You read that right – we said free!

As we previously reported, Vodafone and Dell teamed up to offer 3G services for the Dell Inspiron Mini. Vodafone have now announced that they will be offering a free Dell Mini Inspiron 9 when you sign up with them on a mobile broadband contract!

We can’t give details on price plans as Vodafone are yet to announce that information so, free may or may not come at a price but, with Vodafone’s current mobile broadband packages coming in at £15 or £25 a month for 3GB of data usage and 5gb respectively, with a minimum contract time of 24 months, it could be a very sweet deal for some customers that are happy to stick with the same model for 2 years.

Here is the link to register interest if you wish to be kept up to date with the offer: Mini9 Free Vodafone.

Source: Electric Pig

Dell’s still to be named mini laptop that we mentioned a couple of days ago may be up for release sometime in August. This was confirmed by Alex Gruzen, senior vice president for Dell’s Consumer Product Group.

Gruzen also explains the reason why Dell might be getting into late into the mini-laptop market as competitors like Acer and MSI each have already launched their mini-laptop models. He said that Dell is still working on the right keyboard to use for their mini-laptop which is unique to Dell.

Other hardware specs of the said Dell mini-machines remained undisclosed still. But it would definitely feature an Atom processor, unless Dell don’t want to give the competition a good battle.

Via [APC]