So you’ve spent a few grand on a Vertu phone, but need something else to illustrate just how much of a high roller you are. Would a matching Vertu pen, Bluetooth headset and memory card reader do the job?
Japanese phone king KDDI is showing off a MicroSD card with built-in Wi-Fi, sorta like those photo-uploading Eye-Fi cards everyone loves so much. Actually, they’re just like that, except, well, micro.
The new CompactFlash adaptor from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once.
The $US50, 4GB MAX Memory card from Datel for the Xbox 360 is special not because there aren’t many third-party Xbox 360 memory cards around, but because it supports microSD cards.
The world has changed. My first digital camera – a Cybershot P9 from Sony that shot 5MP stills and cost me $1,300 (right before the bottom fell out of the digital camera market) was state of the art for its time. Nowadays, both DSLRS and compacts are shooting HD video, 10MP stills and can chew through your memory faster than my old Cybershot chewed through its included 32MB memory stick. Fortunately, memory has also changed to adapt to the growing needs of the discerning photographer, with faster read and write speeds and higher capacities. And Giz AU has partnered with Lexar to offer readers the chance to win one of 10 high capacity storage prize packs.
You regular consumers can now buy the Telstra BigPond 21Mbps USB modem from your local T[life]or Telstra store. Of course, it’s going to cost you though.
MicroSD cards are so prolific nowadays that it’s about time for companies to differentiate their products using cutesy designs. If you’re a 15-year-old girl, these goth- and love-themed 2GB ought to thrill.
