Kindle 3G with Special Offers slices off $25 in return for ads

With Amazon’s Kindle with Special Offers already being the best-selling model in the company’s ereader range – despite having only hit virtual shelves in late April – it’s little surprise that the retailer has rolled out a second version. After the WiFi-only original (with its $114 price tag) there’s now a Kindle 3G with Special Offers, undercutting the regular 3G model by $25 at $164.

As with the WiFi-only version, the new Kindle 3G with Special Offers shows adverts along the bottom of the homescreen as well as sponsored screensavers when the ereader is in standby mode. They’re not inserted into ebooks, however, and Amazon allows readers to set their preferences as to what style of screensavers they’d like to see more of.

$25 is only a few ebooks-worth of savings, but in the race to making ereaders as cheap as possible – and given the 3G version still comes with a subscription-free wireless connection – it’s good to see Amazon carve away at the Kindle’s price tag. The Kindle 3G with Special Offers is available in the US now.

[Thanks Paul!]

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HP TouchSmart 610 offers a second crack, this time with Sandy Bridge CPU options

HP may have announced their 610 TouchSmart all in one only a shade too soon so that it is supplied with 2011-core processors, but this does not mean that the company was above push an update only a few months later. Now, this 23-inch beast is available with a variety of quad-core core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge CPU. In short, what makes it special to the 610 is its rigid hinge, allowing the 1080p display to fall so that is face up and almost flat at an angle of 60 degrees - a position more ergonomic to put ' round the TouchSmart software while he is standing. Like virtually every other HP equipment on the market, comes as standard with Audio from beats and, depending on how much money it is prepared to bomb, you can cheat with up to 16 GB of RAM, 2 TB of storage of informacióny their choice of NVIDIA or ATI graphics with up to 2 GB of video memory. Models of Sandy Bridge is available now starting at $1,100, although as always, you can get a configuration of entry level with guts of AMD's quad-core for $900 and up.

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