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Sony SD cards with wireless Transfer Jet

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Saturday 9th, January 2010

Sony is set to bring its special blend of quality, reliability and performance to the memory card market with the launch of a range of SD / SDHC and microSD / microSDHC memory cards. With the Memory Stick product line, Sony also introduces the world's first, high value-added model with the function of close proximity wireless transfer technology Transfer Jet (MS-JX8) aiming at offering new advantage and unique user experience to customers instead of supplying a memory card for recording / storing data. "SxS (S by S) Memory Card" for professional products offers users various benefits which support and enhance features of a host device with its ultra high-speed data-transfer and high reliability.

Panasonic SDXC memory cards

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Saturday 9th, January 2010

Panasonic announces the availability of the company's first 64 GB and 48 GB SDXC memory cards. SDXC is the next generation SD memory card, a new standard for storing data more than 32 GB and up to 2 terabytes. The new Panasonic SDXC memory cards, the RP-SDW64GE1K (64 GB) and RP-SDW48GE1K (48 GB) are Panasonic's largest-sized GOLD cards with Class 10 speed specification. Featuring new advanced Super Intelligent Controller helps to improve the reliability of the card and extend its lifetime. The new 64 GB and 48 GB SDXC memory cards will be globally introduced in February 2010 with suggested retail prices of $599.95 and $449.95, respectively.

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SanDisk Memory for Nintendo Wii

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Friday 9th, January 2009

SanDisk announced a 2 Gigabyte 2 Rock Band 2 SD gaming card, significantly increasing the storage capacity available to gamers using the Nintendo Wii console. This memory boost enables users to conveniently store additional content without worrying about running out of space. The SanDisk 2GB Rock Band 2 SD gaming card is expected to be available for U.S. retailers this Spring, and carries a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $12.99.

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Sony MS PRO-HG Duo HX

Posted by: Mark Peters Thursday 8th, January 2009

Sony has doubled the capacity of its new high speed Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX, giving customers a massive 16GB of storage. Fast read/write speeds and a free USB adapter make the latest Memory Stick ideal for transferring pictures to a PC from HD camcorders or continuous-shooting DSLRs. The inclusion of a free USB adaptor makes it very simple to transfer data onto a PC or notebook, and ensures optimum performance. With 20MB/s read and 15MB/s write1, data transfer times are more than three times faster than the current PRO-Duo can achieve. Another extremely useful bonus comes in the form of the free, downloadable Sony Memory Stick Data Rescue Service which can quickly recover deleted photographs and files.

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SanDisk mobile phone memory cards

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Wednesday 7th, January 2009

SanDisk, a global leader in flash memory products, announced at the CES 2009 in Las Vegas that it will be shipping its 16 gigabyte (GB) SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) mobile memory cards - the world’s largest removable flash storage capacity for mobile phones - in January 2009. This increased memory capacity, coupled with the high performance of the SanDisk Mobile Ultra flash memory line, allows consumers to further take advantage of the many storage-intensive features offered by today’s multimedia phones such as music playback, digital photo and video camera functions, gaming and GPS navigation applications.

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SDXC flash memory cards

Posted by: Dennis Hissink Wednesday 7th, January 2009

The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification, announced today at the 2009 International CES, dramatically improves consumers' digital lifestyles by providing the portable storage and speed needed to store weeks of high-definition video, years of photo collections and months of music to mobile phones, cameras and camcorders, and other consumer electronic devices. The new SDXC specification provides up to 2 terabytes storage capacity and accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second. The new SDXC memory cards will enable camcorders to provide longer, professional level HD video recording with a small form factor.

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Full-HD video memory card from Lexar

Posted by: Mark Peters Monday 5th, January 2009

Lexar Media announces a new line of memory cards specifically designed for extended, standard- and high-definition (HD) video capture. The Lexar Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Full-HD and the Lexar Memory Stick PRO Duo Full-HD Video memory cards give consumers a wide selection of easy-to-use memory solutions for capturing and storing more of the videos that matter, in stunning 1080 resolution full-HD video. In addition to providing consumers with a reliable alternative to traditional tape-based storage devices, the Lexar Full-HD video memory cards also offer high-speed video transfer from the card to a computer for backup and sharing on popular user-generated content websites.

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SATA CompactFlash memory card

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Friday 2nd, January 2009

The CompactFlash Association (CFA) announces that CFast connectors and package will be displayed at CES in the CFA booth South 3 30166. The CFast WG was formed in July 2007 to develop the CFast specification for a CompactFlash card with a SATA (Serial ATA) interface. CFA members interested in the SATA interface should apply for inclusion in the CFA's SATA working group. Mr. Shigeto Kanda of Canon and the CFA chairman of the board said "The development of a CompactFlash card with a SATA interface will maintain the dominance of CompactFlash in the non-consumer (embedded systems, single board computers, data recorder, etc.) markets as well as promote its use in other applications such as digital SLR cameras and professional video cameras.

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You can’t have enough memory! A slogan that for many years was always accurate, but today’s storage capacity seems to increase faster than the need of today’s consumer and products. Look at the SDXC (Secure Digital eXtra Capacity) flash memory card, available in 48 and 64GB capacities and this year increasing to at least a double sized capacity. Amazing quantities on even impressive small format flash cards will carry high quality data like Full HD and 4K video, high resolution photography and 3D. Devices like tablets will boost the demand of flash memory, Portable entertainment or business use strongly increase the need for fast and high capacity memory. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will showcase the latest developments in storage and will give an up-to-date on the upcoming flash memory road maps.