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Title: Orange to bundle free Eee with HSDPA modem, airtime Post by: mobaholic on August 18, 2008, 10:21:00 AM "Orange will tomorrow offer Brits Asus' newly announced (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/14/eee_line_extended/) Eee PC 900 16G for... well... nothing at all. There's no such thing as a free lunch, of course, or a free laptop for that matter. While there's no up-front cost for the Eee, Orange will expect punters to sign up for a two-year, £25-a-month airtime contract. That package grants users up to 3GB of data transfers a month, and up to 100 text messages sent from the machine. Orange UK's deal follows similar packages offered elsewhere in the world, including the 50p Eee (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/11/cut_price_eee_japan/) offered in Japan, and a £78 Small, Cheap Computer (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/27/france_cutprice_scc/) deal punted in France. The Eee 900 16G comes with an 8.9in display and 16GB of solid-state storage. It's based on Intel's 900MHz Celeron M 353 processor and has 1GB of DDR 2 memory. The deal also bundles a gratis Option Icon 225 USB 3G modem, which supports HSDPA at up to 7.2Mb/s. The Asus deal goes live on 16 August, through Orange shops and its website". Source:- The Register (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/15/orange_free_eee/). |