China might be setting the standard for cell phone charger connections to become USB. The Chinese government will impliment a single national standard on mobile phone chargers sold in the country to avoid waste and to lower manufacturing costs. Under the new standard, all mobile phones, regardless of the brand, will be able to share one charger via USB access, allowing users to charge handsets through any USB port.The unified standard will cut the cost of a new handset and reduce electronic waste and consumption of resources, a Ministry of Information Industry (MII)official said. China has almost 450 million cell phone subscribers, with up to 100 million replacing their phones
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Inspired by Mickey Mouse, A-Data has a Mickey sports collection flash drive to make mass storage fun. The Mickey USB flash drive(RB18) comes with two capes, one with a smiley face and another as a brushed impression – basically Mickey’s head and ears. A-Data has made the Disney flash drive water-proof to sport him up a little. Looks like there will be more styles rolling out to include
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Ahh, the wonderful things you can do with U3…like stash arcade games on your flash drive so the boss wont know. Forget about Christmas Turkey and step up to Christmas Chicken in this festive edition of Chicken Invaders 2
“In the first chapter of the Chicken Invaders saga, you defended earth against an invasion of intergalactic chickens seeking revenge for the oppression of their earthly brethren. However, as you were clearing out the last of the chicken invaders and were looking forward to a double chicken burger
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GetUSB.info stumbled upon this one while researching another product, ACP-EP Memory teamed with Burton Snowboards to introduce two different styled USB flash drives or Snowdrives. With a cool rubberized feel, these snow board shaped UFDs have authentic Burton graphics of the legendary Custom model and the Vapor model. The LED light to indicate activity appears at the head of the board. Capacity ranges from 512MB to 2GBs with 2 year warranty.
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FM Transmitter via USB or SD card is not a problem with Brando’s new Car To USB Transmitter. When you’re not smoking just plug in the USB-FM Transmitter via cigarette lighter, connect either a USB flash drive or SD card, tune in your stereo and you’re rock’ in. There is an LCD display along with play, pause, shuffle, next, volume, previous and FM tuner selections. As we’ve said before, BrandoContinue Reading
GetUSB.info has read about iPhone for months now. Well the guys at MethodShop put together enough info to make anyone believe the iPhone from Apple will really happen, and soon. Based off drawings submitted for the iPhone patent it appears there is a sliding telephone touchpad which drops from the back-side of the iPod.
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The “to be” newly released USB memory + webcam from Volvox is small on size and mega pixels. The SYV30RP is due to hit stores but at only 1.3Mp and 30fps is not much to get excited about, BUT the USB memory + web cam is amazingly small and ideal for a plain-view hidden camera which looks like a flash drive and acts like one (512MB, 1B, 2GB storage). To view the spec page and more details
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USB ReadyBoost drive from Super Talent is the first official USB drive that is specifically targeted at the Windows Vista ReadyBoost technology. By using either the Super Talent 1GB or 2GB flash drive you can instantly boost PC performance via increased RAM by inserting the flash drive into your PC. This is a nice technology Microsoft developed which greatly aids in the ability
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Vafor is into the spirit with their Santa flash drive. As with the PQI flash drive the USB connector is retractable for cap-less protection against damage. Size ranges from 128MB to 2GBs but the manufacturer only has them available in the UK or China so it looks like US folks better order today to get that Santa flash stocking stuffer.
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Attention holiday shoppers who are on an extremely tight budget…ACP-EP Memory USB 1GB flash drive is $0 after two rebates & Google checkout via Buy.com. You start at $50, then receive a $20 mail in rebate and a $10 rebate during the purchase process. Google checkout is offering a $20 coupon upon checkout for purchases of $50 or more…thus $0 final price.
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Just in time for Christmas Genius launches a new VoIP mouse phone the Navigator 380; however, it still doesn’t make sense to use a mouse for internet calls, don’t you have to navigate Skype, even just a little? BUT, if your determined to save desk space and into multiple features from a single gadget then the Navigator 380 is probably worth looking into. The VoIP mouse connects via USB and folds open in call mode and claps shut for mouse mode.
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Sony Ericsson integrated both Bluetooth and USB to create a sleek Sony VoIP headset package. The VoIP Kit HBV-100 uses the HBH-PV705 Sony Ericsson headset along with Bluetooth USB adaptor to get all the normal benefits of a Sony headset such as hands-free talk, long talk and stand-by times and of course great, Sony, sound quality.
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The unified standard will cut the cost of a new handset and reduce electronic waste and consumption of resources, a Ministry of Information Industry (MII)official said. China has almost 450 million cell phone subscribers, with up to 100 million replacing their phones
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