Christmas is around the corner and it´s a great time to shop for gadgets now and avoid higher prices and stress that comes with Christmas shopping. Most people love gadgets and that is why they are a great gift. To help you get some ideas, here are five great tips for gadgets this year.

Canon Powershot A580

I, for one, think that Canon is the best company to make cameras and their A series provides some of the best value for money in the entire digital camera segment.

The A580 is a new model in this series and is excellent for beginners. With 8 mega pixel, 4X optical zoom, face detection, motion detection technology and wide array of adjustable settings in the manual mode makes it a great camera to learn the basics of photography. Great gift for all camera lovers.

Canon Power Shot A580

Approximate price: $125 to $197

Kodak 10 inch digital frame (1020)

The basic idea for this digital frame is simple. There is an LCD screen with internal memory to store your photo collection and make it possible for you to change the photos or cycle through different once.

This one comes with 128MB of internal memory which means it can fit more than a hundred photos (the exact number depends on the resolution). It also have speakers which makes it possible for you to listen to your favorite music while looking at your photo collection.

You are able to adjust the time delay between images and video clips and navigate using a touch interface.

Kodak Digital Photo Frame

Approximate price: $170

iPod Classic (120 GB)

Apple recently announced that iPod Classic will only come in 120GB flavors. Classic has some couple of advantages towards iPod Nano and iPod Touch.

The one is obviously the huge storage capacity. With 120GB you can store a lot of music files and still have space for photos and videos.

Ipod Classic 120GB

Approximate price: $249

Samsung i450

This music-oriented smartphone is a dual-slider with a Touch wheel for easy scrolling through your music collection. It runs the Symbian S60 operating system which means better multi-tasking and a wider range of applications than the typical phone.

The phone also comes with a 2 mega pixel camera.

Samsung i450

Approximate price: $270

Sony Playstation Portable

Sony Playstation Portable is still the most powerful handheld gaming device in the world.

What makes this device so great is the gorgeous screen and a powerful processor which together deliver great graphics. Because of this there are a wider range of games that can be played on PSP. On top of that, the great quality of the screen makes it possible to watch videos as well making the PSP a very capable media player.

Sony PlayStation Portable

Approximate price: $160