A report from Prudential Equity Group indicates Apple would be smart to shift from HHD to flash memory for the larger iPods. Although the cost-per-gigabyte would be more, the user experience and product logevity would improve. Currently only about 3.5 hours of juice are available for iPods when running video you don’t want to lose power at the climax.
Switching to flash memory reduces power consumption and extends video play to 5.5 hours, as significant improvement. With current iPod sizes at 30GB and 80GB and the largest flash memory (at a decent price for CE products) at 32GBs it’s a fairly easy decision to make. By the time all solid flash memory devices are ready to hit the market we are looking at a high-end capacity range of 120GBs. (more…)
Make it small, very small. That was the mission statement for this project. iMono has a clean looking SIM and multi-card reader which is housed in a USB chassis for quick connection to your PC.
Supports all the popular mobile card formats; mini SD Card, Micro SD (T-Flash), Secure Digital Card, MMC Card 4.0, MultiMedia Card, MultiMedia Card Plus, RS-MMC (MMC Mobile), RS-MMC4.0 (MMC Mobile 4.0), MMC micro, MS / MS Duo / MS PRO Duo, Mobile SIM Card. Also comes with a SIM phone book software suite which is extremely nice – who wants to input contacts via a phone pad – not me.
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The C Series from Sony VAIO is now available in a variety of colors and designs like Sony VAIO pink. Most notably is the pink – perfect for your lady friend. Or maybe this will help inspire your mom getting up with the ages.
Along with wide LCD and fast processing speeds (Intel Core 2 Duo processor) she’s expandable with memory via USB for Readyboost and memory stick slot for data exchange between cameras, camcorders, PMPs, phones – you name it. (more…)
Sony Ericsson is introducing a new flip phone with a clean simple look. The claim shell design has a 2mp camera on the back side and all the nav abilities one would want on the inside. Streaming FM stereo and video are a plus and expandable memory via a Sony Memory Stick slot. Only available in Japan at the moment, to be expected.
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We’ll add this to the list of, “where’d my UFD go” as Trascend’s T2K UFD (USB Flash Drive) is one of the smallest of it’s kind. Thank God they included a slot and tether to batten her down to our person. Enjoy the T2K in 1, 2 and 4GB capacities. Apparently Transcend uses a special sealing process to bond the plastic case to the internal memory, pcb and connectors.
Included on the UFD is JetFlash Elite software which are eight applications which ship free of charge. Those are: auto login, PC lock, favorites, secret zip, e-mail client, data backup, My JetFlash to easily access files and on-line JetFlash Elite update utility.
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Can’t stand iPods, looking for an iPod alternate? The Tomato MP3 player from PlayTomato is a good front runner. This 2inch TFT LCD screen provides superior viewing quality to most PMP units at 260,000 colors. Plays both video and photo, as well as MP3 and streaming radio.
Not sure about the sound quality as that depends on the compressions engine used. With a MiniSD slot for additional storage the Tomato MP3 player is kinda sweet. On board USB for sync, speakers for listening and mic for recording. (more…)
