Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents

gutrrob · #1 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 11:02 AM

Sprint to sell Netbook for 99 cents

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

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.

**jason25** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 11:20 AM

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

zagguru · #3 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 11:34 AM

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

setox · #4 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 01:10 PM

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

gutrrob · #5 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 04:08 PM

Is the price really 60$

Gulanowski · #6 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 12:19 AM

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.