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Yea, you read that right -- fifty apps loaded side by side by freaking side on the Pre Plus, and the thing just kept on ticking. The chaps over at Pre Central decided to test out specifically how much of an improvement the doubling of RAM and storage in the new handset delivered, and they were not disappointed. Opening up the same apps on both phones, they found the original Sprint Pre (sporting a mere 256MB of RAM) ran out of puff at the 13 app mark, whereas the Pre Plus soldiered on until a nice round fifty was reached. Go past the break to see the video evidence for
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I’m not quite sure how they do it, but Eye-Fi manages to keep on cramming feature after useful into their wireless memory cards. This time around, they’re introducing a new tier of card (above Pro), the Pro X2. It costs $150, but at least read about what it does before you scoff at the price… The X2 is an 8 gig SDHC card with a built-in 802.11n antenna. N! N means faster uploads at greater distances, so that’s definitely good. And more storage is good too. But the most useful feature of the X2 is the option to have the card delete
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| Turtle Beach Amigo II Turtle Beach announced the Amigo II and Micro II USB sound cards, the latest additions to its Audio Advantage product line. The former adds a stereo output and mic input to your Mac or PC while the latter adds a stereo line output and an optical digital audio output. Turtle Beach Micro II These USB sound cards can isolate the audio signal from the noisy electronics inside a PC or laptop to provide higher-quality sound, thanks to the use of USB
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Ritek USA is back with its new line of CompactFlash cards, the Ridata 600X. Coming in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB sizes, these cards support CIS implementation with 256 bytes of attribute and provide read and write speeds of up to 94MB/s and 92MB/s, respectively. In addition, they also have a MTBF of 1 million hours and feature built-in Error Correction Code (ECC) to detect and correct errors automatically.
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| Transcend announced the new Ultimate Class 10 SDHC memory card, part of the company’s Ultimate line. Transcend’s Class 10 SDHC offers up to 20MB/s write and 16MB/s read speeds, making it ideal for use Full HD camcorder and DSLR. The Ultimate Class 10 is available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities. [transcend]
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| It has been a while since we have seen a new high-end video card come out of NVIDIA. It’s competitor ATI recently launched its new HD 5970 and claimed the title of fastest video card. It seems NVIDIA is ready to fire back in the video card wars with new cards of its own. The new GTX 300 family will include the GTX 380 and GTX 360 video cards. The new cards are both going to offer more performance than NVIDIA’s current GTX 295 offering. The GTX 380 will have better performance than the HD 5970 in some benchmarks with the GTX 360 trailing right
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| One of the best things I bought to go along with my wife’s digital camera was the Eye-Fi SD card. She can never remember how to upload pics to Facebook and I end up having to do it for her. Thanks to the Eye-Fi, the uploading is done automatically and I don’t have to bother. Eye-Fi announced a new update today that allows users of digital cameras that can record video to automatically upload the video directly to Facebook without having to use a computer. The video is also added to RSS feeds to tell friends when it is
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| AMD today announced its new Radeon HD 5700 series of graphics cards, the HD 5750 and HD 5770 (pictured above). The Radeon HD 5750 integrates 720 Stream Processors and offers GPU/memory clocks of 700/4600 MHz, while the HD 5770 adopts 800 Stream processors and features GPU/memory clocks of 850/4800 MHz. Both cards are also equipped with a 1GB of GDDR5 memory, a 128-bit memory interface, ATI Eyefinity technology, dual DVI ports, an HDMI port, a DisplayPort output and support DirectX 11 as well as CrossFirex. The Radeon HD 5750
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| A-Data has just announced a new series of CompactFlash cards, the Speedy CF 533X. Coming in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB sizes, these cards provide read and write speeds of up to 80MB/s and 50MB/s, respectively. Not to mention, they also utilize a quad-channel transfer mode (Ultra DMA mode 0-6, IDE PIO mode 6, MDMA 0-4) and feature Error Correcting Code (ECC) function to detect and correct errors automatically. Sadly, there’s no word on pricing and availability yet. [Product Page via Hartware]
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