Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents
 

http://cdn1.afterdawn.com/v3/rss32x32.gifSprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents

8 July 2009 2:43 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz

http://cdn1.afterdawn.com/v3/news/sp...dx-netbook.jpg Sprint Nextel has announced that it will begin selling a heavily subsidized netbook, the Compaq Mini 110c-1040DX, for 99 cents, for users signing up for a two year contract.

The offer is only available through Best Buy. The Netbook by itself costs $390 USD at Best Buy and the retailer will begin selling the same Netbook with a two year Verizon contract for $199.99 USD, a huge premium over Sprint.

The Sprint 3G service contract costs $60 USD a month for 5GB of data, making the actual cost at the end of the contract $1440 for the netbook.

The Compaq itself uses Windows, has a 1.6GHz intel Atom Processor and 160GB hard drive.

Re: Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents
 

why not just buy a cheap little notebook and tether?..and the actual cost is $1440.99 ;)

Re: Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents
 

not worth it, unless you were getting the plan to begin with

Re: Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents
 

got the laptop.... works good... very happy

Re: Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents
 

Is the price really 60$

Re: Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents
 

FiOS is offering something similar. I'm considering switching even though I've been very happy with Comcast for years. My Asus G2SG weighs 10 pounds, having a 2 pound netbook to take to class and the library would be really nice.