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SanDisk introduces Cruzer Crossfire USB Flash Drives for game consoles and PC video gaming

SanDisk has today introduced a gaming oriented USB Flash Drive, the SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire, to serve the needs of console and PC video gamers. The SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire will be available in four color-coded capacities: 512 MB in green, 1 GB in white, 2GB in black and 4GB in blue. The drive comes with an attractive metallic lanyard that attaches to a snap-on cap. When connected to a USB-enabled device, the Crossfire’s indicator light pulses lime-green.

Since the new gaming consoles, with their impressive graphics, are more than just gaming devices and people will also use them to view their digital photos and play digital music and other digital files. Microsoft’s recently released Xbox 360 features three USB ports. And early announcements from both Sony and Nintendo have indicated that their next generation game consoles, PlayStation3 for Sony and Revolution for Nintendo, will also support USB connections.

For owners of the Microsoft Xbox 360 console, the SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire can be used to play digital music tracks and show digital still images on any television set that is connected to an Xbox 360. Suggested retail prices for the SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire are $54.99 for 512MB, $99.99 for 1GB, $169.99 for 2GB and $329.99 for 4GB.

Add comment January 5th, 2006

Kingston introduces microSD and larger storage capacity miniSD and MMCmobile memory cards

Due to the growing demand for memory cards used by mobile phones, Kingston Technology has announced the introduction of microSD memory cards and larger storage capacity miniSD and MMCmobile memory cards. Those are the major memory cards that are used by mobile phones today.

Kingston’s new microSD memory card will be shipped with a 256 MB storage capacity and have a transfer speed of 8.8 MB/sec, read, and 6.5 MB/sec, write. It will also come bundled with a SD Memory Card adaptor and lifetime warranty. This is the first offering in the microSD product line and is expected that larger storage capacities will follow.

Anticipating the need for greater storage capacity for the new multifunction mobile phones, Kingston has announced 1 GB versions of both its existing MMCmobile and miniSD memory cards.

Add comment January 5th, 2006