Orange will tomorrow offer Brits Asus' newly announced [1] Eee PC 900 16G for... well... nothing at all. Orange will expect however, punters to sign up for a two-year, £25-a-month airtime contract.

That package grants users up to 3GB of data transfers a month and up to 100 text messages sent from the machine.

Orange UK's deal follows similar packages offered elsewhere in the world, including the 50p Eee [2] offered in Japan, and a £78 Small, Cheap Computer [3] deal punted in France.

The Eee 900 16G comes with an 8.9in display and 16GB of solid-state storage. It's based on Intel's 900MHz Celeron M 353 processor and has 1GB of DDR 2 memory.

The deal also bundles a gratis Option Icon 225 USB 3G modem, which supports HSDPA at up to 7.2Mb/s.

The Asus deal goes live on 16 August, through Orange shops and its website.

Related Reviews
Asus Eee PC 900 Linux Edition [4]
Asus Eee PC 901 Linux Edition [5]
Asus Eee PC 4G [6]
MSI Wind Windows XP Edition [7]

Links

1. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/14/eee_line_extended/
2. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/11/cut_price_eee_japan/
3. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/27/france_cutprice_scc/
4. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/25/review_asus_eee_900/
5. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/17/review_eee_pc_901/
6. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/review_asus_eee_pc/
7. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/20/review_msi_wind/

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