My TechLife

Seen it?? No, doubt it has been named the Athlete USB Hub.. Seems like your USB - HUB will run away in a few mins.

Apart from its funky looks, it has the following Features:
# Plug & Play installation and hot plug.
# Interface standard: USB 2.0 High-speed
# 4 USB ports type A connectors among which 1 pivoting on 180°
# Blue LED indicator.
# Support 480 Mbps transfer rate.
# Pivoting USB upstream port on 180°
# Support Windows Vista, XP, ME, 2000, 98SE
# Dimension: 96 x 60 x 120mm
# Weight: 90g

As seen, the briefcase like thing is 180 degree rotatable, to suit your needs. This things costs a sum of $12!! Decide, whether you want it or not??

The market of Flash drives is increasing at a very fast rate. New companies are ever entering this market. Now, Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, its subsidiary in the Americas, have announced their entry into this market for NAND-flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) with a series of products featuring multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory.

They will be available in a range of form factors and capabilities. The first batch would be offered in three capacities: 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB, in three form factors - an embedded module, and 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch drive enclosures.

These solid-state drives have been primarily designed for notebook PCs. These will be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, from January 7th to 10th. The production and samples are expected to come from first quarter of the next year.

These new SSDs integrat an original MLC controller, which has made them able to build up a 128GB capacity in a 1.8-inch form factor and also helps them to support fast read-write speed, parallel data transfer, and wear-leveling.

The new products utilize NAND flash memory fabricated with 56nm process technology, along with controller chips and DRAM, on a 70.6mm (L) x 53.6mm (W) x 3.0mm (H) platform. The maximum read speed is 100MB per second, and the maximum write speed is 40MB per second with the SATA II interface (transfer rate of 3Gbps), which is compliant with a high-speed serial interface.

The rated operating life is 1,000,000 hours though the prices haven’t been declared yet up.

Details.

Nokia and Vodafone have disclosed plans as to provide faster and better access to the Internet with better communications.

Nokia is the world’s largest mobile phone maker, while Vodafone the world’s larges mobile phone (network) company. vodafone had recently took over Hutch and entered the Indian market.

As said, Nokia will be providing its top-end handsets with high speed 3G which will be exclusively available to Vodafone. Financial details have been kept secret though.

The cooperation will enable customers to access Vodafone’s music service and the Nokia music store, via the Finnish company’s Ovi Web site.

Nokia, the Finnish mobile handset maker who somewhat dominates the Indian Market has introduced its two models of the N-series in India. Nokia N-series is a range of entertainment and feature rich handsets.

The two models mentioned here are the Nokia N81 and N95 8GB models. Both the models are good for storage with 8GB hard drive and sharing of music and multimedia with better battery life and 2.8 inches display.

N95 also offers Global Positioning System. MapmyIndia recently launched their application for GPS and costs around Rs 35,059.

While the Nokia N81 costs a little over Rs 26,000. Mr. Vineet Taneja, Business Director, Multimedia, Nokia India launched the mobile handsets in New Delhi. Actress Isha Sharvani was also present on the occasion.

When it comes to Nokia, don’t see the price. Just wait and watch the price drop.

Nokia is the dominant company in India. And its N-series is getting popular at a very fast rate, with the people. So, it can be expected that, these get a good response in the market.

The whole world was somewhat crazy regarding the release of the gPhone or at least its secret as to what it was.. There has been a number of posts on our blog too. The latest one being related to some info that the gPhone was to be disclosed on Monday.

Monday came and went…. no secrets of gPhone were disclosed, except the OS that it will be based on i.e. Android.

Android is a joint venture of 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile. Here are some quotes to explain Android better, from somewhat the official site of Open Handset Alliance (OHA)

Androidâ„¢ will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open. Android does not differentiate between the phone’s core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone’s capabilities. Android provides access to a wide range of useful libraries and tools that can be used to build rich applications.

There was even a video on YouTube showing the launch, but it has been removed, don’t know why… But a good summary or ‘live coverage’ can be seen on Engadget.

This is sure a great milestone and is surely going to have a lot of changes in the mobile world. Many companies still have not participated, but can soon be expected to do so..

Anyway, coming back to the gPhone, when Eric (from Google) was asked again regarding gPhone, he said “The deal is we don’t pre-announce products… if there WERE to be a Gphone, it would run Android.”

The gPhone still remains a mystery, though a great venture being disclosed…