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Such a scheme will never reach Treasure Island...]]>Aug 11th 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/Aug 11th 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/
Over in Japan, unlike the US, there are laws against misuse of phones for criminal purposes (ie buying a prepaid phone for drug dealing etc) and require several forms of ID even for a very very basic prepaid phone.]]>Aug 11th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/Aug 11th 2009 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/Aug 11th 2009 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/Aug 11th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/Aug 11th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/
I think what HP will probably do will be charging full price for the Netbook and throw in a store value card with the same price (i.e. for 350 USD with 300 USD stored value)

Japanese mobile company are not charging cheap either ... 399 USD for 150 hr with USB thumb or 318 USD for 130 hr ....

http://www.bmobile.ne.jp/personal/3g/index.html

Let's wait and see]]>Aug 11th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/Aug 11th 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/hp-to-sell-contract-free-wwan-equipped-pcs-in-japan/
http://emobile.jp/charge/superlightdataplan.html

emobile down side is you have to use a usb / pc card dongle :(
'cause they opperate on 1700MHz - even if you unlock the internal modem in your PC you can not use it, no modem PCI cards use it

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The one thing I noticed is my battery life has been cut by about 30 minutes. i still have yet to install the eee-pc (asus included software) that has some utilities that manage battery life,etc...so it's still possible that I can get that lost battery life back...




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