Top 5 Christmas Gifts For The Techies

It’s quite a difficult task to find perfect gifts for your beloved ones. Yet for many of us it has become like a ritual to make a wish list and surprise our near and dear ones with the best gifts on Christmas every year.

With Christmas around the corner, let’s find out some unique Christmas gifts ideas for the tech savvy people of this generation. Here I recommend a list of best selling devices and gizmos in the UK. It'll help you to bring smile on their faces.

Few Best Selling Gadgets of 2010

The gadget retailers who mostly sell mobile phones and iPhone as Christmas gifts are also selling iPad, digital camera, e-book readers, and MP3 players etc. on demand as Christmas gifts this year.

• Apple iPad

Let’s begin with one of the greatest inventions of the decade, the Apple iPad. This popular device from the House of Cupertino features LED-backlit touchscreen with 9.7 inch display for web browsing and watching video. It also offers the iBooks app with e-Reader functionality and thousands of games and practical applications. Available on Orange, 3 and T-Mobile, the price of iPad starts from £27 per month with a one-off charge of £199. A perfect gift for people for whom, luxuries make the best present.

• Amazon Kindle

The e-Book reader from Amazon comes with e-ink screen technology for which the text on the screen looks exactly like the text on real paper which can be read even in the bright day light.

With a capacity to store up to 3,500 books, the e-Book reader has a built in Kindle e-book store. Some other features include internet browsing, free web browsing from overseas, read PDF files and a long battery back up. Students can use it as electronic textbooks as well as a perfect gift for book worms.

• HTC Wildfire

An ideal gift for a person who loves to socialise and for whom a phone means a lot more than just calling and texting. This Android based touchscreen smartphone offers a 5-megapixel camera, Facebook integration, free turn-by-turn GPS navigation and access to more than 100000 apps from Android store. Available SIM-free at £160 on Vodafone and £190 on 3UK, the phone with HTC Sense user interface is a fun to use.

• Apple iPod Touch

This personal music player with a capacity to store 1,750 songs is high on demand this year and therefore should be recommended as a perfect choice for the music lovers. It is basically an iPhone without a phone that features several useful functionalities like WiFi connectivity for web browsing, sending e-mail and downloading the complete range of applications from Apple’s “app store”. Its latest version includes features like FaceTime video calling and Apple’s Retina display.

• A.R Drone R/C helicopter

The A.R Drone R/C helicopter will make an exciting Christmas gift this year. Much better than those underpowered mini radio control choppers, this gadget can be fully controlled with your iPhone. It has a camera mode to view what the pilot would see and also offers some augmented reality games.

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