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Monday, April 21, 2008

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Are Subsidized Mini-Notebooks The Wave of the Future?

- Warner Crocker

N1170UMPCPortal is linking to a Linux Wizard article and offers up info on a marriage between Airis and Telefonica in Spain that offers users a subsidized price of 99 Euro price point on the 299 Euro VIA-based Airis Kira. That initial price point will cost you 40 Euro a month for connectivity charges. It will be interesting to see if we see this kind of subsidized marketing here in the US?

So, I’m curious. Would you be interested in looking at a contract plus purchase option for an ultra-portable?

 

 



Monday, April 21, 2008 7:01:51 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I guess I would. I have seen the ASUS Eee PC 701 working and it's a piece of art.
Monday, April 21, 2008 7:11:25 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I would hope that cellphones would move towards PC type business models, not the reverse. In the late 1980s and early 1990s France used a cellphone type of business model for their Minitel web-precursor. It is no accident that the true vitality of the web came from a more open model.
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