Verizon to Offer HP Mini 1000 Netbook and ‘MiFi’ Service due on May 17

If you wish to buy notebooks of Dell and Acer at a discounted price, all you need to do is get into multi-year contract of wireless broadband service from AT&T. Yes! That is the deal between AT&T with partners Dell and Acer.

Similarly, it has been confirmed that Verizon is also coming into the market by selling HP mini 1000 notebooks at prices much lower if and only if the customers sign on the dotted lines of a 2-year wireless service contract.

There is much speculation on the pricing of the notebook as well as on the release date. Expected to be launched sometime in a weeks’ time from now, (rumored that it is due to be launched by May 17, 2009) it will not be a surprise if the notebook is made available at less than 200 bucks ($199) price (the pricing is yet to be confirmed though), but of course with a contract for 2 years and that’s not sickish considering the price advantage.

The model will be actually HP 1151NR, with a slight variation from its predecessor HP mini 1000. The notebook will sport a 10.1-inch monitor, and the tech specifications include: 1GB of RAM, 80GB Hard drive and a 1024×576 pixel clarity display with an integrated 3G modem.

The notebook is available with 3-cell battery. So, Verizon makes your HP mini notebook available to you at a cheaper price or else you need to buy a HP mini notebook starting from $350 and get that configured with 3G modem.

All said it is not one I would love to buy, I rather invest in a USB drive than spending 200 bucks even if someone yells its low on a netbook and why should I take the 2-year contract. Its so sicking, I hated this arrangement, maybe even if the netbook comes for free; a 6 month contract could be sensible.

It doesn’t make any sense to hang around with same netbook for over 24 months, at least me. The netbook will become obsolete by then. Doesn’t it?

Asus K Series K40IN-A1 Now Available in US, Features GeForce G102M

The Asus K Series K40IN-A1 laptop is launched and is presently available in the United States. The K401N-A1 is a 14 incher with LED backlit display that comes with an aspect ratio of 16:9 and a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels the display will be great.

Aside it has an Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2 GHz processor. There is a 512MB video card which is from the GeForce G102M and a dedicated frame buffer. Asus K401N-A1 also has a memory of 4GB DDR2, and the laptop comes with a DVD writer and a 320GB hard disk. The K401N-A1 comes with in built webcam and 1 Gigabit inbuilt Ethernet cord and a LAN port. It also has 802.11b/g/n WIFI with a VGA and MMC/SD/MS media card reader. The laptop comes with Windows Vista Home edition operating system.

The ASUS K Series K401N-A1 laptop runs on 6-celled battery and don’t expect great battery life than 5 hours on continuous computing for the configuration but its light in weight with 5.3 lbs.

Sony Ericsson Yari Mobile Phone Review

Sony Ericsson Yari –Entertainment Unlimited. Sony Ericsson plans to launch mobile phones to combat the recession that has set in with company sales of the otherwise mid-segment phones. The Yari model from Sony Ericsson is basically for the game freaks and is a gaming handset that will revolutionize communication merged gaming industry with Gesture gaming technology.

The handset is expected to rock the gaming world with accelerometer for motion-controlled playing. What does it mean? It implies that you will no longer need otherwise push buttons to control the game. And again Sony Yari will be there with lot many new games.

This handset is a slider Yari model and comes equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with features including auto focus, face and smile detection as well as geo tagging.

The sleek and light weight Yari will support Microsoft Exchange Active Sync and will be available in two shades of achromatic black and cranberry white. It comes with a 2.4-inch display screen, a 60 MB of storage with 1GB micro SD memory card. For enhanced location-based applications there exists A-GPS support for Yari. Network that Yari supports include GSM, EDGE, GPRS and HSDPA. So you name one, it will support, cool!

Sony Ericsson Aino Mobile Phone Review

Pocketable Sony Ericsson Aino. I simply love the names in the Sony product portfolio, the latest Aino is no exception.

Aino, is the new handset from Sony Ericsson weighing juts about 134 grams and measuring 104×50x15.5mm. Now that size cannot tell what it has in store for you guys!

The new handset comes equipped with a slider numeric keyboard and a 3.2-inch touch screen. It may not be a PSP phone but Aino is the first phone with Remote Play. It is an entertaining slider, but unfortunately, the look of Aino is not breathtakingly beautiful.

However, Sony Aino is the first phone to sport touch screen display and a widescreen together. The USP of the model is that it can wirelessly connect to a PS3 from anywhere. You can keep yourself abreast with the latest music, play games and watch videos over Wi-Fi; a mobile phone finally that can sync so well with both your PC and Play station 3.

Well you can also snap your friends with an 8.1 megapixel camera that has auto focus, LED flash, geotagging facility, face detection and image stabilization technology and HSDPA high speed data. It also comes with a multimedia player and an FM radio. This Aino will be available with 55MB memory with micro SD card slot upto 16GB.

This particular smart phone from Sony Ericsson is expected to hit the market in the coming quarter of 2009 in Luminous white and Obsidian Black colors.