A week after Barnes & Noble released a new version of the NOOK Tablet, hackers have figured out how to get it to boot from a microSD card. This allows you to circumvent the locked bootloader and load custom firmware on the tablet including ClockworkMod Recovery or custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod 7. The new $199 NOOK Tablet features a…
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When the Motorola XOOM hit the streets in February it was missing two key features: a 4G LTE modem and a working SD card slot. It took a while, but in July Motorola finally rolled out an update that allowed users to insert an SD card and read data from it. And last month Motorola and Verizon finally started to…
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Good news everyone… outside of the US! Motorola is finally going to make that useless microSD card slot on your XOOM tablet start working. Motorala Europe has announced that it has already started rolling out a software update bringing Google Android 3.1 to XOOM users residing in countries that don’t happen to be the United States. Among other things, the…
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Motorola XOOM users recently received a software update which brings Android 3.1 to their tablets. The software update offers better OpenGL graphics performance, an improved task switcher, and resizeable home screen widgets, among other things. But one thing it does not offer is a fix for the broken microSD card slot. Motorola has been selling the XOOM since February, but…
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Toshiba has announced the launch of a new type of flash storage which is either a huge step forward… or back. The company’s new Write-Once SD card can store up to 1GB of content. But you can only load it up once. After that you can’t erase or rewrite the card. In other words, Toshiba has just re-invented the CD-R….
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The Motorola XOOM may be one of the most powerful Android tablets on the market today thanks to its 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, high resolution display, and Android 3.0 operating system. But Motorola bizarrely shipped the tablet with an SD card slot that doesn’t actually recognize SD cards. As luck would have it, a group of…
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It hasn’t even been a year since the SD Association announced its UHS-I spec for higher-speed digital memory cards, but the group is pushing ahead with their next big thing. UHS-II has been unveiled at CES 2011, and the update will bring a significant speed boost to next-gen SD cards. Transfer rates will be up to 300% faster, and it…
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I remember when I got my first 16MB SD/MMC card and marveled at how much storage space a flash card the size of a postage stamp could hold. That was about 10 years ago. A lot has changed in the past decade, and today Lexar has announced it’s launching the first Class 10 128GB SD card, as well as a…
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Sure, Toshiba just got around to launching its super-fast SDHC UHS-I cards with read speeds up to 95MB/s yesterday. But that’s nothing. The SD Association has approved a new standard that could lead to flash memory cards with read speeds up to 300MBps. The new SD cards will be the same size as current SDHC cards, but they’ll feature a…
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It’s been a few months since the SD Association approved the new UHS-I standard for speedier flash memory cards. Now we’re starting to see actual products based on the spec head to market. Toshiba has introduced a new line of SDHC UHS-I memory cards which are do to start shipping in November. The cards will have read speeds up to…
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Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some way to tell whether certain USB flash drives or memory cards were faster than others just by looking at them? The SD association (the folks who oversee the specs for SD cards) certainly think so, and they’re rolling out a little change to help clear things up. The new UHS-I specification and…
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I still remember the first SD card I ever purchased. It was around 9 or 10 years ago, and that roomy 16MB SD card let me fit an extra 4 songs on my MP3 player! I forget what I paid for it, but that SD card probably cost me close to $40. For that kind of money, you can get…
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