O2 Germany to Launch Nokia Booklet 3G

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Just a few days ago I was telling you how Nokia’s first netbook, the Booklet 3G, will be a Best Buy exclusive in the USA for now as no carrier has decided to subsidize it yet. That is clearly not the case in Europe. In fact, German customers will be able to get the Booklet 3G from O2 in a couple of weeks.

O2 Germany will launch the Nokia Booklet 3G on October 22. The computer is bundled with a data plan and thus you’ll be able to get it at for a much cheaper price. Sure you’ll have to move to Germany first and then go ahead and purchase it, but once you’ve done that you’re in the clear.

If you are in Germany however, then you should have all the pricing details just so you can make an informed decision. The Booklet 3G will be available for €249, or about $365 if you decide to sign up for a new two-year O2 data plan worth €20, or about $29, per month. If my math is correct then you would end up paying €729, or about $941, for the netbook over two years and you’ll also have a data plan ready to let you browse the Internet at any time as long as you’re within range of an O2 cell phone tower.

We didn’t have pricing information before for the Booklet 3G offered by Best Buy but now we do! You’ll have to pay $600 outright for the netbook and I am pretty sure you’re not going to get any decent data plan for the remainder $341 over the next two years in order to match O2’s offer. In other words it would look like O2 Germany has a much better deal than Best Buy. But then again I might be wrong and U.S. carriers will start loving this little computer all of a sudden.

We’re still waiting for O2 to officially announce all this. Rumor has it there will also be a €25 data plan version which means that you might get the Booklet 3G for under €150 but that’s just speculation at this point. We will let O2 make all the appropriate calculations and return with the final results in the following weeks.