I’ve been keeping an eye on DataWind’s UbiSurfer netbooks for the past few years. The company offers cheap mini-laptops in the UK bundled with limited mobile internet service. You pay one fee up front for the netbook and you can also go online for about 30 hours per month for no extra fee. If you need more time, you can…

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The DataWind Ubisurfer is an unusual mini-laptop. The selling point isn’t so much that the Ubisurfer is a cheap, portable computer — it’s that it’s a cheap portable computer that comes with a free mobile internet connection. Customers in the UK can pick one up for just under £160 (about $243) and get up to 30 hours per month of…

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I just got a chance to catch up with the folks at Datawind, and while they’re a bit behind schedule, they do still plan to bring the Ubisurfer netbook to the US. The latest target date is Q2, 2010, (as opposed to October, 2009). If Datawind actually manages to launch the Ubisurfer soon, it could poke a hole in the…

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