Verizon Offers Free Netbooks With BlackBerry Tour
14.08.09
Verizon Wireless is again contribution a second BlackBerry with each one purchased, but this time the deal includes any other seal -- of equal or lesser value -- that Verizon sells.
That means new subscribers, or those signing new two-year contracts, can get a for free netbook with a BlackBerry Tour smartphone. The Tour costs US$199.99 after Verizon's deduct, and the least-expensive netbook Verizon sells is the HP Mini 1151 NR, also priced at $199.99. Those customers could also get any USB, PC Possible or ExpressCard modem the carrier offers.
The offer also covers the Perceptive Mobile Hotspot, a $199.99 battery-powered 3G modem that includes a Wi-Fi access site that can be used with any five Wi-Fi devices. To get any of these devices free with the BlackBerry, the customer would have to countersign up for a two-year contract for both devices. Monthly data plans start at $39.99 with a 250MB cap and $59.99 with a 5GB cap.
Investigate In Motion and Verizon both have been working hard to grab concentration and sales from the still-popular Apple iPhone, which in the U.S. is offered only on Verizon adversary AT&T's network. A BlackBerry buy-one-get-one offer that Verizon ran earlier this year was very much credited with helping the BlackBerry Curve beat the iPhone in item sales in the first quarter. The BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first touch-screen output, also debuted to hot sales in that quarter.
Source: PC World