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ADATA Launches Premier Pro SDHC/SDXC Memory Cards

ADATA has added some new memory cards to its lineup, all of which can be safely used in cameras with both performance and endurance requirements. ADATA's new Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) and Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) memory cards bear the Premier Pro name. That name alone might not be eno...

24 May 2012
13:01 GMT

Green House Releases Industrial SDHC Memory Cards

Memory cards are common nowadays, but there are certain scenarios where they can't really serve, even though they would be perfect due to their size, capacity and performance. Gadgets and phones don't really demand too high an endurance from SDHC cards, but industrial applications are different. Most ofte...

14 May 2012
08:33 GMT

Rugged Samsung Memory Card Shrugs Off 2-Ton Roller

Reviewing a piece of technology usually involves benchmarks and other software tests, but things have to change when looking at the physical side of things. In fact, when examining so-called “rugged” products, people sometimes get creative. It so happens that the folks at German site Smartphonetech we...

17 April 2012
10:59 GMT

Buffalo Reveals Class 6 MicroSDHC Memory Cards

There are some new memory cards for sale in Japan, fit for phones, cameras and anything else that use the microSDHC form factor. Then again, Buffalo, the maker of the cards, also went to the trouble of bundling the newcomers with adapters that convert them into standard-size SDHC cards (the like used by DSii, Dsi, 3...

29 March 2012
09:14 GMT

USB 3.0 Will Lead to Higher Memory Card and Flash Drive Sales

It looks like current marketing conditions and customer preferences are creating a fairly clear picture of the future, as far as the NAND Flash memory market is concerned anyway. Digitimes has published its most recent report regarding the likeliest evolution of the NAND Flash chip storage segment. Granted, this i...

20 March 2012
10:44 GMT

Toshiba Launches the Exceria Memory Cards

There are a bunch of new memory cards making their way towards Toshiba's collection.They will be released in April at the earliest and in August at the latest, this year (2012).The type 1 series have a maximum read speed of 95 MB/s and a write speed of 90 MB/s.Type 2 cards are just as fast when it comes to readi...

14 March 2012
11:06 GMT

Transcend Intros Largest-Capacity 600X CF Card, 64GB

Transcend has just announced the availability of a new memory card line, one that is both fast and capacious enough to store up to 13,000 10-megapixel photos. Memory cards are the only means of storing data that cameras, smartphones and many other consumer electronics and professional devices use. Transcend, being...

17 February 2012
05:40 GMT

Silicon Power Reveals 32 GB Class 6 MicroSDHC Memory Card

It might not be on par with the performance of Class 10, but Silicon Power's new Class 6 microSDHC memory card should find quite a few customers of its own anyway.Long story short, Silicon Power has released a new, SD 2.0-compliant Class 6 microSDHC card whose capacity if of 32 GB.It is intended for all sorts of...

11 February 2012
04:50 GMT

SanDisk Reduces USB Drive and Memory Card Prices

We said that makers of memory products were doing poorly in terms of finances and, in tune with those reports, SanDisk is revealed to have decided to reduce the prices of its NAND products. What Digitimes says about SanDisk is not so different from what Kingston was revealed to be doing a few days ago. Basically,...

7 February 2012
04:28 GMT

Kingston Drops USB Drive, Memory Card and SSD Prices by 15%

Kingston didn't officially say this yet, but rumors are roaming around that it will cut the prices of all its products made out of NAND Flash chips. That is to say, all Kingston USB flash drives, solid state drives (SSDs) and memory cards will end up cheaper by the end of the year (2012). Digitimes is the sou...

4 February 2012
06:16 GMT

Silicon Power Intros 64GB SDXC UHS-1 Class 10 Memory Card

SDXC cards are not exactly very many in number, but Silicon Power is eagerly playing its part in changing that, having completed its latest such item. According to Silicon Power, the SDXC UHS-I 64 GB Class 10 memory card “brings absolutely the best of the transmission speed.” That is about as bold as s...

18 January 2012
05:02 GMT

Lexar and SanDisk Not Rushing XQD Memory Cards Out the Door

One would think that a new and promising memory card standard would be quick to get the support of all companies that would benefit from marketing it, but that does not seem to be the case for XQD. Looks like only two of the four companies known to be planning on selling XQD cards are actually going to apply haste ...

17 January 2012
09:25 GMT

CES 2012: Toshiba FlashAir Is the First SD Card to Feature Wireless LAN

A few days ago, the SD association announced a certain new standard for memory cards and, now, Toshiba has unveiled the first memory card to comply with it. Toshiba's exhibition at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) includes the FlashAir SD card. Basically, this is a memory card that compli...

12 January 2012
09:51 GMT

CES 2012: SanDisk Launches 128GB SDXC Memory Card

Though already advancing faster than most other tech products, memory cards have accelerated in their evolution yet again, this time thanks to SanDisk, a company that just launched two new SDXC models. It is safe to say that SanDisk has just made the day of professional photographers with no financial constraints. ...

10 January 2012
03:18 GMT

Sony XQD Memory Cards Operate at 125 MB/s Read/Write

Anyone who thought Lexar Media's 1000x CompactFlash cards were fast may want to take a look at the ones Sony has just announced. They may not be quite as fast as Lexar's CF at accessing data, but they trump them by being as quick to write as they are to read. Dubbed XQD, the memory cards get their name f...

6 January 2012
03:30 GMT

Lexar 1000x CompactFlash Cards Work at 150MB/s

One would say that there already are very fast memory cards, with or without huge storage capacities to match, but Lexar decided they just weren't fast enough.Thus it was that the company came forth and announced the Lexar Professional 1000x CompactFlash (CF) cards.Available in capacities of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB an...

5 January 2012
11:10 GMT

BitFenix Releases 35-in-1 Card Reader for PCs

Most people probably don't even know just how many memory cards and card sub-types there are but, just to be on the safe side, BitFenix released a reader that handles them all. Priced at 23.90 Euro (31.16 dollars), the product revealed a short while ago is advertised as a 35-in-1 card reader. That means CF, MM...

4 January 2012
08:38 GMT

Transcend Presents New Copy Protection SD/microSD Memory Cards

Hackers have been getting particularly dangerous lately, so Transcend decided that even the smallest storage devices should have high-level protection. What the company did was create some new Copy Protection SD/microSD Memory Cards. With capacities of 2 GB to 16/64 GB, they store data on a CDROM-style partition a...

3 January 2012
08:41 GMT

PlayStation Vita Supports Just One PSN Account per Device

Sony has clarified how the upcoming PlayStation Vita will handle multiple accounts, with the company making clear that PlayStation Network account information is linked to both a memory card and the actual console, with a hard factory reset required in order to introduce new personal information.In a statement to Wir...

16 December 2011
05:46 GMT

Addonics Flash Drive Is Not a Flash Drive

Addonics put together a certain drive kit solution, really a family of such solutions, that is something along the lines of a memory card adapter, or an adapter for more than one memory card. The name of Addonics 2.5-inch Flash Drive has got to be among the most confusing of them all. After all, 'flash drive&...

15 December 2011
13:41 GMT

CFA Announces 125 MB/s XQD Memory Card, Uses PCI Express

There is a new type of memory card in town, one that puts a large emphasis on transferring data as fast as possible, faster than all the existing CompactFlash cards. As one can easily guess, the CompactFlash association is responsible for the appearance of the new card. Then again, it would be more appropriate to ...

8 December 2011
02:59 GMT

Apacer 64 GB MicroSDXC Fastest in the Industry

Smartphones, tablets, PCs, HD games, audio-visual media and everything else that uses small memory cards can now take advantage of Apacer's latest invention. The company describes the Ultra High Speed microSD memory card as the fastest in the world. Such claims have been made before, but the specs of the item...

28 November 2011
14:21 GMT

Norli Libris Sells E-Books on Memory Cards, One at a Time

E-books are supposed to be convenient because they can be downloaded online at any time, but Norwegian retailer Norli Libris wants to turn e-books into physical commodities, so to speak. That is to say, it wants to sell e-books, one at a time, on memory cards. More precisely, it has small, plastic cards that hold...

21 November 2011
08:56 GMT

ADATA Sends Out New microSDHC Memory Cards

World-class developer of memory products, ADATA announced that it had finished making a new bunch of small memory cards for smartphones and anything else that can read microSDHC. They are five in number, with capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB, respectively. Their greatest asset is the UHS-I (Ultra ...

27 October 2011
08:58 GMT

SanDisk's New Storage Line Debuts in Force

Those who though SanDisk didn't have anything up its sleeve besides the memory Vault were sorely mistaken, as that particular item is actually in the minority, according to the new press release. SanDisk released a new storage drive, one that is aimed at holding important photos and videos for 100 years (we co...

14 September 2011
10:58 GMT

Sony SxS PRO Memory Card Is a Super-Fast 64 GB Model

Sony is building on its reputation as purveyor of all sorts of hardware products by bringing forth, according to reports anyway, a new memory card that is both very capacious and very fast. If anything can be said about memory cards, it is that they are very varied, not just in terms of capacity and pricing, but ...

9 September 2011
08:57 GMT

Toshiba Announces WiFi-Equipped 8GB Memory Card

Toshiba is known for many things, from full-fledged PCs to batteries, and it looks like its IFA exhibition will be varied indeed, even including a special memory card of the SDHC variety.The IFA 2011 trade show in Berlin, Germany will take place between September 2 (tomorrow) and September 7.This means that many IT ...

1 September 2011
05:11 GMT

New SLC and MLC Memory Cards Released by Apacer

With electronics getting more and more compact, memory cards have been becoming increasingly more important, something Apacer, whose portfolio just saw the arrival of both SLC and MLC-based products, definitely is aware of.There is a healthy number of possible uses for memory cards, especially now that they are able...

15 July 2011
04:03 GMT

64 GB Delkin Memory Card Operates at 95 MB/s

Samsung may have covered the market of mobile devices when it unveiled its newest microSD card, but Delkin is the one who developed a product for photo cameras and video camcorders.End-users will have possibly spotted a certain bit of news trumpeting the fact that IBM created a new storage technology that, while not...

30 June 2011
05:44 GMT

Samsung MicroSD Card for Smartphones Stores 32 GB

Even as it releases one new product and update after another, Samsung invested enough time, effort and resources into creating a memory card aimed at fourth generation smartphones.Samsung has been releasing hardware products and consumer electronics for quite a while now, so it has an established portfolio.One facet...

30 June 2011
03:03 GMT

PNY Memory Cards Supply Users with 250 GB Storage

It appears that IT companies from around the world really are betting big on the cloud storage industry, with PNY having decided to create memory cards that can give users direct links to this type of service.Memory cards are a pretty straightforward storage solution, being small, compact devices that grant portable...

21 June 2011
03:05 GMT

Mushkin Announces New SDHC and microSDHC Cards for Mobile Devices

Mushkin, best known for producing computer memory modules, has just announced the availability of new SDHC and microSD cards for mobile devices. The U.S.-based company is also known for the quality of its memory products that are available in several performance categories from standard to extreme. According t...

16 June 2011
04:27 GMT

Kingmax Steps in With Its Own Large-Capacity MicroSD Card

It appears that cramming as much capacity as possible inside tiny packages has become quite the trend nowadays, with Kingmax now stepping forward to provide a sort of alternative to what most consumers might be used to.Nowadays, there are so many mobile devices on sale that it is practically impossible to count them...

25 May 2011
08:06 GMT

New Class 10 MicroSDHC From Kingston Is Fast and Capacious

Kingston is known for making all sorts of storage solutions, so it is no surprise that it would come out and reveal a new one for mobile devices, especially one with the high specifications implied by its rank on the Class rating system.When it comes to mobile devices, especially smartphones, storage space has to co...

24 May 2011
07:57 GMT

Professional USB 3.0 Dual-Slot Reader Presented by Lexar Media

While most laptops today have memory card readers by default, desktops don't, since motherboards lack these components, meaning that one has to buy an accessory to read off those storage units, one like the one made by Lexar. Memory cards are, one might say, fairly wondrous storage solutions, in that they c...

20 May 2011
02:35 GMT

Team Group Memory Card Has 2 TB Storage

Those that thought a certain pair of flash drives was all that Team Group had prepared for its prospective customers were clearly mistaken now that a new press release has emerged.It appears that Team Group is definitely ready to let loose with new NAND Flash-based storage solutions.The new duo of USB 2.0 flash driv...

5 May 2011
08:53 GMT

Kingmax 64 GB SDXC Memory Card Is Waterproof and Dustproof

There are multiple things that can enable a product to stand out from the rest of its kind, and it looks like Kingmax went for more than one less than ordinary trait when it built its latest SDXC memory card.Memory cards are one of the determining factors in the performance of such things as video or photo cameras, ...

26 April 2011
02:52 GMT

Eye-Fi Mobile X2 Is a SD Card with WiFi Connectivity

There might not be many of them, but memory cards with built-in wireless connectivity definitely exist, as proven, yet again, by Eye-Fi, whose latest product has just become the subject of a press release.Hybrid devices are definitely not a new concept on the IT market but neither are they overly widespread.In fact,...

12 April 2011
05:24 GMT

Delkin Delivers Very Fast SDHC Memory Cards

It appears that Delkin figured it might as well build upon the UHS specifications and create a line of SDHC memory cards, dubbed Elite 633, which don't mind demanding solid prices in exchange for performance and reliability.Nowadays, cameras and video recorders are constantly improving and the resolutions at wh...

11 April 2011
04:01 GMT

New Samsung Memory Cards Perfectly Fine Underwater

When speaking of memory cards, one would expect the main subjects of discussion to be capacity and speed, followed closely by form factor, but it looks like Samsung found a certain other asset to add to its products.Nowadays, NAND Flash memory is very widespread across practically all segments o the IT market.Variou...

28 March 2011
08:51 GMT

Kingston Develops New, High-Speed MicroSDHC Memory Card

It seems that some movement can finally be seen on the IT market, as some new products are coming out, albeit not in as high a numbers as some might hope, with Kingston being one of the most recent to present a new invention.While the mobile industry is getting quite a healthy influx of new releases, what with CTIA ...

22 March 2011
11:40 GMT

Professional SDXC Memory Card from Lexar Has 128GB Capacity

It seems that Lexar is as eager as ever to supply the industry with newer and better storage solutions, in this case a high-capacity memory card that should work best for professional photographers and the like.It is no mystery that the IT market is already packed with a drove of memory cards of varying capacities, ...

16 March 2011
04:04 GMT

Sony's Next Generation Portable (PSP2) Will Get Games on Memory Cards, Not UMD

Sony's Next Generation Portable console (aka the PSP2) won't rely just on digital downloads as the only way of getting games for the platform, because Sony is pushing a new type of physical distribution, based on memory cards. The old PlayStation Portable was used by Sony to launch the Universal Media Di...

31 January 2011
04:30 GMT

SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I Flash Memory Card Works at 45 MB/s

While Transcend is dealing with new solid state drives, SanDisk is promoting a different sort of Flash-based storage solution, namely a new SDHC memory card meant for photo cameras and video capture.The newest SDHC memory card that SanDisk came up with is dubbed SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I.It is based on the most...

17 January 2011
09:30 GMT

Lexar Adds the 32GB Class 10 MicroSDHC Memory Card

It seems that Lexar Media is not yet done with introductions, as its collection of memory cards continues to grow even now, with the addition of a certain microSDHC model. One may think that Lexar's launching of the Echo MX and Echo ZX USB backup drives, and of the 128GB SDXC card, would be enough for a pr...

5 January 2011
10:06 GMT

Lexar Comes Up with 128GB SDXC Memory Card

Lexar Media may not enter the spotlight as often as other companies on the IT market, but it definitely knows how to cause large waves when it does, as is proven by how it just provided a certain memory card with a positively massive storage capacity. The thing about flash storage is that, when used in the making of...

3 January 2011
09:57 GMT

Green House Goes Pink and Violet with New SDHC Memory Cards

Green House figured it was high time it released a new collection of memory card on the Japanese market, only it decided to offer something a little different than usual, mostly by calling upon the power of color variety.As end-users may or may not know, memory cards can be classified mainly according to the form fa...

16 December 2010
04:31 GMT

Class 2 microSDHC from I-O Data Sells Alongside an SD Adapter

With all the new memory cards coming out, and with new standards being started, makers of such storage solutions have to make sure that they have all sorts of cards on sale, so I-O Data created a new Class 2 model.Since there are many sorts of consumers, there need be multiple types of the same product if they are a...

1 December 2010
05:43 GMT

CFA To Use PCI Express to Make 500 MB/s Memory Cards

It seems that the CompactFlash Association has decided to start moving faster in development of new, high-speed memory cards, so it established a new group meant to develop a new format, one that will be both better and significantly different from the current one.Makers of storage solutions have been releasing memo...

30 November 2010
05:24 GMT

Buffalo Japan Also Delivers 64 GB SDXC

With all the advancements in NAND Flash storage, memory cards have reached a stage where they not only rival but actually exceed the capacity and even performance of most USB flash drives, among other things, as is again proven by a certain new Buffalo product.Memory cards are used in everything from smartphones to ...

17 November 2010
06:07 GMT


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