On Monday I met up with a few Nokia folks for some time with the Nokia Booklet 3G for AT&T in the US. We bowled afterwards too, but I won’t tell you how bad I scored. Instead, I’ll give you an overview of the Booklet, thanks to Nokia’s Joe Gallo who didn’t mind getting in front of camera for our blog readers.

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The first time I had my hands on the Booklet 3G was at Nokia World, but we didn’t get the specific pricing for the US market back then. As seen on the video, it will be available in time for the holidays, priced at $299 with contract ($599 without) on AT&T’s 3G network. You can find it exclusively at Best Buy.

Mr. Gallo explained that there’s a dedicated AT&T plan for the Nokia Booklet 3G. That means we can’t take our existing AT&T SIM card from our current phones and pop it into the Booklet for data.

The Booklet 3G looks great. It reminds me of Apple’s Macbooks whose designs I absolutely love. The reported battery life also makes it very appealing to just put in the bag without the power adapter. One thing I’m concerned about is the performance. I was shown an early model, but I noticed some of the apps took time to load. I’ll have my hands on a retail version shortly so I can perform more accurate tests and provide a better opinion.