SmarTone Vodafone rolls out Vitesse netbook in Hong Kong

SmarTone Vodafone has announced its own 10-inch netbook, Vitesse. The Vitesse will be available for free to customers with 2 years wireless broadband service plan. The netbook comes with an 10.1-inch glossy screen, 1024 x 600 display. It has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB SSD. It comes with a 3 cell battery 1800mAh, which should give you 1.5-2 hours of run time.

Commentary: It is pity that most of the wireless broadband service providers equip ‘their’ netbooks with 3-cell batteries which do not last for more than 2 hours on a single charge, that basically destroys the main purpose of carrying a netbooks: ability to do serious work while on the go.

Vodafone UK offers Samsung NC10 netbook – for free..kind of

Vodafone UK is the first operator in UK to offer the Samsung NC10. This Samsung NC10 netbook comes with built-in mobile broadband module. Vodafone UK is offering it for free under their 2 year contract for £25 per month with 1GB monthly bandwidth. There is another plan which offers 3GB monthly bandwidth, but will cost you £30 per month.

The Samsung NC10 is still a pretty decent netbook that comes with 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Atom N270 processor and has a great keyboard.

Dell Mini 10 3G version now available in China

Dell has shaked hands with the China Mobile to let the users enjoy 3G services on the go. Not only China Mobile, Dell has teamed up with other global telecom providers including Vodafone in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, AT&T in the US, M1 and Starhub in Singapore, and Maxis in Malaysia.

It will retailed at $575 in China.

Vodafone has a update for HTC TOUCH Diamond users

This is a great news for those people who have purchased HTC Touch Diamond from Vodafone UK.  Vodafone has made numerous enhancements to improve performance and functionality. If you’ve done this update (version 1.97.161.4), please tell us what’s included. Is anything updated or fixed? Get the update from here