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Apple Confirms They’re Moving to New USB-C Standard – (In Europe At Least)
Earlier this month, the EU formally mandated into law that all battery-containing tech products sold within the region would require USB-C support by the end of 2024. – Now, for the vast majority of companies, this wasn’t a problem. Most things these days are USB-C compliant right out of the…
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Apple to Finally Dump Lightning Port in Favour of USB-C by Late 2023?!
While Apple has continued to press forward with its proprietary Lightning charger connection port, the writing has been on the wall for more than a little while now that, sooner or later, and by either choice or mandate, they would eventually have to transition or at least offer out of…
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Apple iPhone 11 Might Finally Ditch Lightning for USB C
Apple To Drop Lightning Port Like it or loath it, one of the most common factors that generally makes Apple products stand out from the pack (other than their price) is the fact that they have (somewhat stubbornly) chosen to stick with their Lightning port connector when many of their…
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SP/ Silicon Power Launches MFi Certified Dual Interface SP xDrive Z50
SP/Silicon Power has launched its latest addition to their Apple solution portfolio called the SP xDrive Z50. The new flash drive doesn’t just come with double connectivity, it also matches the Apple design. SP also got the xDrive Z50 fully MFi certified with its dual interface Lightning and USB 3.1…
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ADATA Announces the i-Memory AI920 Jet Black Flash Drive
ADATA launched the new flash drive for ioS devices called the i-Memory AI920 Jet Black Flash drive. The flash drive features dual connectivity with both USB 3.1 and Lightning in one slim 6.9mm device. ADATA created the new i-Memory AI920 in three capacity options: 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. The performance is…
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SanDisk Increases Capacity iXpand and Wireless Stick to 256GB
iPhones and iPads have one major problem, you can’t expand their internal storage with memory cards. Luckily manufacturers have found ways around that and SanDisk’s options for this are called iXpand Flash Drive and Connect Wireless Stick. Now, these two drives can be had with up to 256GB capacity on…
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Transcend Launches Complete Lightning Line-up for Latest iOS Devices
Apple’s mobile devices are great as is, but they have one problem which has been there from day one and will stay there until the company is no more at some point – the difficulty of transferring files to and from the devices. Other mobile devices can simply be connected…
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ADATA Releases The i-Memory AI920 Ultra-Slim Pen Drive
ADATA is one of the leading memory manufacturers and offers customers a wide range of products for different usage cases. Their latest creation dubbed the I-Memory AI920 is a USB 3.1 Gen 1 flash drive sporting an extremely stylish housing. The drive utilises an Apple MFI-certified Lightning connector with a USB…
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Lexar JumpDrive C20i 64GB USB 3.0 and Lightning Flash Drive Review
Introduction A flash drive doesn’t equal a flash drive, there are a lot of different drives on the market for different purposes and with different connectors. Today I’m taking a closer look at Lexar’s JumpDrive C20i with 64GB capacity. The JumpDrive C20i isn’t just an ordinary flash drive, it is…
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Lexar Releases A Bunch of New Flash Products
Lexar released a bunch of new flash-based products and we naturally also want to update you on these. While HDDs are the go-to medium for NAS and SSDs for the PC systems, we shouldn’t forget about our portable storage and mobile devices. The drive pictured above is the first of…
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PQI Announces New Metallic Rose Gold iConnect for iPhones
One of the things that attract people to Apple devices is the design and that is something that can be matched to a whole lot of peripherals and accessories. Among those are the portable storage drives with a Lightning interface. PQI just updated the recently released iConnect series with a new Rose…
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Lexar Also Introduces Fastest XQD 2.0 Card and New Flash Drives
Lexar has even more in store for us today than the previously mentioned SDXC and CFast 2.0 cards, they also released the world’s fastest XQD 2.0 card, the Lexar Professional 2933x and also the 1400x XQD 2.0 card. New and faster cards also require a faster card reader and Lexar released…
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MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti Lightning Launched
MSI has launched their much-anticipated GeForce GTX 980Ti Lightning, one of the premier overclocking GTX 980Ti’s around. As part of the overclocking Lightning lineup, the card is designed to push the GPU to the limit and is the flagship OC product of MSI. To meet those high expectations, the card…
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MSI Geforce GTX 980 Ti Lightning Pictured
MSI’s hotly-anticipated GTX 980 Ti Lightning has been unveiled by VideoCardz and features a triple slot, Tri-Frozr cooler for improved thermals. The Lightning is MSI’s flagship overclocking card and built on a 12+3 power phase to leverage the extra power required for improved clock speeds. Additionally, there is a dual-BIOS,…
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Lightning Strike Wipes Google Data Centre
Google has suffered permanent data loss after one of its data centres in Belgium, which was struck by lightning four times. The electricity surges from the lightning strikes wiped portions of data from the Google Compute Engine storage systems; some disks affected by the strike were later recoverable. “Although automatic…
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