Posted by: Jane Douglas

Phones, phones, phones
Two newly unveiled phones come top of the gadget news heap this week:

LG’s GD510 Pop, a three-inch touchscreen available on pay as you go for under £100, and the Xperia X10, Sony Ericsson’s first phone to run Google’s mobile OS, Android.

I’ve also just had the colossal HTC HD2 (pictured, with an iPhone on the left for scale) land on my desk. It’s the first Windows phone to feature a capacitive touchscreen, and it’s a big, crisp-looking one at that: 480 by 800 pixels, 4.1 inches across.

Compared to the resistive screen on the similarly sized 4.1-inch Toshiba TG01 Windows phone, the HD2’s touch display is a smooth, responsive dream. That’s the very first impression – I’ll be slapping in a SIM, test driving it over the weekend and back with more next week.

American beauties
Also, newly launched US-to-UK shipping service Bundle Box thinks it can save gadget lovers money by letting shoppers register for a free US postal address, then have a package of cheap(er) electronics delivered home via that address in two weeks or so.

We asked them to put together a sample bundle of American bargains and US-exclusive gadgets and they came up with:

Microsoft Zune HD 16GB: $219 (£132)
Microsoft Zune HD 32GB: $289 (£175)
Kindle, 6-inch, US & International Wireless: $259 (£157)
Sony Reader Touch Edition: $299 (£181)
Apple iMac, 27-inch display, 3.06GHz: $1700 (£1028)
Blu-Ray box set, Michael Jackson: This Is It: $28 (£17)

Which would run to a total, with £506 added for the service, import duty and VAT, to £2196 in all. That’s a lot of gadget for the money – albeit for someone who has a couple of grand to spare…

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