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I think your right on, eventually you will have Hackintosh support for it, but like you said the 3G might not work well if at all, which would suck since thats what it is all about. I considered when i saw this article this morning about how Ubuntu would run on it, and i thought about the same thing, there might not be 3G support in these type of OS for awhile.

Yeah, the thing I wonder though is how much 3G access would cost each month. While I would love this sort of thing, I'm not sure I want to spend another $60 a month on internet access on top of the internet access I pay for at home and my cell phone's data plan.

Yeah i had the same thought as well. I would imagine they would try and charge somewhere around what they charge for the laptop adapters right now and those are just way to expensive, well on some plans they are. Plus i would imagine they would limit bandwith each month. I wonder though since it is designed to be hot swappable if you could just through your cell phone sim card in there and it would work, although the lack of cell phone while using this would make it counter productive.

Certainly would make a nice Hackint0sh .. looks like a really good bit of design. Lets hope that they use lots of nice standard components for the WiFi and 3G !

Watch out for power management -- that 12-hour rating may be partly because of Windows 7's netbook optimizations.

OS X has some sort of native 3G/WWAN support. Go into System>Library>Core Services>Menu Extras and there's a thing for WWAN. When double clicked it provides a Menulet for 3G access. Not sure about how it works, but I'm willing to bet it won't be hard for the hackintosh community to figure it all out.

support.apple.com­/kb­/HT1122

"Note: While these devices are supported on the AT&T network, they may also work on other GSM networks throughout the world. It may be necessary to modify the APN value to the correct setting for your carrier. Please consult your service provider for more details. Using Mac OS X v10.5.2 or later, it's possible to modify the APN value by opening the Network preferences in System Preferences, choosing your WWAN device, then clicking the Advanced tab."

The Nokia 3G comes with Bluetooth built in so an option is to not enable the 3G and instead use Bluetooth to your cellphone as a tethered modem. If you have a data plan on your phone already then you may be able to piggy back on that plan. That is probably a reasonable solution for occasional use when out of range of wifi.

I use this with my MacbookPro and Blackberry.

See friendfeed.com­/nokia­-booklet­/6b8c23f7­/rene­-rebe­-bl... for an example.

Has anyone tried to boot Ubuntu or any other version of Linux on the Booklet?

Agreed. Someone needs to figure it all out and basically make a plan that's all the internet you want, on all of your devices for a reasonable price ($99.99 / month?).