Offers and Deals Category

As announced in our July 2010 podcast, which contained our in-depth review of BT Vision, Sky Sports 1 and 2 will be available on the BT Vision platform from August 2010 – and we now know the price!

If you’re a BT Vision customer, you can get Sky Sports 1 for £6.99 a month , or £11.99 for both Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. Given that you can also get ESPN on BT Vision (free with a Value Pack), suddenly BT Vision becomes an attractive option for anyone into their football.

Add to that, Sky’s just announced a £3 a month price increase on their standard TV and Sports package.

With the 2010/11 season due to start in a few weeks, if you’re with Sky, it’s time to look again at whether the huge fee you’re paying to Sky is worth it. Sure, you won’t get Sky Sports in HD, but you will get a lower bill each month and still be able to watch all of the Premier League action.

With BT Vision, you also get access to their on-demand sport, movies and TV, as well as 7-day catchup from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five.

If you want Sky Sports on BT Vision, you can preorder now

If you’re not up to speed on BT, have a listen to our 15 minute hands-on BT Vision review (released yesterday), or got to btvision.bt.com for full details.

There are a bunch of Sat Nav apps out there for the iPhone, including the rather expensive TomTom, and our favourite, the CoPilot Live. We’ve stumbled across another iPhone Sat Nav app, the NDrive.

We’ve tested a number of Sat Nav apps for the iPhone, and at £4.99, our expectations of the NDrive weren’t high, but it’s a surprisingly impressive sat nav app, and has some nice touches including a handful of 3D buildings, and a built-in Google location search. Postcode search, lane assist, safety cameras and a speed limit alarm are all there, and the heads-up display is surprisingly impressive.

Whilst a sat nav on a phone isn’t as good as a dedicated stand-alone Sat Nav, at a fiver, it’s worth having as a handy backup for those times when you need a handy voice-driven turn-by-turn navigation solution.

NDrive UK is available for £4.99 – NDrive on iTunes.

Give it a go…

The Joggler is once again on sale for a daft price. Originally £150, then £100 – and now, just £49.99, but only for a couple of weeks.

Here’s what you get for £50:

• Internet Radio
• JPG photo frame
• MP3 and video player
• Shared online diary (inc Google Calendar)
• Live travel news, weather, news and sport
• Games
• Audio streaming
• SMS text messaging
• Google Maps and YouTube

All this from a full-colour, wireless touch-screen device that has a USB slot for expansion.

If you want to know more about the o2 Joggler, have a listen to  Show 41… or to get one, go to shop.o2.co.uk/joggler before the half-price offer ends.

If you caught our Gadget Show Live special released a few days ago, you may have heard us talking about EnigmaTAG.

We’ve now had a chance to give this impressive technology a try. If you’ve ever lost, or being worried about losing, one of your precious bits of tech, then you need to consider EnigmaTAG.

Essentially, you apply a dot of the magic liquid, and that item is marked with a unique code that can be read under UV light by the police. The micro-particles contain a code that’s linked to the UK Immobilise database, so if your lost or stolen device is recovered, the police can reunite your kit.

To see how this works, and to find out more, see our full review of EnigmaTAG.

Want £5 off? FrequencyCast listeners can use the following code at the checkout: EGSL15 for a limited time if you order online at www.enigmatag.com

Users of Tiscali’s broadband and phone service will find that from this Thursday, the 7th of January, they’ll have a new provider – TalkTalk.

In May last year, the Carphone Warehouse announced the acquisition of troubled Tiscali, and the user migration happens this week. However, some users may find that they’re in for a shock. Customers on a broadband-only tariff with Tiscali, may find that unless they’re prepared to sign up to TalkTalk’s phone service, their monthly bill will go from £14.99 a month to £19.99 a month.

Luckily, there are some better deals out there, and switching broadband providers is now pretty easy.

Vak=lue provider Plusnet is offering three months of free broadband to Tiscali customers who switch to their service before the 31st of January 2010. No connection charge and you get a free wifi router. To take advantage of this offer, go to the Plusnet Offers Page and when you get to the payment screen, use the special promotion code tiscalisave.

Alternatively, there’s BE Broadband’s basic service for £7.50 a month. Full details on Be Broadband‘s site.

Got any thoughts on the takeover? Happy to switch to TalkTalk, or are you looking for alternatives? Add a comment here and we may read it out in the next show.

Now that got your attention, didn’t it?

Apple’s currently running a 12 Days of Christmas giveaway, with a different freebie available on iTunes each day until the 6th of January. Today’s giveaway is a free downloadable copy of Lesbian Vampire Killers, the British vampire comedy film. Those who’ve seen the film either love it or hate it, but if you’re reading this post on the 31st of December 2009, get the film for free and make your own judgement.

To get the film, and for more on the 12 days of Christmas, go to www.itunes12daysofchristmas.co.uk

While you’re on iTunes – Don’t forget to give our humble TV and Tech podcast a listen: FrequencyCast on iTunes.

Do you want to be a record breaker? Share the gadget love this festive season by taking part in the Global Secret Santa.

Secret Santa is the tradition of swapping gifts anonymously amongst groups of friends or workmates. Those guys and gals at Firebox.com are attempting to get into the Guiness Book of records by creating the largest Secret Santa. Here’s how it works:

Go to the special Global Secret Santa site, pick a gadget gift from the section on offer, and write a quick message. Firebox will send your gift to a random person somewhere in the world, and you’ll get a mystery gadget from someone else in return. It’s a bit of fun, and you’ll get a gadget for your trouble.

All of the team at FrequencyCast HQ have joined in – so some lucky tech lovers out there will find a gift and a message from FrequencyCast.

Join in too, and share the gadget love at globalsecretsanta.com

If you’re looking to get Sky in the next few weeks, there’s an opportunity to get a £50 Tesco voucher if you sign up to Sky’s TV service online and take out a subscription to Sky Sports, Sky Movies or Sky+ HD.

The £50 Tesco voucher offer is only available until 30th September 2009. Snap it up at the following link: Choose your Sky options