eXpansys are always quick-to-market with the best and latest deal, and today is no exception:

HTC Hero with £30 worth of eXpansys vouchers
Now only £399.99

Buy the Android-powered HTC Hero from eXpansys and we’ll give you £30 of eXpansys vouchers to spend on accessories. Why not use them to get yourself a HTC Car Charger or a HTC International Travel Charger so you have power wherever you are? Follow this link for full terms and conditions.

The HTC Hero is the world’s first Android-based phone with a customised user interface. With HTC Sense technology, the HTC Hero is focused on putting people in the centre, by making your phone work in a more simple and natural way. The 3.2-inch HVGA display is optimised for Web, multimedia and other content while maintaining a small size and weight that fits comfortably in your hand. It boasts an in-built GPS receiver, digital compass, gravity-sensor, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, a 5 mega-pixel autofocus camera and a microSD memory slot.

You can place your order for the HTC Hero today!

Cellular News is reporting that Carphone Warehouse has had a big jump in full-year profit from £73 million last year to £550 million this year - this being due to a big gain from the sale of its retail business.

The company is now in two parts, with the fixed-line telephony and ISP (TalkTalk) being one bit, and the retail arm (called Best Buy Europe) being the other.

Well it’s both impressive, and I suppose also not indicative of regular profits - the fact that CW had that much value in it’s retail arm does give some indication as to the good business they’ve been doing. Certainly I have found them to be one of the better shops in the high street.

[Via: Cellular News]

Those of you that are not enamoured with the iPhone or Pre might be pleased to know that e-tailers are looking after your Nokia (NYSE: NOK) needs with the N97 and some good deals!

eXpansys is one of those companies, and are currently offering the N97 for £499.99 - but with £30 of vouchers in there, for you to spend on what you like in the rest of their store:

Buy the Nokia N97 from eXpansys and we’ll give you £30 of eXpansys vouchers to spend on accessories so you can make the most out of your new phone. Why not use them to get yourself a car charger or a spare battery so you never run out of power? Follow this link for full terms and conditions.

Running Series 60 5th Edition, the Nokia N97 Smartphone makes connecting more personal with the touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard. Take top-quality 5 megapixel photos and watch widescreen videos on the large screen or download the latest games and widgets online.

So there you go - you in the UK? Want Nokia? Now you’ve got (another) good reason to get one!

Yep, so another round of Friday deals hits the table from eXpansys, and as usual, some crackers:

And now for the links:

Sony Ericsson W995

Nokia E75 Red

HTC Snap

Archos 705

Samsung Tocco

LG KF750

Head on over to eXpansys if you want some bargain loveliness - personally I am liking the look of the screen on the Archos - niiiiiice!

[Just to re-iterate, these deals are only available between 11am and 4pm, on June 12th 2009]

In another eXpansys-related mail, I just wanted to quickly highlight a cracking deal they have on the BenQ E72 Windows Mobile smartphone - now we are not talking cutting edge here, but what we are talking is a capable device, running an O/S that lets the mobile device connect very nicely with your PC. If you are on a budget and still require smartphone features, this could be the device for you:

This is the eXpansys Deal of the Week, so best shuffle your browser over to the site before the deal ends! Oh, and one very important point - the price! All you are going to pay is £84.99 for the duration that the offer is on! Bargain!

Yep, eXpansys have got their Windows smartphone procurement heads on, and are bringing us a lurvely selection of new devices - check these out:

ASUS P320 Windows Smartphone with FREE Car Kit and Leather Case Special Price £182.99 Running Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows® Mobile 6.1™ Professional, the ASUS P320 smartphone is packed full off features such as GPS navigation; EDGE/GPRS and WiFi for Internet access from anywhere; Bluetooth, USB and much more. For extra piece of mind, ASUS offer a 24 month collect and return warranty. Follow this link to buy today, or follow this link to get the ASUS P320 FREE with a 12 month T-mobile (NYSE: DT) Web N Walk package.

Acer F900 HD Windows Smartphone with FREE Car Charger and Leather Case Special Price £399.99 Tempted to buy the HTC Touch HD? You could save money by opting for the Acer Tempo F900 HDinstead. Browsing the web and viewing email anytime, anywhere couldn’t be easier thanks to its stylish large 3.8” 800 X 480 WVGA touch screen, HSDPA/WiFi connectivity, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM. An in-built GPS receiver is also included. Follow this link to buy today, or follow this link to get the Acer Tempo F900 HD FREE with a 18 month T-mobile Web N Walk package.

Acer M900 Windows Smartphone with FREE Car Charger and Leather Case Special Price £459.99 Tempted to buy the HTC Touch Pro2? You could save money by opting for the Acer Tempo M900instead. It features a large 3.8” WVGA touch screen, HSDPA/WiFi connectivity, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM. It also features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, an in-built GPS receiver and a fingerprint reader for extra security. Follow this link to buy today, or follow this link to get the Acer Tempo M900 HD FREE with a 18 month T-mobile Web N Walk package. Follow this link to see our range of Smartphones.

Personally I like the look of that Acer HD devices - huge screen and great spec!

Follow the links above if you want to jump over to eXpansys and collect one of these excellent devices!

One site I do like to frequent for tech-goodness is AMP3 - or Advanced MP3 Players, to you and me! AMP3 have some great kit on board, and it’s very music-centric - just my cup of tea!

I happened across the iRiver P7 just browsing on the site, and it is NICE - check out the pic above. Sometimes I think we might forget that certain gadgets can excel at one thing to such an extent that they deserve to be standalone devices - case in point: the P7!

AMP3 have a nice summary:

The bare facts are that this is a 4.3” touchscreen media player, with great video support and Flash based memory (up to 16GB).  It features the important flexibility of additional memory expansion, via microSD.  iRiver fulfil expectations with a wide range of functionality and features, but this isn’t the main talking point of the player.

The really unique feature is the User Interface – iRiver call this Magazine UI.  It makes the process of navigating and using the player much more familiar to more people, by arranging items in a Magazine layout – big panel icons and thumbnail images with useful information arranged around the screen in a really simple and attractive way.

This obviously makes full use of the fact that the 4.3” screen is all touch enabled, allowing infinite variation in the control layout – making each function of the player as straightforward to use as possible.

And on the specs front:

• Video formats: AVI, MP4, DAT, MPG, WMV, RM/RMVB, 3GP,K3G, FLV
• Great Resolution at 480×272 pixels
• Simple movie transfer – just drag and drop
• Audio formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC
• FM Radio
• Picture Viewer, including a slideshow function
• FM Radio Recorder (in WMV)
• Voice Recording (in WMV)
• Text Viewer
• Built-in Speaker
• Memory Expansion

Overall then, a REALLY nice bit of kit - and coming in at £179.00, it’s (I think) a very reasonable price too!

If you want to purchase one of these bad boys, check out AMP3 here.

As I have already reported, Hannah Montana (the hit Disney Channel Original series) which has been viewed in more than 23 million homes across Europe is coming to mobile phones - to coincide with the recent launch of the blockbuster movie, Hannah Montana: The Movie (on May 1st 2009).

In addition to this, Sainsbury’s (one of the top supermarket chains in the UK) is distributing a series of gift cards throughout 600 stores in the UK for £5.99. Customers receiving the gift card will be able to go online to download feature games, screensavers and ringtones.

“Hannah Montana is a worldwide phenomena with a passionate fan base for whom mobile phones play a big part in their life. Bringing the mobile content to retail in a tangible product is a great way for the consumer to find the content they are looking for whether they are buying for themselves or as a gift for a fan.” said Sunil Gunderia, vice president, head of mobile for Disney Interactive Studios, Europe. “The Hannah Montana bundle pack is fantastic value offering fun games and the ability to personalize your phone all at one great price.”

Yvonne West, Manager of Gift Cards at Sainsbury’s added: “We are delighted to be the exclusive retailer of Hannah Montana mobile gift cards. We are confident that the combination of an on shelf product and the mass market appeal of Hannah Montana is an important step forward for mobile content distribution and retail will play a key part in this sector going forward”

This kind of multi-medium marketing, linking a number of verticals, is where we can expect to see Mobile advertising and online/offline retail going - in my view, a very good example of how things can work when all the thinking for a given proposition is ‘joined up’.

If you want to read more about Disney Interactive Studios, you can go here.

Normally with great deals that eXpansys let me know about, I stick to pure Mobile devices - but this one is so good, that if you are in the UK, you might seriously want to consider this as a piece of convergence kit for your home. You might well have captured images and video from your mobile device and dropped them to a USB stick, so there’s still a clear link - in fact, you might even have one of those snazzy USB drives that can take an SD card or other mobile storage variant.

Even better is the price - want 1080i HD for £57.99? Done! Tech specs below:

If you like the look of this, click here to buy from eXpansys!

Yep, it’s the regular Friday deals from eXpansys, that top online accessories retailer. This week we’ve got a nice mix including accessories and devices:

To select one of these very nice bits ‘o’ kit at an even nicer price, click on the relevant link below:

TomTom GPS Bluetooth

Aliph Jawbone

Toshiba Portege G910

MWc Zinc II

Acer DX900

HTC Touch Pro2

Please do bear in mind the following terms and conditions: