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You don’t see a lot of PMPs or netbooks out there with carrier branding, but both the Archos 5 and the Eee PC have gotten themselves 3G-enabled recently, and French wireless company SFR isn’t wasting any time with the silkscreen machine — it’s just announced subsidized versions of both. The Archos 5 3G+ comes dressed in sharp new black suit and features a smaller 30GB drive to go with its integrated 3G modem and custom SFR menu items — you’re looking at €249 ($320) with a monthly data fee of €19 ($24) for existing SFR customers or €24 ($30) for new subs. More or less the same deal with the Eee 901: you’re getting the familiar 1.6GHz Atom with 1GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD, and an integrated 3G modem for €279 ($358) with €29 ($37) / €34 ($43) monthly contract fees. Hopefully we’ll see some Stateside carriers pick up on this trend soon, eh?

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Filed under: Laptops, Portable Audio, Portable Video, Wireless

You don’t see a lot of PMPs or netbooks out there with carrier branding, but both the Archos 5 and the Eee PC have gotten themselves 3G-enabled recently, and French wireless company SFR isn’t wasting any time with the silkscreen machine — it’s just announced subsidized versions of both. The Archos 5 3G+ comes dressed in sharp new black suit and features a smaller 30GB drive to go with its integrated 3G modem and custom SFR menu items — you’re looking at €249 ($320) with a monthly data fee of €19 ($24) for existing SFR customers or €24 ($30) for new subs. More or less the same deal with the Eee 901: you’re getting the familiar 1.6GHz Atom with 1GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD, and an integrated 3G modem for €279 ($358) with €29 ($37) / €34 ($43) monthly contract fees. Hopefully we’ll see some Stateside carriers pick up on this trend soon, eh?

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You know it’s getting bad when even Amazon can’t tell all the flavors of the Eee PC apart — a listing for an “Eee PC 900″ with 16GB of flash and an Atom processor just went live on the etailer’s site with a pre-order price of $399. Those are actually the specs and tasty price of the long-awaited Eee 901, so we’re going to say that ASUS’s endless stream of minor new Eee models has everyone confused, and that the 901 looks like it’s ready to drop — is the is the Eee that’ll finally make you take the plunge?

[Thanks, Carl]

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You know it’s getting bad when even Amazon can’t tell all the flavors of the Eee PC apart — a listing for an “Eee PC 900″ with 16GB of flash and an Atom processor just went live on the etailer’s site with a pre-order price of $399. Those are actually the specs and tasty price of the long-awaited Eee 901, so we’re going to say that ASUS’s endless stream of minor new Eee models has everyone confused, and that the 901 looks like it’s ready to drop — is this the Eee that’ll finally make you take the plunge?

Update: NewEgg just went live with the 12GB XP-based 901 for $599.999999. Shipping today. Also, Amazon is now listing XP and Linux-based 901s for the same price although still as pre-orders. Our advice: stay away from the so-called Atom-based Eee PC 900 until Amazon claifies the configuration.

[Via I4U, thanks Carl]

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It was just yesterday that the official announcement of the Atom-based MSI Wind’s pricing prompted us to wonder where ASUS’s promised Atom Eee 900 was, and would you look at that — here’s the Eee 901, looking radiant in white. Of course, the major changes are internal, so the exterior looks pretty much the same — apart from some extra buttons and the relocation of the power jack — but it’s good to know this thing is inching closer to release. Now if we could just get some benchmarks and pricing info, we’d be all set. Check the read link for tons more pics.

[Via jkkmobile]

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