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Experience reliable, portable storage with a SanDisk Cruzer USB Flash Drive. Why leave your photos, videos and music at home when they’ll fit in your pocket? Trust the minds behind flash memory to make it easy to store, transfer and share your digital files wherever you go.

With up to 32GB of storage, these drives are built to handle the real world’s bumps and turns-so you can count on them to help you share plenty of photos, videos and other digital favorites wherever you go.

The Rapid Case, Sharkoon’s first USB 3, is a 2.5in drive caddy that converts SATA 3Gbps to USB3.

Opening the enclosure involves removing two small screws and while it’s a tight fit, the casing is sturdy and comfortably stood up to a quick kick around the CPC labs.

A blue LED indicates power and drive activity. Using a top-of-the-range 256GB Crucial C300 SSD, test showed read and write speeds of 197MB/sec and 166MB/sec respectively, which is some way off SATA 6Gbps but more than enough to all a 2.5in hard disk to run at full speed.

USB2 speeds were very good too, with the drive managing sequential read/write speed of 33MB/sec and 28MB/sec.

While previous revisions of the iPhone have been small updates to the existing design, the iPhone 4 feels like a new phone. For a start, it’s the thinnest model yet, and the slender new case makes the old ones feel a bit podgy.

One of the main new features is a front-facing camera, primarily for FaceTime video calls. However, these can currently only be made over a WiFi connection. The quality of the video is surprisingly good, and it’s quick to switch between front and rear cameras. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone announced a new thin slab of smartphone: iPhone 4.0 with an amazingly sharp screen.

What’s new? Is there any new iPhone features? Yes,there are: new design, a front-facing camera, new integrated antenna, a second mic for noise cancellation, microSIM.

iPhone 4 runs on iPhone OS 4 OS. Powered by the A4 processor iPhone 4 features a new camera with a backside illuminated sensor which supports 5x digital zoom, LED flash, GPS and records a full 720p at 30fps HD video.

The new battery supports 10 hours of video recording, 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, up to 40 hours of music, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 300 hours of standby.

In the US iPhone 4 will be available on June 24 at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model.

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Russell Brown, the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated, has released a special iPhone application: the Photoshop 1.0.7.  It allows access to the Photoshop 1.0 Levels panel, taking any image in the iPhone’s gallery as well letting you tweak white point, black point and gamma, in separate red/green/blue or combined channels – including the original image histogram feature. Then the modified picture can be saved into your iPhone library. The application was built entirely with Corona SDK, using UI graphics and font images from the original Macintosh System 6 version of the application (circa 1990). Read the rest of this entry »

The world’s most popular mobile Web browser maker Opera Software plans to reveal Opera Mini for iPhones and  preview it during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC). Mini Opera is supposed to be fast, easy to use, and packed with favorite Opera features.

Opera Mini is designed with usability in mind with favorite desktop features in its arsenal  such as tabs, Speed Dial and the password manager.

“This is a unique opportunity to introduce the fast, feature-rich Opera Mini experience for the iPhone, and to showcase our latest beta releases of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini on other platforms and devices. Opera’s mission is to bring the Web to the world, and by making Opera Mini available on yet another platform, we are one step closer” said Co-founder of  Opera Software Jon von Tetzchner.

AT&T’s decision to deny iPhone users the ability to stream their Sling content over 3G soured the launch of the app last year, but it seems the carrier has now relented.  According to the press release, AT&T have been testing a freshly “optimized” version of the Sling Player for iPhone software, which it obviously believes won’t drag its 3G network to its knees.

Sling Media reckon the app “dynamically adjusts the bandwidth based on network conditions and picture quality”, something more usually seen in preserving picture quality on variable-speed networks rather than preserving the network itself.  The new version of the application is yet to be released, as it’s waiting on approval from Apple for inclusion in the App Store; it will be offered as a free upgrade for those who bought the original $30 app.

It belts out severe weather alerts as storms are barreling towards your domicile. It acts as a decent bedroom stereo. And it wakes you and the SO up to your own favorite jams — all while charging your iPod or iPhone throughout the night. If those amenities sound like must-haves in your own life, you might be interested in knowing that iLuv’s iMM183 dual dock alarm clock is now shipping, nearly a full year after being originally announced at CES.

Although we’d like to see Apple’s tablet emerge by the end of the year that will certainly not happen. Phil Shiller, Apple’s senior vice president has confirmed that the company will not introduce any new product this year. The refreshed Macs we’ve seen last week are supposed to be the last new products to be launched by Apple in 2009

But that doesn’t mean that we won’t have more and more Apple tablet rumors. After we’ve seen the tablet confirmed by the New York Times, now we hear that Australian media companies are talking to Apple about the upcoming tablet. Read the rest of this entry »

Remember how in grade school, you usually made fun of the people you had crushes on? Verizon — hot on the heels of some surgically strategic anti-iPhone marketing to promote its upcoming Android line — is singing a very different tune in the corporate boardroom, with CEO Ivan Seidenberg (who has a storied reputation for running his mouth) saying during the company’s earnings call today that the company “obviously would be interested at any point in the future that they would be interested in having us as a partner.” He went on to say that the decision to bring the iPhone to Verizon is “exclusively in Apple’s court,” though we doubt that’s entirely true — Verizon has a reputation for putting manufacturers and devices through the wringer, and if any carrier in the world were to spike the iPhone for failing acceptance testing or throw its gargantuan weight and reputation around to put pressure on the contract, it’d be Big Red. Read the rest of this entry »