Providers are on the lookout for more ways to draw users to their mobile broadband products, and this is clear from the merchandise that comes with these connections. USB dongles are especially attractive now due to their shinier new avatar and increased storage capacity (up to 8 GB), which makes it unnecessary for you to carry a USB memory stick with you if you have your dongle.

You can buy a range of skins and themes for your USB dongles in everything from false crocodile skin to leopard print in a whole host of patterns and any colour imaginable. All you need to do is go online (using your mobile broadband dongle!) and shop for what you need.

Mobile broadband dongles are thus fast becoming a fashion item, making it a fashion crime for you to move around with an old black USB stick covered with network branding. It is a niche market but it may just grow more popular as it has come up with a special mobile broadband for girls in pink! So go on girls keep up and click here for the latest in dongle deals.

You now have designers joining the fray with Henry Holland having already designed a dongle for O2 with a polka dotted theme. However, if polka dots do not suit your style, than Orange has come up with the pink E160 dongle with 8 GB storage, and the Asus Eee PC netbook, also pink, looks quite attractive too – although you shouldn’t really buy both as the shades do not go well together and the Eee PC anyways has on-board mobile broadband.