The AR.Drone by Parrot has landed! 

First quadricopter that can be controlled by an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. An interactive game that you can also play with others via a WiFi network and coming soon to other platforms.  Play it indoors or outdoors, and with live video feed via WiFi connection, you can control both cameras.

An online store has been created for your direct shopping pleasure for the AR.Drone and its extreme accessories.  Click here to purchase your AR.Drone and get your party started!

In America, Android's market share has spiraled upwards since the start of the year, with a massive 886 per cent rise in sales according to a recent article on cnet.

It is now the most popular OS for any smartphone, dethroning reigning champ Apple as the king of the hill.

Is the UK about to follow suit?

Well, yes. Probably.

Google's smart-phone platform has not only surpassed the behemoth that is Apple it has also trumped BlackBerry-manufacturer RIM, the previous market leader in the USA.

Handsets running Android grew by nearly ten times in the second quarter of 2010 due largely to its successful partnerships with popular phone manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung.

Analysts have put Android's market share at 34 per cent.

Will Apple and RIM fight back?

I’d bet my house on it.

The recent launch of the iPhone 4, means it may be some time before Apple’s fightback is registered in sales and market share but BlackBerry has already come out fighting - the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and its new OS 6.0 is due any day.

Google is welcoming the battle, saying the competition can only be good for the industry and, ultimately, the consumer.

And they’re right to do just that. The smartphone market is now very much in the Premier League of consumer technology. It is bigger today than the computer industry ever was, and growing ridiculously fast.

So who will emerge the victor?

Well, the consumer wins all day, every day, clearly. As for the manufacturers – it’s maybe too early to call. Apple is probably the most recognisable brand of the 21st Century. It’s everywhere. BlackBerry is the old bear, stirred from its slumber by two new cubs who’ve suddenly realised their offering has claws. And Google’s Android is growing faster than anyone could have predicted.

They’re all smiling right now.

eXpansys UK has thrown out the rule book by offering free shipping on all UK orders before the end of the month on www.expansys.com.

 The major online retailer for consumer technology, has announced the offer already to its faithful twitter followers, but is now shouting loud and proud.

 The charges, ranging from £3 to £37, have been completely wiped in this one time deal.

 The offer ends at the end midnight 31st August so don’t miss out. Get clicking!

Want the latest version of the famous handset from Apple?

Choose your region and order now the 16GB or the 32GB. Both are in stock!

BlackBerry has long been the businessman’s favourite toy, mainly for its easy-to-use email and legendary stability.

Now it is clearly looking to get a foot in the door of the new obsession with truly social phones.

So the gorgeous-looking BlackBerry Curve 3G comes equipped with not only its flawless email service but also a camera, wi-fi, 3G, 256MB RAM and a 320x240 resolution display.

It is also wholeheartedly embracing social media. With the BlackBerry Curve 3G you can stay connected to everyone and everything that matters. Check what your friends are up to on FaceBook, update your Twitter account or just send message to your friends via BlackBerry Messenger. 

The BlackBerry Curve 3G, as you’d expect from any BlackBerry, makes everything so very easy. When you want to relax, dedicated media keys let you chill-out to music or get involved in a movie. It’s all backed up by the world-renowned and unrivalled BlackBerry email service too.

You could almost mistake the BlackBerry Curve 3G for its older brother the 9700 Bold. It has all the same features, with manufacturers RIM even managing to add a few more ("n" WiFi to name but one).

Excited? Any self-respecting BlackBerry disciple should be. And, we’re guessing there’ll be more than a few converts from the ranks of smartphone fans across the globe when this is released in the UK shortly.

Coming in at just £299.99 for the sim-free version (free of charge with a contract) it’s a great introduction to the world of BlackBerry for new users or a no-brainer upgrade for those who have older BlackBerry handsets and want to keep up to date with all their social media contacts. Click here for pre-order the BlackBerry Curve 3G.

If you love big-screen smartphones running the Android OS – and, let’s be honest, who doesn’t? -  but you want more touchscreen for your money, then the Acer Stream might just be your perfect match.

Its gorgeous looking large (3.7-inch) AMOLED screen means there’s no real need for the usual over hyped array of navigational buttons. Instead of awkward digits, use a swipe of your finger across the crisp, smooth lines of its face to get into its impressive inners. Or use the buttons it does have to navigate through your videos – that’s exactly what they’re designed for and they do the job effortlessly.

The Acer Stream is a multimedia best-friend in every sense. Featuring a 5-megapixel camera recording at 720p, with 24-frames-per-second, and a built-in HDMI port means you can beam all your video favourites directly onto your HDTV from your phone.

Acer has gone for a unique look with this phone too. A large clock and your most used apps is all that sits on the uncluttered home screen. It might not be to everyone’s taste – traditional Android home screens are littered with lots of widgets – but it’s certainly simplified things. And at the push of a button all the other widgets are just a finger-tip away.

The Stream's media buttons and HDMI port clearly have media lovers in mind. You’ll get a proper look when it is officially released in August but, suffice to say, when you hold the phone in landscape mode, it becomes an impressively specified hi-def media player with a few, very simple control buttons to get you to just about any point in your video with ease.

The Acer Stream is available exclusively from eXpansys, on a sim-free basis for just £399.99. I’ll say that again - £399.99. It’s one of the cheapest large-screened Android smartphones on the market. Bang for your buck? Oh yes – and then some.

The Acer Stream is all about its HD. It has truly spectacular colour due to its AMOLED 3.7inch screen and its 5 mega-pixel camera captures seriously good HD video as standard. No blurry home-movies with this truly lovely bit of kit. 

OK, so it doesn’t have a camera flash, and it doesn’t include standard definition TV Out but, let’s be honest, with this amount of kit under the hood would anyone really want to put in standard def anyway? No. Thought not.

Battery life is as much as you’d expect from any large screen smartphone – if you use it lots you’ll need to charge it most evenings. 

And, while it might not have the eye-catching design of, say, the Samsung Galaxy S, it’s not – like many of the latest handsets, pretending to be an iPhone. It looks great, does the job very impressively and costs nothing compared to some of its better-known Android cousins.

It’s too impressive to be called a budget phone but it’s a good deal cheaper than anything out there, which rivals it in spec. In fact, it’s probably the best for the money on the market right now.

The Acer Stream is available exclusively at eXpansys, click here for more details. 

Do you have more questions about the Acer Stream? We are running a Twitter Question and Answer session on eXpansysuk Twitter account on Wednesday. We'll help answer your questions. Not already following us on Twitter? Click here.

We've had our first delivery of the exciting new Xbox 360 however stock is already in constraint for these beauties so get your orders in quick. With a new smaller chassis, Wireless N,250Gb hard drive, Whisper quiet operation and Kinect ready the new Xbox is the console for summer! 

In a market supposedly dominated by Apple they have managed to increase turnover from £1.4bn to £2bn and figures for the last three months suggest that even bigger record sales are on the cards.

I’m guessing Nokia aren’t too chuffed. The Swedes dominated the mobile phone market in modern times but have seen HTC, Samsung and Apple massively leapfrog them since the smartphone market opened up in the last two years.

"Normally, June is an off-peak season. The sales figures are really amazing," Michael Chiang of Taiwan International Securities told the AFP news agency.

Apart from its own ‘must-have’ smartphones, HTC was also the design brains behind O2's XDA smartphone and Google's Nexus One phone.

But it is in expanding its own brands, like the beautiful and ‘most-wanted’ HTC Desire, on the back of massive success stories like the HTC Legend, which has seen it out-sprint even the boldest of positive predictions in the last 12 months.

Better still, the amazing HTC Wildfire Android smartphone is now in stock at eXpansys.

It is, as you’d expect of all HTC gear, packed to the brim with fantastic features you can’t leave home without.

Want a phone that’ll give you lightening-fast access to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr all at the same time? Check.
                                      
Want to be able to recommend apps to mates and colleagues straight from your phone by sending them a link? Check.

Want the kind of next-gen Caller ID that tells you your caller’s Facebook status and birthday date when they ring you? Check.

Check out the HTC Wildfire Android available for £229.99 at http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=200153

SOME may say it’s far from a smart move but expect other mobile networks to follow O2’s lead sooner rather than later and bring an end to unlimited data allowances on smartphones.

The word among insiders is that the newly-merged Orange and T-Mobile are already preparing to follow suit, as are 3 and Vodafone. If that happens the floodgates will, as most suspect, be wide open.

Until now, smartphone subscribers have been free to browse or use their chosen App Store on their smartphone as much as they want for a fixed monthly payment. But that is all about to change.

Nobody likes to tell customers they are going to get less for the same price, of course, so managing the whole unlimited capping affair has been something of a PR headache for O2, I imagine.

It was no surprise that O2 was quick to point out that only three per cent of its 21.4 million customers will be expected to pay extra charges.

Clearly it is no longer economic to keep giving the heaviest users so much bandwidth for so little cost because the more they use, the lower the returns for O2.

But the facts often look conspiratorial in black and white, don’t they?

O2 chief executive Ronan Dunne even went to the extraordinary measure of writing a frank but political sensitive blog about the changes on the O2 website. A sure  sign there were some trembly knees after the announcement.

So what does it all mean?

Well, in a nutshell smartphone customers will be data-capped at between 500MB and 1GB depending on their monthly tariff.

Most smartphone users come nowhere near those limits of course. So, for most of us it will be business as usual. Just get used to the fact that the word ‘unlimited’ is about to be deleted from the smartphone dictionary.

The new tariffs came into force on Thursday June 24 – the same date as the iPhone 4 launch. 

Do you get anxious wondering how many emails are awaitng you when you get to the office?  Ever wish you could work on clearing your Inbox on your drive to work?  Now you can!!

iLane has introduced a revolutionary product changing the way we spend our drive to work. The 7100 model is made for BlackBerry users, with an iPhone and Android OS system compatible device coming in the near future.

HEAR YOUR EMAIL... CLEAR YOUR INBOX... WATCH THE ROAD - it's that simple.

That's the way it goes when you use the iLane.  Have emails read to you, reply back, call the sender, file the email, compose an email, get notified when a new email arrives, check your calendar... all things you can do right from your car while your eyes remain on the road.  Maybe you are on vacation this summer and still want to keep your inbox clean - this is the perfect tool for efficiency. Sure, you can do it from your smartphone, but that requires time to navigate through the system, type a reply, move on to the next one, etc.  With iLane you can whiz through your emails in no time while sipping on your Starbucks.

Check out the videos:

iLane Hands-on demo @ MWC 2010

InsideBlackBerry

iLane - Hear Your Email. Clear Your inbox. Watch The Road.

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Coming very soon to eXpansys-usa - get your orders in now!!