This is a handy, and tiny, GPS tracker. It can be used to track your movements – ideal for joggers, walker and hikers. It’s also a handy tool for photographers, as it can be used to geo-tag your photos. It’s also top for use as a travel tool – tracking where you’ve been on a map, and shared with family and friends back home.

Water resistant, capable of logging 262,000 locations and with a motion-detector to save power, the i-gotU GT-600 is a powerful pocket tool. Charges via USB, overlays your route onto Google or Bing Maps, with upload to Flikr, Facebook, Picassa and Twitter.

To find out more about the i-gotU GPS trackers, see our review at www.filesaveas.com/igotu_gt600.html

See our review here: Novatel MiFi 2352 UK Review

It makes such a change for us to read through the spec sheet for a new phone, and raise a smile – this new phone, from the sports folk at Puma, promises to be a little different.

Aimed at us healthy folk, the PUMAPHONE is a keep-fit phone with an analogue stopwatch, GPS running tracker, a GPS bike speedometer, a walking pedometer and a yachting compass (of course).

Next we found one of those “why didn’t I think of that” features – the back of the phone has an integral solar cell, to allow charging from the sun.

There are also some fun apps too – including on-demand digital cat (no, we were confused too) as well as a sarcastic calculator – expect to be told off if you try “1+2=”. There’s also a scratching DJ turntable to allow you to play with your music collection.

A stylish-looking red user interface and a large dollop of quirkiness could just make this phone a hit.

The PUMAPHONE, made by Sagem, should be available in the UK from April 2010. No news on price, but Puma, if you’re reading… please let us review this for you!

Tests were completed in 150 locations in the UK at peak periods over 60 days. Cities covered included London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield.

Bottom of the heap for download speeds was Orange and worst performer for web pages was 3. As well as o2, Vodafone showed itself to be a solid Mobile Internet provider in these tests.

See the report in full, or find out more about Mobile Broadband in the UK

3 are offering each household two free SIM cards with free Skype-to-Skype calls and free Windows Live messenger chats. You don’t even need to top up the SIM to get these benefits.

If you do top up your SIM, you also get free text messages, free Internet access, free calls to other 3 mobile phones and free voicemail.

Want your free SIM cards? Get them today while this offer lasts: 3 SIM card offer

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• Screen: 9.7inch multitouch
• Battery: 10 hours
• Price: $499 for the 16GB version (appox £310).
• Availability: 60 days for wi-fi version in the US – longer for 3G. “International” expected June/July 2010
• Dataplans: 250Meg a month on AT&T or $29.99 for unlimited data (AT&T)
• Extras: iBooks eBook reader and store, iWorks (presentations, Word and Excel), plus a keyboard docking station for your desk

Navigation same as iPod Touch / iPhone

Sadly, no announcement of iPhone 4.0 OS.

Who should be worried: Netbook manufacturers, Sony (eBook Reader) and Amazon (Kindle).

It’ll be several months before this hits the UK. If UK iPad were to be priced as per US AT&T offering, the basic Apple iPad would be £310 on a £9.30 a month contract. No chance of us here in the UK getting such a good deal for this, of course.

BT Infinity is BT’s fibre optic broadband service and offers customers speeds of up to 40 Meg (for downloads) and 10 Meg for uploads.

Prices: £19.99 (20 Gig a month download) or £24.99 (unlimited download)

Installation: Free installation. An engineer will need to call to hook you up to the fibre optic network. You’ll be provided with a BT Infinity Home Hub and a vDSL modem fibre optic modem

By the end of this year 4 million homes and businesses will be able to access the service

BT customers have been trialling the service in Muswell Hill, Whitchurch and Glasgow Halfway, but from today the service is being rolled out across the UK as the network is upgraded. BT estimates that up to 4 million homes and businesses will be able to benefit by December 2010.

To check if you’re able to get speeds of up to 40 Mbps, put your phone number and postcode into the BT Infinity Availability checker.

Vodafone launched this last year, and are the only UK network to offer such a solution. This month, Vodafone has relaunched the product with a new name, Sure Signal, and a new pricing structure – A one-off £50 to those spending over £25 a month with Voda.

Guy Laurence, the Vodafone UK Chief Exec had this to say: “No other network in the UK can ensure a great mobile phone signal in the home, because the Sure Signal is unique to Vodafone. Customers tell us it is life changing. If they live or work in a basement for example, the only way they may be able to get consistent mobile coverage could be with a Vodafone Sure Signal.”

For a quick overview on how these work, see the following videoclip from Vodafone:

More details on our Mobile Phone Signal Boosters page or at vodafone.co.uk/suresignal.

This is a small but impressive micro (a.k.a. nettop) PC that sits quietly on a desk or in a lounge behaving just like a larger PC – top selling points are the size, ergonomics, quietness and low price point.

If you’re considering getting a second PC – perhaps to run auxiliary tasks in your home office, or as a lounge-based PC media centre, then this could be for you. With 6 USB sockets, an HDMI port for connection to a high definition TV, and a version of Microsoft’s new Windows 7 Home Premium, this is a tasty bit of kit that we’ve enjoyed reviewing.

The Packard Bell imax mini is available now from PC World – and you can see our review with pictures now at www.filesaveas.com/imaxmini.html

This follows last year’s acquision of Tiscali by the Carphone Warehouse.

Current Tiscali customers that only use Broadband will find that their monthly bill will rise from £14.99 a month to £19.99 a month, unless they start using TalkTalk’s home phone service too. TalkTalk are also keen to lock you into an 18 month contract.

If you’re with Tiscali, you might want to start considering some of the cheaper alternatives to get a better deal.

Plusnet is offering three months free broadband to Tiscali customers who switch between now and the 31st of January 2010. To take advantage of this offer, go to Plusnet Tiscali Switch and use the special promotion code tiscalisave on the payment details screen.

Alternatively, there’s BE Broadband’s basic service for £7.50 a month. Details: Be Broadband

If you’re not familiar with energy meters, they connect (safely) to your electricity meter, and provide you with real-time information, in pounds and pence, on how much energy you’re consuming. A great way to educate you on how to save power, keep your bills down, and do your bit for the planet. More on power meters.

This is an exclusive online deal only, and will only run for a limited time. Details can be found at the npower Energy Monitor Offer page.

In this new show, we look at wireless hotspots, a new desktop companion and a magic wand. We also run down the latest digital TV and technology headlines and answer your emails, texts and podline calls.

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RedLaser is an iPhone app that scans a product’s barcode, performs a lookup online, and gives you a price comparison. It quickly climbed to the top of the iPhone paid app charts and was an incredibly useful app. Our tech podcast team even rated this as one of the top must-have iPhone apps (see the transcript)

Occipital, producers of the top-rated RedLaser barcode scanning software have replaced the Amazon and Google search engines with the find.com product search engine. It’s not clear whether they’ve done this for legal or financial reasons, but the practical upshot, at least for us in the UK, is that this formerly excellent app has been killed by the switch to find.com in the v2.5 release of RedLaser.

Here’s a ‘before’ and ‘after’ screenshot:

RedLaser – Before

RedLaser – After

From 24 matches, to just one.

We’re also now seeing prices popping up in dollars instead of pounds:

The advice is – don’t upgrade! If you have upgraded, you may be able to roll back to v2.2, but only if you installed the upgrade direct onto your iPhone and not via iTunes. To roll back, uninstall RedLaser from your iPhone, then perform a sync with iTunes. While conected to iTunes, go to Devices, select your iPhone, go into Applications, tick RedLaser and Sync your applications. The backed-up application will then be restored to you iPhone – You” then have to remember not to install the update until the developers release a working application.

Affected? Disappointed? Add a comment below, review RedLaser on iTunes or contact Occipital

Here’s hoping Occipital bow to pressure and the negative iTunes reviews they’re getting, and restore this app to its former glory.

Two of our team have received the following text message today from Sky:

“We regret to say our Sky App will no longer work from 29 Nov. If you have Mob TV you can still watch via VF Live. For our latest Mob services visit sky.com”

The Sky mobile application was available for a number of handsets, most commonly the Nokia Series 60 range, and allowed users to view news and sports content, watch some of Sky’s shows from their mobile and ‘remote record’ programmes on their Sky+ recorders on the move.

From what we’ve seen on the Sky website, it looks like Sky TV applications for the Apple iPhone, available from the App Store, continue to be offered.

Update: From reading online discussions, it seems there’s some confusion due to the way Sky’s message has been worded. Will the entire app be terminated, or is it just the live TV component of the application that will end. Some are wondering if the Remote Record facility will be removed altogether, which seems unlikely.

We’ll update this post if we get any news.

The premise is simple – pick a gadget, add a personalised message, pay a few quid, and someone, somewhere in the world will get your gift. In return, you’ll get a gift and a message back.

No, it’s not some dodgy pyramid scheme – it’s a genuine world record attempt, and you’ll get a mystery gadget. Interested? FileSaveAs.com is taking part… why don’t you?

For full details, and to send your Secret Santa, slide over to the Firebox Secret Santa site.

• Updated maps (v8.3 to v8.5), POI, cameras and IQ Routes
• Text-to-speech road name announcements
• Added Advanced Lane Guidance
• Customisable audio warnings for cameras / speed limits

We’ve seen reports that come users are seeing crashes after upgrading to this version – the official advice for those hit by this are to delete the application from your iPhone, then re-install from iTunes.

We have a review of the TomTom iPhone app, plus our ‘best buy’, the CoPilot app, on our iPhone SatNav Review page.

To add the channel, go to the Shopping channel on your Wii, and look for the BBC iPlayer channel. It’s free, and lets you access BBC TV and radio shows from the last seven days, streamed over your Broadband connection.

BBC iPlayer on the Wii

Previously on sale for £149.99, it’s now just below the £100 mark, and at that price, it’s well worth a look. If you’re not that familiar with a Joggler, it’s a wi-fi enabled device that is a cross between a digital photo frame, media player, family diary, digital radio and a news/sport/weather/travel update service.

Dropping below the £100 price bracket for this device is a smart move from o2, especially in the run-up to Christmas. Seems it’s only at this price until 31st December 2009.

Details on the o2 Joggler site, or on our Joggler Reviewed section.

You’ll be able to download BBC iPlayer as a dedicated channel, available from the Nintendo shop. The channel will be free.

It’s been possible to watch the on-demand content via the Opera web browser, but the quality wasn’t great. The new dedicated iPlayer channel should offer a higher-quality viewing experience, and adds to the ways that you can watch BBC’s on demand content. More on BBC iPlayer