don’t know how this piece of news went passed me (actually, I know… I was on holidays) but there’s a Nokia netbook that’s about to hit the market really soon. The question every interested person or party must be asking is wether the Nokia Booklet 3G stands a chance in the super competitive mini laptop industry that’s currently dominated by the Acer Aspire One.

I have a feeling that the Nokia Booklet 3G netbook will not have an easy ride and will have a hard time having an impact on the computer industry. Here are a few reasons:

1) A Nokia netbook does not make sense. Netbooks are small notebooks which are computers. Nokia is a mobile phone manufacturer. Yes, the Nokia Booklet 3G is a communication device but it’s not a mobile phone and the consumer will be rather stick with a netbook notebook made by a computer company

2) The first netbook notebook was launched in 1997 2007 (I meant to write), that’s two years ago. The Nokia Booklet 3G has just been announced and Lord knows when it will be released. Unless the Nokia netbook will have some features that will be worth the wait, it will be yet another netbook brand and model and will be barely noticed.

3) The Nokia Booklet 3G faces formidable competition from so many brands and models. And some of these competitors are not small players. Acer, HP, Dell, Apple (soon), Asus to name a few. If Dell and HP are having a hard time competing with the Acer Aspire One [See: Asus vs Acer: Why the Acer Aspire One Is the Most Popular Netbook] what chances does the forthcoming Nokia netbook have?

To survive this tough segment, the Nokia Booklet 3G netbook will have to have something so different à la Apple iPod revolutionizing the MP3 player market. If that does not happen, the Nokia netbook will make news when it is released and will never be heard of again or until it makes news that it is being discontinued.

What say you? Am I full of crap or is the Nokia netbook doomed before it’s even out?