Mobile
phone operator 3 has added the
Hewlett Packard Compaq CQ60
notebook to the company’s
mobile broadband and
laptop packages. The
laptop PC will replace the HP550 laptop previously offered when customers took out a
broadband deal, with
3 claiming the new
computer ‘offers more in the way of features’ than its predecessor. Amongst the features offered by the 3D Sound Blaster Pro-compatible laptop are an
AMD SI-42, with 2.1GHz processing power, a 5 in 1 card reader, a full size keypad and integrated
webcam, as well as
Windows Vista Home Basic, MS Works and a 60 day
Microsoft Office trial.
3 are
advertising the laptop as free when they sign up to an 18 or 24 month contract costing £35 and £30 a month respectively. The laptop typically retails at around £315, whilst customers will receive a 15GB monthly download allowance on the 24 month contract or a 5GB allowance on the shorter deal. Customers can top up their download allowance for just 10p per download. Both
internet packages offer
broadband speeds of up to 3.6Mb and a free 3 dongle.
The laptop joins the
Compaq HP Mini 700,
Toshiba L350-20G and the
Fujitsu Siemens Li3710 as the notebooks available with 3’s broadband packages.