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Hardware
SanDisk Starts Shipping X4 Flash Cards, Will Eventually Be Awesome
7:20PM Dan Nosowitz | SanDisk’s X4 tech packs four bits of data into each memory cell, compared with the typical one or two bits. That means they’ll be able to far exceed the 32GB limit on SDHC, microSDHC and others, and they’ve started shipping. More »
Peripherals
SanDisk ExtremePro Cards Are Extremely Fast, Extremely Expensive
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | The best $US50 I’ve spent in a month was on a roomier CompactFlash card for video-taking DSLRs, but it looks like I should’ve waited: SanDisk’s new ExtremePro line push 90MB/second read/write speeds and comes in 16, 32 and 64GB sizes. More »
Music
Sansa Clip+ Review: Big Sound, Tiny Body
10:20AM Dan Nosowitz | Sandisk’s Sansa Clip has been the preferred cheap mp3 player for audiophiles for awhile now, and the Clip+ improves on the original in price, design, capacity and features. Basically, this is the best trash mp3 player around. More »
Music
SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Keeps The Bizarre SlotRadio Dream Alive
11:04PM John Herrman | Remember slotRadio, SanDisk’s anachronistic plan to load microSD cards with sometimes DRMed music, as if they were CDs? It was strange! Also strange: SanDisk still believes in it, and they’ve even produced a second, fuller-featured player called the Clip+. More »
Peripherals
SanDisk Claims Title Of World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card
10:00PM Dan Nosowitz | The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world’s fastest. More »
Hardware
Flash Storage Is About to Hit a Brick Wall
8:00AM Matt Buchanan | That dire warning comes from SanDisk’s CEO Eli Harari. The capacity of flash chips has doubled 19 times in 14 years to 64 billion bits, currently. But Harari says they’re “running out of electrons.” More »
Gadgets
Motorola Sends Teeny Ear Clips In Huge Cardboard Box
10:20AM Wilson Rothman | Giz reader Thomas just received two 2-inch Bluetooth earhooks from Motorola—in a 320-cubic-inch box. As he puts it, “the package was filled with about 99% air.” Haven’t they heard of envelopes? More pics: More »
Peripherals
SanDisk ImageMate Card Readers Were Actually Designed
11:00AM Matt Buchanan | Whoa, these are card readers? Mundane but necessary gadgets deserve essentialised designs, and SanDisk’s new ImageMate All-in-One and Multi-card look a lot like Neil Poulton’s bare, black and glossy hard drives for LaCie. More »
Music
