Spanish phone maker BQ has unveiled one of the first Android One phones designed to be sold in developed nations. The BQ Aquaris A4.5 is a €170 smartphone that will be available soon in Spain and Portugal. The Android One initiative is a Google program to work with phone makers to deliver low-cost phones that offer a […]
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Microsoft offers cheap software for cheap Portuguese netbooks
As I’ve previously mentioned, Portugal is getting into netbooks big time. The country’s government is subsidizing the cost of about half a million computers based on the Intel Classmate PC design and making them available to students for just about 50 Euros or $70. It costs about 285 Euroes of nearly $400 to pick up […]
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Venezula orders 1 million Classmate PCs
While mainstream netbooks like the Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind, and Dell Inspiron Mini continue to capture the imagination (and cash) of consumers, it’s nice to see that low cost laptops are  also fulfilling one of their original purposes, and getting into the hands of children in developing countries. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this weekend announced that […]