Acer will be launching the new A150 with a 6 cell battery (rated for 6hours use) and comes in black.

The Aspire One A150 has three USB 2.0 ports, VGA output, audio in/out and dual memory card readers. It also has WiFi a/b/g and wired ethernet, and weighs 1.26kg with the new 6 cell battery.

The expected price at launch will be €399 ($498)

Picture source: unten44

The rest of the specification is the same as the other A150 models; a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM and 160GB hard-drive. 

Existing Aspire One users can by the 6 cell battery now from Amazon for £50.
Extended Battery for ACER Aspire One White ZG5 UM08A73 6600mAh

Tesco UK are doing Acer Aspire One A110L White N270 512MB 8GB 8.9″ Net Book for £179 !
Cheapest in the UK.

Plus there is a £9 discount voucher - code XXNF4N making it £170 !

ThinkFree, a company that specializes in “next-gen” office productivity solutions, announced Tuesday that it has launched its ThinkFree Netbook solution, which will deliver word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications for Netbooks running Intel’s Atom chipsets, like the Asus Eee PC or the Acer Aspire One.

ThinkFree’s Netbook Edition is available for Windows XP, Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X and will work fine on 800×480 and 1,024×600 displays. A free trial copy of the software can be downloaded now on the company’s site.

Amazon marketplace seller is stocking the extended Battery for ACER Aspire One White ZG5 UM08A73 6600mAh - this battery will last run for 5hrs~

£49.98
Extended Battery for ACER Aspire One White ZG5 UM08A73 6600mAh

Jacky’s Electronics, the UAE’s number one multi-brand electronics retailer, has given away 33 Acer Aspire One Netbooks during the first day of Gitex Shopper and Consumer Electronics Show 2008.

The only retailer present in all three halls of Airport Expo Dubai, Jacky’s Electronics’ shoppers will take home one of three Acer Aspire One Netbooks every hour in the remaining days of Gitex Shopper. Additionally, 11 Acer Ferrari notebooks will be given away to lucky customers across all Jacky’s Electronic’s outlets until 24 October 2008.

Further reading here

Buy.com USA are doing the Acer Aspire One for $309 including delivery plus there is a special $10 discount here, making it $299; the cheapest place you can buy one of these netbooks for.

Acer Aspire One AOA110-1955 Notebook PC - Intel Atom Processor N270 1.60GHz, 802.11b/g Wireless, 512MB DDR2, 8GB SSD, 8.9″ WSVGA, Integrated Webcam, Linpus Linux Lite (Seashell White)

They also have the 160GB hard drive model for $325.99 minus $10 (same voucher as above)

macles.blogspot.com reports that there is a new BIOS out, and seems stable, reports on our forum state that the VGA BIOS gets updated plus extended battery life.

Download from Acer or directly from our downloads page.

You need to boot into DOS to flash the bios, you can do this by using a usb pen drive and the HP USB boot program and Windows 98 boot files (i have made one single download) you will find it the downloads section “under the bios page”

Remember flashing the BIOS incorrectly can prevent your computer from booting, so any questions ask in our forums first.

atheros (brand of the WiFi card used in the aspire one) has released a new wireless driver.
Its on the sites download page now
It does seem to run online streaming videos a little better with this new driver.

*note this driver was orginally found by running an automatic windows update through Windows XP, its not on the Acer website yet.

Windows XP
WLAN_atheros_ar5xxx_760260_xp.zip

Netbook sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) have literally exploded in the third quarter of 2008, making Acer the top ranking PC vendor for the first time ever, while propelling Asus up the ladder into fourth place. IDC figures show that growth in notebooks overall has been strong, but the take-up of netbooks has been staggering.

According to IDC, sales of netbooks (mini-notebooks) were largely responsible for Acer’s breath-taking rise to top spot, which saw the Taiwanese vendor almost double its number of units shipped compared to 3Q07. While sales of its desktop and traditional notbook products were strong, IDC pointed to Acer’s massive push of Aspire One netbook as contributing to its soaring volume.

Likewise, the phenomenal success of Asus Eee PC range, was singled out as the catalyst driving the vendor, which like Acer is based in Taiwan, into the ranks of elite players in the PC space. Asus grew its units by a massive 156% compared to Q307, shipping more than 2 million units for the quarter.

Source: www.itwire.com

The WiMAX Aspire One managed speedtest.net results of 6.7 Mbps on the downlink and 2.8 Mbps on the uplink; it also loaded the NY Times homepage in 15 seconds and played smooth streaming video from Hulu in full-screen.  Check out the Laptop Mag link for the video demo of the WiMAX netbook in action. 

As for market availability, our contacts at Acer passed us this European press release for the netbook which confirms that not only integrated 3G but integrated WiMAX are upcoming options.  While the release specifies the Euro/Asian spec 2100MHz HSDPA band, we’re told a 3G version suited to the US is certainly on the cards. 

Further reading @ www.slashgear.com