The weekly roundup of the web’s best tech news includes- Review of Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT SATA6 Desktop Hard Drive ST32000641AS, Review of Two USB 3.0 34mm Expresscards, Review of USB 3.0 GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 PCI Express Card GA-USB3.0, Acer to launch super thin frameless notebook, Verizon Expects Release of First 4G Handsets for Mid-2011 and an End to Unlimited Data Plans, Recycled Steel Optimus Prime Transformer is Popular With the Ladies, Portable Wikipedia Device and Droid Cell Phone.
Review of Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT SATA6 Desktop Hard Drive ST32000641AS
The majority of PC users out there have regular mechanical hard drives in their computers, it’s going to be a long time before SSDs replace them. Hard drive companies like Seagate know this and they’re not going to stop improving the technology, with the introduction of the new SATA 3 interface we’re starting to see hard drives to go with it. The first company out the door with one was Seagate, and it’s a big one coming in at 2 Terabytes in size called the Barracuda XT, and that’s what I’ve got for review today.
Read more at Testfreaks.com
Review of Two USB 3.0 34mm Expresscards
Hello hello! Today I have a double review for you of two products that are very similar., they both provide the same functionality but they’re just a little different. USB 3.0 is here finally, we’re seeing motherboards coming equipped with it and you can even buy PCIE add-in cards as well for your computers. One thing though I’ve noticed is that there aren’t many notebooks that are USB 3.0 capable yet, and let’s face it getting a new laptop just for USB 3.0 is an expensive prospect.
Read more at iGadgetlife.com
Review of USB 3.0 GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 PCI Express Card GA-USB3.0
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is here and it’s going to eventually replace the again USB 2.0 specification just like USB 2.0 did with USB 1.1. If you want to get UBS 3.0 you’ve got limited choices right now, really only two ways to go. The first is finding a motherboard that is equipped with USB 3.0, they’re rather expensive right now and there aren’t really many to choose from. That route is costly in both time and money really. The second route you could take to adopt USB 3.0 is with something like I have for review today, a USB 3.0 PCIE card that will quickly and easily add USB 3.0 capabilities to your system.
Read more at Bonafidereviews.com
Acer to launch super thin frameless notebook
Acer is working on a super thin notebook which comes with a very unique feature i.e. frameless, which has no back casing. This Acer ultra thin notebook is said to hit the market sometime in second half of 2010. And it’ll come with a touch keyboard and use back of the panel’s glass substrate as the cover.
Read more at Techchee.com
Verizon Expects Release of First 4G Handsets for Mid-2011 and an End to Unlimited Data Plans
US carrier, Verizon’s CTO Anthony Melone has identified that next summer will be the carrier’s release window for its first LTE handset, which is expected to include the faster than 3G, 4G.
Read more at Gaj-it.com
Recycled Steel Optimus Prime Transformer is Popular With the Ladies
Let’s pretend for a moment that you’ve never watched the Transformers movies, and so you’ve always wondered what exactly a real life Transformer would look like. Couple that with a green angle so that he’s made out of recycled steel, and you get this 2.5 meter tall Autobot warrior. Apparently Optimus Prime doesn’t spend all of his time fighting Decepticons and spitting out clever one-liners like “My bad,” he also keeps along a retinue of scantily clad women wherever he goes. Giant robots need love too after all, right?
Read more at walyou.com
This is an interesting device, which simply has to be very handy to anyone that holds it. The reason for this is because it contains the entire English content of the famous Wikipedia; the content is estimated at being something in the region of about three million entries.
The device has a three and half inch screen; the user can scroll through the pages with ease by using the finger to go up or down. All of this data is stored on one 4 Gb microSD card and to make sure that the data is kept to date there are free updates available over the internet.
Read more at zedomax.com
Also known as Sholes, the Motorola Droid was finally launched in the summer of 2009. Even if this Droid cell phone is not very popular and there are many people who never heard anything about it, it promises to be a strong rival for the famous iPhone. Why Motorola Droid? Well, it is called Droid because it runs an excellent Android 2.0 operating system which is faster than many other smartphones on the market. With a price of only $199 the Motorola Droid is bound to have a great success.
Read more at Techpin.com
