Gadgets
Our resident gadget expert Camilla Chafer gets her hands on five hot products and rates their must-have credentials 1 Hitachi LCD TV If you don’t like being restricted in where you place your TV, the Hitachi Ultra Thin 32” LCD flatscreen with multimedia box is a good choice. Link everything from DVD player to satellite box to [...]
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Our resident gadget expert Camilla Chafer gets her hands on five hot products and rates their must-have credentials |
1 Hitachi LCD TV
If you don’t like being restricted in where you place your TV, the Hitachi Ultra Thin 32” LCD flatscreen with multimedia box is a good choice. Link everything from
DVD player to satellite box to the multimedia box and it uses just one cable to connect them all to the TV. Around £800.
www.hitachidigitalmedia.com
2 BlackBerry Storm
We shouldn’t really be surprised that BlackBerry now has a touchscreen model available. The Storm smartphone still operates on the same principles – it’s a good
email device but now with a virtual keyboard. The screen at 3¼” is now larger than other BlackBerry handsets – good for browsing the internet. Price
dependent on contract.www.vodafone.com/storm
3 GE Camera E1050TW
Digital cameras are better than ever but you still won’t need the 10.1 megapixels that this GE E1050TW boasts – anything above 3MP will give you an average
6”x4” print. That said, it’s great to look at with a colourful body, all-glass lens with 5x optical zoom and a 3” touch screen that takes up most of the back panel.
It also offers high definition recording. Around £150. www.amazon.co.uk
4 T12 Orbitsound
Gadget aficionados’ pulses have been set racing by the glossy piano-black T12 Orbitsound, a super-sleek stereo soundbar. The separate subwoofer does add some
bulk to the overall product but as it can be used up to 2m away it can be hidden from view. Don’t be tempted to view the T12 purely as an iPod dock or the price will
put you off – it is a stereo cinema sound system with a powerful bass speaker and certainly one of the more stylish models around. £349.
www.orbitsound.co.uk
5 PocketSurfer2R
The updated PocketSurfer2R is a neat internet and email device that is slim enough to fit unobtrusively into a bag. The flip-open device has a backlit thumb-pad style
keyboard and colour screen. The biggest advantage is this device relies on an embedded SIM and GPRS modem so it can be used anywhere – a bonus if you
can’t find a WiFihotspot. It can now be used in Europe and the US with a pre-paid roaming package of 600 minutes that lasts for 12months.
www.datawind.com
