What are you planning to give your loved one this Valentine’s Day: chocolates, flowers or soft toys? Be smart this time and pick an excellent techy gift and take advantage of the wide variety of gadgets available in the market.
Today, in my feature I am suggesting some elegant gift ideas instead of those passé sweets and chocolates
Amazon Kindle 2: eBook reader
If your partner is a fond of reading, then an ebook reader is a fine option for you. For instance; Amazon’s Kindle 2 may solve your problem.
This is incredibly thin and lightweight e-book reader that can hold up to 1,500 books in a purse-sized package. Other features include 16-level grayscale display, excellent battery life, faster page refreshing, a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud and overall thickness just 0.36 inches (9.1 mm). The Kindle 2 has 2 GB of internal memory of which 1.4 GB is user-accessible. This ebook reader is worth $259.
Iriver T10: MP3 player
Another gift that goes with your budget very well is Iriver T10, which is stylish and sleek MP3 player with a vivid color display.
Iriver T10 is proved to be a good choice for sporty design, small but bright color screen, FM tuner, voice recorder, OGG, WMA DRM 10 and basic picture support along with amazing battery life, excellent sound quality and overall performance.
Like most Flash-based players, it comes with 512 MB of storage, or you can get the 1 GB. The price is almost Rs. 6,999/- for 512 MB model.
Creative Zen X-Fi MP3 Player
If your partner is a music lover, then a suitable gift could be an MP3 player by Creative.
Exclusive features it embraces are rich audio output enabled via the X-Fi technology, sharp nHD quality picture display via the 2.5 inch TFT screen, wireless connectivity to PC, FM radio with 32 radio station presets, memory card slot for SD/SDHC memory cards and applications like Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger in the pocket sized MP3 player.
This is available in two memory options of 16 GB and 32 GB worth $199.99 and $279.99 respectively.
Apple iPod Nano
Apple has decided to celebrate this festive season with all its customers by having a special Free Signature Gift Wrap, Free Personal Engraving and Free Shipping on its iPod Nano for both 8 GB and 16 GB. You can choose a color of your loved one’s choice from a palette of nine colors available for the product. The 8 GB model is worth $149 and 16 GB is worth $199.
Samsung Corby
People are going crazy for touch phones these days and if you want to go for any such option, then a fine option that fits to your pocket is Samsung Corby.
Some exclusive features of the touch phone are support for the social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, 2 megapixel camera, 40MB of internal memory with MicroSD card support and quad-band GSM connectivity along with a fine music player with FM Radio.
On multimedia front, it comes with FM Radio with RDS. Samsung Corby Mate offers a standby time of upto 324 hours and a talk time of upto 9 hours. Samsung Corby Mate is available in four colors: jamaican yellow, cupid pink, minimal white and festival orange and priced at Rs 7300 approximately.
Nikon COOLPIX P5100 Digital Camera
Here's something for the camera-freaks. Nikon’s COOLPIX P5100 compact digital camera comes with 12.1 megapixel. It possesses a 3.5x optical zoom, 2.5” LCD display, optical viewfinder, external flash and telephoto/wide-angle converter lenses. It retains Nikon’s popular red-eye fix and face priority AF features. The price of the camera is approximately Rs. 24,950.
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