Life & Technology

I am amazed by all the value in the stores right now for anyone in the market for a new mobile phone, looking to change plans or looking to give a mobile phone gift this Christmas. This morning on Today, Karl and looked at some of the options out there for you.

Samsung Omnia – Smart Phone – RRP $849

Touch screens and intuitive interfaces
Windows Mobile 6.1 interface that syncs easily with your PC
5 Megapixel camera
32 GB of memory stores over 8000 songs, or 23 DVD quality movies, or 12,000 5 full res pictures
Blu tooth modem for your laptop
DLNA built in

Vodafone Internet Cap Plan $69

Pay just $69 for 24 months and get:
A massive $340 credit + 250 MB of included data a month to use on talk, data TXT, PXT and more.

Receive a bonus of Unlimited Free Weekends- calls to any Vodafone mobile within Australia from Friday midnight to Sunday midnight are completely free

Nokia 6210 Navigator – RRP $629
Nokia Stockists – (02) 9429 9000
Features:
– 3G with HSDPA Network
– 3.15 MP Auto focus / Video / Flash Camera
– Hands free Speaker
– SMS / MMS / Email
– 240 x 320 pixels (2.4 inches)
– FM Radio (stereo)
– MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
– Slider Phone
– You can keep your old number
– Office Applications
– A-GPS function
– Digital compass

Yes Optus Cap Plan $49 – Pay just $49 for 24 months and get:
$300 credit for talk, data and text + Yes time

Samsung 3100 – RRP $49
– FM radio with recording feature
– MP3 ringtones
– Speakerphone
– Compact
– User friendly- perfect ‘first mobile phone’
– available as prepaid on the Virgin network
Virgin Post-Paid Free to V Caps
On a $30 pre-paid cap you receive $140 worth of national and international calls, text and photos plus free calls and text to Virgin mobiles
Check your spending on-line

Yes Optus Timeless $119 Plan – 1300 300 937

– Unlimited Standard voice calls to any network within Australia – local, national and GSM mobiles
– Unlimited National Video Calls
– Unlimited Standard National text to any networks
– Unlimited National MMS
– Choose from the Starter or Classic Mobile Internet Packs
– Starter Pack: $4.95 – 25MB Classic Pack: $9.95 – 200MB
– 35c/MB for 12 or 24 month contract customers. 50c/MB for Month to Month
‘yes’ International Call Rates
– Flagfall (per call): 27c
– National: Unlimited
– International:50c/SMS
– National: Unlimited
– International: 75c/MMS
– Deposit: Free
– Retrieval: 30c per 30 seconds

Cam and I chatted this morning on Today about some great online shopping websites to try. Here are my picks below and why I think they are worth a look:

www.dstore.com.au

D-Store is like walking into a shopping mall department store. It has a huge range of the top brands, at great prices. I would shop here if I wanted a specific, brand name product, and I wanted the convenience of online shopping (no car parks, no que’s and I know exactly what I want)

www.dealsdirect.com.au –

Deals Direct is great if you want a product at a bargain price, but are ok not to get the exact model or the exact brand you would prefer. They have daily price offers across a whole range of products, so the idea is check regularly to get a bargain item.

www.shopbot.com.au –

An online site like shopbot amalgamates all the online sellers in one place. The benefit is you get the lowest online price, the negative is that if you are shopping for four different items you could be buying from four different websites, earning extra delivery fee’s etc. You are also likely to not have a relationship with the site, so you need to be extra careful who you are buying from.

This morning on Today we looked at four new gadgets on the market in time for Christmas. Here are the details:

Plantronics Explorer 370 –
– Water and dust resistant
– Innovative filter that blocks the wind, but not your voice
– Connects to Bluetooth phones
Loads of people are wearing ear pieces for their mobile phone so they can drive and chat on the phone at the same time. This device let’s you do that but because it is water proof, dirt proof and Shock proof you can immerse it in water, throw it in the dirt and drop it on concrete.

RRP – $89
Available at Harvey Norman

Life! iPhone Charging Case –
Read blogs about iPhone and many say that more battery life would be a bonus. They can also be damaged by dropping (as can most gadgets).
This device is a leather case that has a built in battery charger. You plug the case into the power point, then when you are out and about and your iPhone runs out of batteries, you push the ‘on-button’ on the charger and power it up again.

RRP $79
Available 1st December in Crazy John stores
Officeworks and Telechoice by 12/12.

Twin Sim Phone

Very simple solution from Anycool – one phone, with two sim cards in it.
Standard phones contain a single transceiver, while the TWIN SIM has two, allowing both SIMs to be active at the same time our phone has signal strength for two networks, you have two phone numbers, and calls can be received on either number

RRP from $400
1300 78 11 50 (7am east – 10pm west)
www.twinsim.com.au
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