free

Yes, it's available for free, but only in Netherlands... Dutch cellular operator KPN offers the handset at no charge along with a two-year contract and a €36.25 (about $54) worth monthly plan. Nice! Even for €26.75 a month you'll still pay €99.95 ($148) for the phone, which is just too cheap for the likes of Bold! How do you like that?

Rhapsody has opened a DRM-free MP3 store. Each track costs $.99, while an album will cost you $9.99. All songs are encoded in 256kpbs CBR.

Users can preview 25 full-length tracks a month from the standard 5 million song catalog. But that's not all, the first 100,000 subscribers to sign-up before July 4th will receive a $10 credit, which can then be spent on a full album of your choice.

Alltel announced a partnership with Boingo to bring Boingo Hotspot Access to its subscribers. Now for just $69.98 a month, Alltel customers will get unlimited data plus unlimited Boingo Hotspot browsing by subscribing to the latest Internet Anywhere Bundle. What are you waiting for? :)

You have a chance to get a brand new BlackBerry Curve for FREE!

RIM is be giving away 5 free BlackBerry Curve handsets - "2 Limited Edition Pinstack Curves and 3 Limited Edition BlackBerryHomePage Curves, complete with Certificate of Authenticities and custom cases!"

For more details and to enter the competition, just go to http://blackberryhomepage.

Thanks to wirefly.com, new Sprint subscribers who sign a 2-year contract can now get an Onyx Black Palm Centro absolutely free.

That means no shipping charges, no rebates to deal with, no minimum plan requirements, simply free.

We know Palm Centro is far not the best smartphone available; still it's a nice handset to get when you don't have to pay for it.

Palm offers a free Zire Z22 PDA to anyone who buys their Palm TX, which costs $299.

The offer is valid until the end of February.

The Z22 can be used as a gift or a backup in case something happens to the TX...

Anyway, you decide what to do with it.

With iPhoneSimFree it takes just 5 minutes to unlock the iPhone and get it to work with any GSM carrier you want.

Just install the application and run it through the icon in the main menu. Once started, it will connect to a server via Wi-Fi and unlock the device. To avoid any problems during the process, make sure the handset's battery is fully charged and don’t forget to turn off the auto-lock option.

During the month of August all iPhone users will be able to enjoy free wireless Internet access in 13 North American airports. This is a limited-time offer from Boingo Wireless, a global Wi-Fi Internet provider, owning the largest Wi-Fi network in the world, which comprises more than 100,000 hotspots in airports, hotels, cafes and other public places.

A new web-based version of PopCap's game Bejeweled is now available for free or all iPhone users. To play the game just log on to http://www.popcap.com via the iPhone's Safari Web browser.

This iPhone-specific version takes advantage of Web 2.0 capabilities of Safari and wireless capabilities of the iPhone, and makes a good use of the handset's touch-screen and input controls.

Last month Apple officials promised to give away free iPhones to all their employees. And it looks like they've kept their word. According to the latest reports, the company's retailers are the first lucky bastards :) to get the free handsets.

How generous of Apple!