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Sprint is now offering a netbook, the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 at Sprint Stores throughout the Bay Area for $199.99 with activation on a Sprint Mobile Broadband plan and a two-year service agreement, after a $100 mail-in rebate.

Dell Inspiron Mini 10 weighs  2.6 pounds and measures 10.3 inches (L) x 7.2 (W) inches x 1.1 inches (D). Its 10.1-inch LED, 1024 x 600 WSGVA screen is perfect for managing email or web surfing. It offers an Intel Atom Processor Z520, Microsoft Windows Home XP SP3 Edition, a built-in 1.3MP webcam, 160 GB Hard Drive, Integrated Intel 500 Media Accelerator Graphics, 5-in-1 media reader, Bluetooth technology and Wi-Fi 802.11g.

Customers purchasing Dell Inspiron Mini 10 will also sign up for Sprint's Mobile Broadband Connection Plan offering 5 GB of data for $59.99 per month with a two-year service agreement. Remember if you use a lot of video, you could over 5 gigabytes a month.

Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer of the Nokia netbook computer selling it for $299 to customers who sign up for a $60-a-month mobile service plan with AT&T. The Nokia Booklet 3G is a super slim netbook running Windows 7.

Nokia and Microsoft are booking on their partnership. Today Nokia let the world know that they will be selling a netbook they call Nokia Booklet 3G.  Pricing will be announced at Nokia World on September 2.

Powered by the  Intel Atom processor, the Nokia Booklet 3G delivers  with up to 12 hours of battery life,

The aluminum chassis, of the new mini-laptop weighs 1.25 kilograms, measures slightly more than two centimeters thin,. A broad range of connectivity options - including 3G/ HSPA and Wi-Fi - gives consumers high speed access to the Internet, including Nokia's broad suite of Ovi services.

"A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Devices. "We are in the business of connecting people and the Nokia Booklet 3G is a natural evolution for us. Nokia has a long and rich heritage in mobility and with the outstanding battery life, premium design and all day, always on connectivity, we will create something quite compelling. In doing so we will make the personal computer more social, more helpful and more personal."

The mini-laptop also comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera for video calling, integrated Bluetooth and an easily accessible SD card reader. Other premium features include the 10-inch glass HD ready display and integrated A-GPS which, working with the Ovi Maps gadget, can pinpoint your position in seconds and open up access for a truly personal maps experience. The Nokia Booklet 3G also brings a number of other rich Ovi experiences to life, whether its access and playback of millions of tracks through the Nokia Music Store, or using Ovi Suite to sync seamlessly from your Nokia smartphone, to your mini-laptop, to the cloud.

The Nokia Booklet 3G will widen the Nokia portfolio, satisfying a need in the operator channel, and bringing another important ingredient in the move towards becoming a mobile solutions company.

Smartphone and price wars have hit Verizon today with new promotions for free BlackBerry smartphones, phones and more. All you have to do is go  over to the Verizon deals page and there are tons of bargains for free devices floating around. There's added bonus for this weekend in the BlackBerry department, free activation for  8/14-8/17.

When you buy one BlackBerry like the BlackBerry Tour and you get one free. (Free BlackBerry or other device must be of equal or lesser value. Therefore, you could get two BlackBerry Tour smartphones for $199 or two BlackBerry Storm smartphones for $99 of two BlackBerry Curve 8830 smartphones for $49.99. 

The last buy one get one free BYGOF BlackBerry offer from Verizon helped keep BlackBerry smartphones in the top of the smartphone category.  The BlackBerry Curve which was promoted and often free, ranked as the top smartphone in the second quarter of this year.

Verizon also has a buy one LG Chocolate and get one free and buy a netbook and get a free

An added bonus for Wireless and Mobile News readers is this Instant Phone Rebate Only Available with Online Purchase link so that you don't have wait for your rebate. Several sources have verified that you can any device such as a netbook with the buy-one-get-one deal with a BlackBerry smartphone.

If you are single and only looking for single BlackBerry plan and you a new customer, s Wirefly offers BlackBerry Tour to $49.99 with a new contract. Wirefly shows ways can get up $50 trade-in for your old phone. For an added bonus add the  Get a Free 2GB Memory Card with any cell phone purchase. (enter coupon code WIREFLYMCARD9 at checkout.) Wirefly often offers free BlackBerry smartphones to new customers with a contract.

AT&T has added new netbooks that include the Acer Aspire One, the Dell Inspiron Mini 10, and the Lenovo S10.

AT&T will offer the Acer Aspire One throughout stores nationwide. The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and Lenovo S10 will be available in multiple stores and all devices will be available for purchase soon online at www.att.com and other direct sales channels. The netbooks will cost $199.99 after mail-in rebate via AT&T Promotion Card with a two-year service contract.

The netbooks feature 10-inch screens and weigh less than 3 pounds. The promotional netbook pricing requires the purchase of a two-year AT&T DataConnect plan - including a 200MB plan for $40 per month or a 5GB plan for $60 per month. AT&T DataConnect plans offer consumer and small business subscribers access to the nation's fastest 3G mobile broadband network, along with unlimited use of AT&T Wi-Fi service, featuring more than 20,000 hot spots nationwide.