JEDEC Solid State Technology Association today announced the new UFS 3.0 standard making it the first to introduce MIPI M-PHY HS-Gear4 with a data rate of up to 11.6 Gbps per lane which is a 2x performance increase over UFS 2.1. Continue reading “UFS 3.0 standard released, offers 2x faster performance than UFS 2.1”
Last year at the IFA Western Digital Corporation introduced SanDisk Ultra 400GB microSDXC as the world’s highest-capacity microSD card for $249.99. Now UK-based Integral Memory plc has introduced 512GB microSDXC V10, UHS-I U1 card as the world’s highest capacity microSD. Continue reading “Integral 512GB microSDXC world’s highest-capacity microSD card announced”
Western Digital has introduced their new SanDisk SD and microSD cards line-up for the Automotive and specialized industrial applications. The company claims that these cards work in extreme and radical situations as they come with health status monitor capability, special data retention mechanisms. They are faster than their predecessors thus enabling them to handle tasks like surveying commercial drones and automobile dash cameras. Continue reading “SanDisk Industrial microSD, SD and Automotive SD cards announced, can withstand extreme temperatures”
Western Digital Corporation at the IFA 2017 in Berlin announced SanDisk Ultra 400GB microSDXC, which it claims to be world’s highest-capacity microSD card, couple of years after introducing 200GB microSDXC card. It meets the Application Performance Class 1 (A1) requirements from the latest SD Association’s SD 5.1 specifications that lets the card to load apps faster. Most of the high-end smartphones should support this card. Continue reading “SanDisk Ultra 400GB microSDXC world’s highest-capacity microSD card announced”
After completing SanDisk acquisition last year, Western Digital introduced WD Blue and WD Green solid state drives (SSDs), the first WD-branded SATA SSDs for consumers in October. These were was launched in India a few months back. Both these promise near-maximum speed of SATA drives. Is the WD Blue 250GB SSD worth the price? Let us find out in the review.
Consumers are spoilt for choice when it comes to smartphones. The same is the case for memory cards. However, the difference in terms of memory cards is that majority don’t understand the difference between various cards and the meaning of the terms used by manufacturers. Here is an explanation of some of those terms as well as factors to consider when buying your memory card.
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With people becoming more and more tech savvy, there is an increase of the number of people using smart devices as well as an increase in the number of smart devices used by an individual. Making sure that these devices are charged itself is a big deal and it becomes even more difficult to make sure that all of them contain the necessary content as and when you need it. SanDisk has a solution for your problems such as running out of storage, having to carry multiple device, security of your data etc. Let’s take a look at what they offer.
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Western Digital Corporation today announced 256GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card in India. It was introduced earlier this year at the CES 2017 as the world’s first microSD card that meets the Application Performance Class 1 (A1) requirements from the latest SD Association’s SD 5.1 specifications. It launched 256GB SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive, which is its fastest, high-capacity USB flash drive to date and Extreme Go USB 3.1 Flash Drive. Continue reading “SanDisk Extreme PRO and Extreme Go USB 3.1 Flash Drives launched, 256GB SanDisk Ultra microSD card announced in India”
Smartphones are becoming smarter and smarter with each passing day and that also means that they are more powerful than PCs and computers of yesteryear. Smartphones are also replacing point and shoot camera, MP3 music player, portable gaming device, GPS navigator, video cameras and in some cases portable video players. However, many consumers on the market may not be using their smartphones to its full potential and inferior microSDs are often the reason why. Let us examine how and why its important to have a microSD card that can match your phone’s performance.
At the CES 2017 back in January Western Digital introduced 256GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card as the world’s first microSD card that meets the Application Performance Class 1 (A1) requirements from the latest SD Association’s SD 5.1 specifications. At the MWC 2017 this week it introduced even faster SanDisk Extreme 256GB microSD card with A1 specifications offering up to 100MB/s read speed and up to 90MB/s write speed.
Our data consumption needs are ever-increasing while telecom operators aren’t necessarily making it easier or cheaper for users to access the data that we need. As a result, many of us including some of us at FoneArena often face issues with burning through our data plans much sooner than expected. Storing data on the cloud will help easier sharing but will eat up data.Storing data locally may help reduce data consumption to a certain extent but is quite difficult to share. SanDisk has a new product that will help solve this exact problem by providing an alternate way to store and access your data.
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The constant struggle for space on your smartphone is something that most of our readers would be familiar with. We personally have encountered friends and family having to free up space on their smartphone by deleting apps and content in order to install some app or update their phone or some other reason.
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In a world that is changing as rapidly as ours, it is difficult to keep track of every new technology that comes out and it is even more difficult to understand it and possibly use it meaningfully in our daily lives.
Western Digital today launched 256GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition with read speeds of up to 95MB/s in India. It also launched Ultra Dual Drive m3.0 with a micro-USB connector on one end and a USB 3.0 connector on the other to transfer between Android smartphones or tablets and laptop, PC or Mac. Continue reading “SanDisk Ultra 256GB microSDXC card launched in India for Rs. 13390, Ultra Dual Drive m3.0 launched starting at Rs. 650”
Western Digital has unveiled SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO SDXC, which is currently the world’s highest capacity SD card announced. It introduced that first 512GB SD card back in 2014. This is targeted at users those who shoot 4K videos on their DSLR, advanced digital or HD video cameras and also capacity-intensive applications such as virtual reality, video surveillance and 360 video. Continue reading “SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO SDXC world’s highest capacity SD card announced”
