Wait, hold up -- before you sprint down to your Verizon store (sprint... Verizon... never mind) to pick up that catchily-named
Gateway LT2016u that just launched, you might want to mull over the next batch of netbooks primed to hit the carrier's outlets in the coming days. Subsidized netbooks still haven't proven themselves as viable products -- at least, so long as they're not subsidized down to $0 -- but Verizon's ready to keep on trying with the launch of a global 3G-equipped
HP Mini 311 on October 22. Sickeningly, they want a full $249.99 on contract after $100 mail-in rebate -- but in exchange, you'll be getting
ION, Windows 7, 1366 x 768 resolution on a 11.6-inch display, and a 1.6GHz Atom N270. Moving on, the carrier's current
Mini 1151 will ride off into the sunset and be replaced by a Windows XP-equipped
Mini 110 featuring a 160GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM; it'll launch once 1151 stock is depleted for $199.99 after rebate with a new two-year deal. Follow the break for details and specs on the 110 (spoiler: it's like pretty much every other 110, but with more voodoo subsidy math).
posted October 19th 2009 5:31AM
Generally people in the UK get screwed on prices, good old "rip off" Britain. But in the case of these netbooks on contracts, we seem to have quite a lot of choice. Not so crazy monthly charges and £0 down for a netbook over here. Keep up :D
Still doesn't seem like much of a deal. Consumers can get a similar spec'd machine for $350-$400, so whats the point of the additional 2 year contract?
$250 for an atom and I have to pay a monthly fee? You can do better than that Verizon. You're not even trying.
At least they got HP's, one of the most solid, most reliable PCs on the mar.......................................................***Hard drive died - Note: It was Hitachi"***
as long as the 5 gig cap is in Place I would never by Wireless broadband from any of these services
You would have to be an idiot to pay this.
Something is wrong with those prices.
What kind of gullible moron does Verizon think will pay for this? I mean really. I have a hard time picturing someone so dumb they'll actually think this is a good deal and I've seen a lot of idiots.
You'd think that with the prices they're charging, Verizon could spring for an hours work by a graphic designer using InDesign instead of having some administrative assistant create their ads in Word 97.
Its surprising how Engadget didn't rant about the prices, but were smoking guns when Nokia announced Booklet 3g pricing, which is quite better than this HP netbook and also lower in price without contract
with more features and 12hr battery life.
I don't know, I manage to call the pricing "sickening." Not heavy-handed enough?
Cut the Nokia hater witch hunt routine, it's really getting played out.