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ReCharge4: Charge your iPod, phone and PSP anywhere

Crave Here to save us all from a fate worse than powerless iPods is the ReCharge4 from Exspect -- a portable battery that can charge your mobile phone, games console or MP3 player while you're on the move. It'll charge your electronic pride-and-joy up to...

Tags: battery, model, wi fi, charge

23 October 2006, 11:28

Xbox 360 Quick Charge Kit: Look mum, no wires

Crave It's true that the the official 'Play and Charge Kit' solves the problem, but there's nothing worse than being tethered to the console once you've got used to being wireless and free. Help is at hand with the new 'Quick Charge Kit' from Microsoft.

Tags: microsoft, charge, kit, console

20 December 2006, 10:04

KenBuster: Auto Congestion Charge payment nonsense

Crave Meet the KenBuster -- a wireless payment system that automatically pays the congestion charge whenever you enter London's CC zone in your car. You pay a ridiculous £199 for infinite usage, or a £49.99 one-off charge then £8 per month on a 12-month...

Tags: payment, charge, enter, london

21 November 2007, 9:58

Hands-on with iRiver X20: Too large to be in charge?

Crave We've previously had a glance at iRiver's new X20 on paper, but now we've got the fella in our hands and we're trying to decide how we feel about it. This 2GB flash-based MP3 player plays MPEG-4 video along with MP3, WMA and OGG format music.

Tags: iriver, wheel, scroll, mechanical

3 April 2007, 11:09

Photos: Creative InPerson, Zen Stone with speaker, Xdock HD

Crave Creative's booth at CES this year was as large and in-charge as last year, and it held some exciting new products. Considering how easily this system could work using P2P technology, a monthly charge may quite rightly put off customers.

9 January 2008, 10:53

Samsung E370: T-Mobile Three Lions edition

Crave However, if you want to get this special roaming rate you must text 'Germany' to 49017 and pay a one-off £10 charge, so it's only worth it if you're planning to use your phone regularly over there. It's currently available free of charge with a...

Tags: samsung, charge, rate, football

9 June 2006, 11:50

Car Tech: Smart ED electric ninja-mobile

Crave You simply charge it up over the mains, hop in and off you go. You can even charge it for free at any of the 22 electric car charging points scattered around London. It's exempt from London's congestion charge so you can avoid the £8 per day tax...

14 April 2008, 12:51

Crave Talk: Roaming phones still pile on the groans

Crave To this end, they charge each other enormous amounts for accepting calls from out of country, then blame each other for having to do so. By an amazing coincidence, most of the time all the operators in a particular country will charge exactly the...

Tags: country, charge, rates, operators

14 July 2006, 11:10

Toshiba tries Centrino 2: Tecra M10, A10 and Satellite Pro S300

Crave All three laptops include an eSATA port for high-speed data transfer and Toshiba's 'Sleep-and-Charge' USB ports. This allows you to charge USB devices even if the laptop is in sleep or hibernate mode or is powered off, as long as it's plugged into...

Tags: usb, toshiba, technologies, port

15 July 2008, 12:56

Crave Football: Mobile services for the new season

Crave The first option is pretty straightforward -- most network operators offer a football text-alert service for a monthly charge. The charge for using this service varies depending on the network and you'll usually be charged per message, so if you're...

Tags: sky, clips, mobile phone, football

6 August 2007, 13:47

Intel mobile Metro laptop: Razr-thin PC unveiled

Crave Intel doesn't actually make laptops (just the bits that go inside them), so we reckon a company such as Asus will take charge of building and selling it, as it did with Intel's Classmate PC. These folders are said to contain a battery that lets...

25 May 2007, 12:51

Five of the best services for your mobile phone

Crave Downloading and using Google Maps will incur a data charge, so make sure you know how many megabytes you get free with your contract. Again, this service will incur a data charge, so make sure you're familiar with your free megabyte quota before...

Tags: emails, song, charge, maps

8 March 2007, 12:01

Nokia 6110 Navigator: Phone and sat-nav

Crave If you pay a subscription charge, the 6110 Navigator uses the data connection in the phone to download traffic data, helping you avoid traffic blackspots, and warns you when you are approaching speed cameras.

Tags: nokia, gps, strategy, traffic

12 February 2007, 15:40

X-mini speakers: Tunnock's MP3 Cake

Crave The big bonus here, of course, is that these are truly tiny, for all your portability needs, and they plug into any 3.5mm headphone socket.The only real issue is that they charge over USB to an internal, non-replaceable battery, meaning no...

Tags: xm-i, stereo, mini, speakers

15 April 2008, 11:38

We will be good: New Year's resolutions for gadget makers

Crave All these adaptors are providing similar voltages through similar metal prongy things, so let's have a standard voltage and a standard prong and charge everything from one chunk of metal and plastic. Points to Sony Ericsson for including a 512Mb...

Tags: recorder, metal, memory card, duo

3 January 2006, 11:13