Toshiba has announced that it plans to add an internal UMTS antenna to its plump NB100 netbook in March. This should help bolster the sales of this rather bland-looking netbook, though the battery life will surely be the first one to take a hit out of this. Toshiba didn’t specify how much exactly will be added to the NB100’s price with the addition of built-in 3G, but it shouldn’t be too far away from the original price. Aside from adding integrated UMTS, no other improvements are mentioned for the Toshiba NB100.

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Toshiba have an offer running until the of 15th January that can nab you a free netbook – it’s free if you live in Australia and you purchase another Toshiba product.

Customers who purchase a Toshiba XV500 series LCD HDTV with a 37, 42 or 46 inch screen between the 1st of December, and 15th of January can redeem their free netbook online up until the 29th January 2009. The netbook that Toshiba are giving away is the NB100 which usually retails at $799. You can redeem your netbook at www.toshibaav .com.au/redemption.

Via: SmartHouse and engadgetHD

Last week, signs of Toshiba’s netbook, the NB100 spread across the web courtesy of Toshiba Mexico. Since there was no official word yet from Toshiba that time, everybody took it as another pre-empted announcement which might likely happen after several more months.

But taking a cue from Dell, Toshiba decided to launched it own netbook now. And so we finally have an official statement coming from Toshiba regarding the NB100.

Like we said before, the NB100 looks sleek and professional to make the netbook in tune with the business/corporate setting.

Anyway we now have the following specs for the Toshiba NB100:

• 8.9-inch LCD display resolution (1024 x 600)
• 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor
• 512MB or 1GB of RAM
• 120GB of HD
• 0.3 megapixel webcam
• Wi-Fi
• USB, VGA, Audio and Ethernet ports.

The Toshiba NB100 will be available next month for a retail price of  around $469.

Via Register Hardware