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Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook

By | December 7, 2010, 12:33pm PST

Summary: Google is really trying to sweeten the deal for consumers with the promise of free 3G data on Verizon Wireless with each purchase of a Chrome OS netbook.

Google is really trying to sweeten the deal for consumers with the promise of free 3G data on Verizon Wireless with each purchase of a Chrome OS netbook.

According to Engadget, buyers of a Chrome OS netbook will receive 100MB of free 3G Verizon data each month for 24 months.

100MB isn’t exactly a large data allotment, especially considering Google touts Chrome OS as something “for people who live on the web.” Nevertheless, it’s still a cool freebie. And if that’s not enough (which it likely won’t), unlimited plans start at $9.99 per day. (Might be useful for that day you’re stuck in an airport.)

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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
jfreedle2@... 25th Dec 2010
That is the thing to do, bribe people to purchase something that is completely WORTHLESS.
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DOA?
John Zern 7th Dec 2010
It's not even released yet and they're already offering deals like this to entice people to buy one?

DOA?
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Loverock Davidson 7th Dec 2010
@John Zern
Absolutely. Sounds like a bribe. They have to give it away for people to use it, doesn't make a very strong case for using this netbook. I know I won't be using it.
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Alan Henry Updated - 7th Dec 2010
@Loverock Davidson

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

This doesn't sound like a bribe, this is a bribe.
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Alan Henry Updated - 7th Dec 2010
@John Zern

Like the Courier (RIP) that couldn't get out the gate? Only to be followed by Kin, eh?

Please spare us your prognostication.
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What about the courier, CS?
John Zern 7th Dec 2010
I don't remember Verizon offering to give away free 3G with the purchase of one? I don't even remember seeing it go to production, Terence.
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Alan Henry Updated - 7th Dec 2010
@John Zern
What about Kin, did you predict that?
You did see the Kin, right, Yes?

Sour grapes? Is Google sucking all your oxygen?

PS. It's call "neglected perception" when you only see and hear what you want to. Hence you only saw courier in the post and never saw the Kin.
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Come now, Cyberslummer
John Zern Updated - 7th Dec 2010
How many names are you going to spam under? LOL!
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Alan Henry Updated - 7th Dec 2010
@John Zern

I get it. It's considered spam (by your definition) when you don't have a response to a legitimate question.
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Pete "athynz" Athens 8th Dec 2010
@Alan Henry And where were the enticing sales offers for either product BEFORE the product was released to the public? Oh wait, there were none. Yes KIN did indeed fail and yes it is being sold as a feature phone to eliminate stock. And yes Courier was cancelled... But none of that explains why they are offering this type of deal prior to the netbook with Google OS being released to the public.

Can YOU explain this without all the childish insults?
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
alanhenry 9th Dec 2010
@Alan Henry All - someone reached out to me - my name is Alan Henry - at my personal email address to claim that someone named "Loverock Davidson" has been posting using my name and posing as me here at ZDNet. I'm not certain the extent of the damage here, but either this Loverock person is actually named Alan Henry and is NOT me, or this person has another name altogether and is trying to use my identity.

I'm not much of a linux user (although I follow technology news) and wouldn't comment on something out of my depth, but I'm the Alan Henry who owns sites like The Classy Geek, Gears and Widgets, TechTV Forever, and is also a writer for PC Mag and its blogs, as well as Tom's Hardware and Tom's Guide. I assure you this person isn't me, and I'm saddened their behavior may turn people off to my real work. sad

Anyone concerned (especially a moderator if there is one) can contact me at alanhenry@novawerks.net if they have questions. Anyone except this Loverock Davidson person, that is.
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Who'll be the NeXT iSPY assigned to this one I Wonder?
RememberOctober29 Updated - 7th Dec 2010
Now you begin to see why certain "former" cronies from crApple have removed apple from their resumes and are either working for Google, HTC, Nokia etc., or they are planning to.

Interestingly they are from the same groups that isolated certain employees for being "spies" of crApple's super secret basket-weaving "technologies".

Will it be Peter Graffagnino, David Springer or Ralph (Ralf?) Brunner NeXT?
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
DeusXMachina 10th Dec 2010
@RememberOctober29
You get banned i2Fun?
I see it didn't help you grow up.
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I find it strange
Michael Alan Goff 8th Dec 2010
The same people who are rushing the condemn these deals were the ones who were saying that the "buy one get one free" Windows Phone 7 deals meant nothing. I agree with that statement, but I also don't think this means that this is DoA.
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Pete "athynz" Athens 8th Dec 2010
@John Zern I was thinking the same thing - are they really that desperate to sell a Google OS device?
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Jimster480 8th Dec 2010
@John Zern yea this is pretty sad. And 100mb is nothing. You can use that in an hour. Especially on a machine that only browse the web.
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Google's netbooks are overpriced
iPad-awan 7th Dec 2010
so 3g is not really free. It's build into the price of their crappy netbooks. It's only a smoke screen from Google (again). In addition, charging 9.99 per day is a total rip-off.
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Overpriced with no price announced?
Economister 7th Dec 2010
@iPad-awan

OK, whatever you say.
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Pete "athynz" Athens 8th Dec 2010
@iPad-awan How much IS the Google OS based netbook?
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$10/day for data?!
jmiller1978 7th Dec 2010
Who in their right mind would need unlimited data for something that doesn't store stuff locally?
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To watch porn on line? nt
Economister 7th Dec 2010
@jmiller1978

nt
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
jmiller1978 Updated - 7th Dec 2010
@Economister

Shhh! wink
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
Alan Henry Updated - 7th Dec 2010
@Economister

You think any of these guys get paid to "think", eh?

Probably get paid to click only.
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This is not journalism...
jacobus57 7th Dec 2010
...this is basically a free ad. There is no analysis, not critique, no real information.

And @jmiller1978--100 mbs of data is nothing if you are shooting anything of significance back into the ChromeCloud. It sure isn't "free." At 9.99 a day, it would take less than a month to reach the cost of my neat little Asus netbook that I have had for almost a year, which I dual-boot, and out of which I beat the living c***.

I really don't understand what either Google or Verizon are thinking on this one.
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
salvatore.nestor 8th Dec 2010
Same people who said that they should have bouht Google at the IPO! How about waiting to condem it until you at least see one in person and try it.....
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Quit Complaining Already
salvatore.nestor 8th Dec 2010
How about waiting to complain about it until you have at seen one and tried it in person, not virtually....
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
DS-Solutions 8th Dec 2010
That has to be a typo. If I wanted to make this my one and only unit and used it online with 3G for 30 days its would cost me 299.70 for the month - LOL - yeah that cannot be right
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RE: Google, Verizon promise free 3G data with purchase of Chrome OS netbook
jfreedle2@... 25th Dec 2010
That is the thing to do, bribe people to purchase something that is completely WORTHLESS.

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