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nice its brand a minimun from pocketnow.com and this is the unboxing of the HP Mini 1151 NR that comes from Verizon Wireless it actually has a built-in EVDO modem with Rev a which means that you can get high-speed Internet access no matter where you are so if you're not near Wi-Fi hotspot if you're in the back of a taxicab you can take out the netbook and use Verizon's high-speed data network now we're gonna test exactly how fast it is on this netbook how fast the download speed is how fast the upload speed is we're also going to compare this device to the red fly c8n which will help to answer the question should you get a red fly or should you just get a netbook right now this is $199 subsidized on Verizon's network if you buy from Amazon or from HP it's gonna be twice as much $400 which actually makes it economical if you were going to buy a netbook anyway and then get a tether dongle from Verizon Wireless for data it makes more sense to go with the subsidized version than to buy it right from the store because you saved $200 so it does make sense in that respect let's take a look at the specifications of the 11:51 and are let me zoom in a little bit it's running the intel atom n270 processor 1.6 gigahertz with Windows XP home although we can't help but wait for Windows 7 to run on netbooks apparently it runs beautifully it's got a 10.1 inch screen it's running on one gigabyte of RAM and 80 gigabytes of storage space so let's take a look inside the box and see what we have Wow very nice set up instructions and kind of talks about turning it on which we know how to do inserting the battery running Windows XP all right and here is the netbook and naturally being a netbook it is very small and we'll take a look at that in a second so what we have in the accessory department compartment here we have that three cell battery we've got a power cord of course and the other side of the power cord and that looks to be it what we got have some more stuff in here actually some software finally some verizon branding some tips and shortcuts on activating the video most likely a cleaning cloth very nice one keep it clean and some some other literature that looks like a blank pad of paper that's interesting we've got a user manual here one of the best things about the HP Mini netbooks is the keyboard they have very spacious keyboards that are super easy to type on it's got a nice design here it's got the the HP swirly pattern I don't know if you can see that nice shiny coat it's quite lightweight because the batteries not in so let's put the battery in and it looks like it snaps in this way there we go and lock it alright let's open it up Wow keyboard goes from side to side no space is wasted it's gonna be kind of weird getting used to the the mouse buttons being off to the left and to the right looks like there's a nice scroll mechanism here and of course you can turn off the the the touchpad if you have an external mouse it's got a nice screen very glossy now you can see me there and webcam built-in very nice so we're gonna follow up with a lot of tests on speed and the battery life and how the whole EVDO integration works then we're gonna take a look at how this device compares with the red fly experience coming up soon so that's pretty much it for the Verizon Wireless netbook never thought a carrier would actually come out with a netbook but look what happened so we'll be back with more soon