It's a smartphone! It's a notebook! No, it's a Booklet 3G!

SHOWCASE: Nokia has unveiled the new Windows-based Nokia Booklet 3G to the world just a few minutes ago. The mini-notebook is powered by Intel’s Atom processor, with promises of a 12-hour battery life, 1.25kg weight and a thickness slightly over 2cm.

Connections wise, it will come with 3G/HSPA and Wi-Fi (with Nokia’s broad suite of Ovi services of course), as well as HDMI, front facing camera (video conferencing), integrated Bluetooth and an SD card reader.

The display itself is 10.1-inch HD-ready while there’s an integrated A-GPS which will work with Ovi Maps gadget. Of course, expect access to millions of tracks via Nokia Music Store, and Ovi Suite to sync with your Nokia smartphones.

Here’s a quick video on Booklet 3G:

Further information, including detailed specifications, market availability and pricing, will be announced at Nokia World on September 2. Meanwhile, here are some shots of the Booklet 3G.

CORP TALK: DigiTimes has followed on a Commercial Times report where AMD is planning to unveil its new notebook platform (Tigris) at Computex 2009 in Taiwan. The platform is based on a 45-nanometer (nm) dual-core Caspian CPU, RS880M chipsets, and either a 55-nm or 40-nm M9X graphics processor unit.

According to the report, AMD might also unveil its notebook platform, codenamed Danube, for 2010, featuring its 45-nm quad-core Champlain processor and SB8xxM series chipset. So expect AMD to push its Yukon and Congo platforms for 13-inch and below notebooks while promoting Tigris 14-inchers and above at Computex 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan (2-6 June 2009). (Editor opinions: 1)

Vijay Anand, Editor, HardwareZone.com

Vijay (HardwareZone.com): AMD has had a very decent notebook platform ever since Puma debuted at last year’s Computex (we first reported it as a preview here, then Computex here and finally the Singapore launch here).

However, there is a need for the company to design its notebook platforms within a certain thermal design specification to maintain decent performance and uptime, considering the workload demands and the multi-tasking culture of notebook users today. (more…)

Dell has claimed that the Adamo is the world's thinnest laptop at 0.65 inches thick at its thickest point.

SHOWCASE: Style-minded people take note. Dell unveiled the world’s thinnest laptop as part of its new Adamo line today. According to Dell, even at its thickest point, the notebook is thinner than any other laptop. Adamo, which means “to fall in love” in Latin, will serve as a flagship line of products that combines new design aesthetics, personalization choices and must-have tech.

The marketing campaign for Dell's Adamo includes imagery shot by acclaimed British-based photographer Nadav Kander, which features high-fashion models that reinforce the “fall in love” positioning.

What makes the Adamo impressive is the craftsmanship and feature sets, including a chassis milled from a single piece of aluminum (with scalloped backlit keyboard), a prominent high definition edge-to-edge display, full connectivity for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and optional integrated mobile broadband, solid state drives and a color choice of either Onyx or Pearl.

With pre-orders now available online, the Adamo notebook will ship from 24 countries from 26 March 2009 onwards, including Singapore (starting from S$3,249/US$2126), Malaysia (RM7399/US$2009) and Indonesia (price to be confirmed) for South-east Asia.

Specs and images after the jump. (Editor opinions: 1)

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T&A: NVIDIA has unveiled the fastest notebook GPU in the market at CeBIT 2009 - the GeForce GTX 280M - which is able to perform 50% better than previous generation enthusiast notebook GPUs.

According to NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 280M GPU is currently the world's fastest notebook GPU.

The line-up also includes the GeForce 260M GPU for enthusiast notebooks, and GeForce GTS 160M and 150M GPUs for high-performance, sleek notebooks. The GTX 200M series GPUs are built on 55-nanometer process based on the G92 GPU architecture. 

Basically, two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs can be paired (on NVIDIA SLI technology) to really pump up graphics performance.  The GTX 200M and GTS 100M series GPUs feature NVIDIA CUDA computing architecture, allowing software developers to compile and code algorithms for the GPU. (Editor opinions: 1)

Vijay Anand, Editor, HardwareZone.com

Vijay (HardwareZone.com): Kudos to NVIDIA for improving notebook graphics performance with newer GPUs for the performance notebook market, but we could really benefit from the newer GT200 based GPU architecture rather than grind the existing G92 core that has been extensively featured in three different generations of GPU models.

The CeBIT 09-announced ASUS Lamborghini VX5 boasts a 1-terabyte solid state drive, Core 2 Quad processor, 16-inch Full HD display, NVIDIA GeForce graphics and Blu-ray drive.

T&A: Looks like ultra-large storage space with no moving parts is fast becoming a hot topic, especially when it comes bundled in a top-of-the-line notebook. Unveiled at the CeBIT tradeshow, currently ongoing in Hannover, Germany (of which yes, our Vijay Anand, Editor for HardwareZone.com is there reporting), ASUS has revealed its latest ASUS Lamborghini VX5 notebook which packs the 1-terabyte solid state drive (SSD). 

The notebook itself boasts an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 4GB memory, 16.9-inch Full HD display, an NVIDIA GeForce GT130M graphics chipset with GDDR3 1GB VRAM, illuminated keyboard and a Blu-ray Disc combo optical drive. 

No pricing info yet, but we’re guessing it’s going to be as stratospheric as the high-end specs here.