There's a rumor going around Weibo that Samsung and SK Hynix will provide 512GB storage disks for the iPhone 8, or the "iPhone Edition."
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Toshiba chip business sale back to square one after SK Hynix hostility
The South Korean rival, which would've only operated the business, was reportedly looking for equity, too — a no-go for Toshiba.
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Apple USB-C dongles on sale through end of the year
It’s expected that USB Type-C ports will be the future of any connected accessory. Today is not the future. And Apple has been unforgiving in helping its customers make the transition over by not including adapters and USB-C accessories with its new MacBook Pro, a computer with four Thunderbolt 3.0 slots.
After much gnashing of the teeth, the company has relented and is offering discounts on dongles sold through its physical and online stores until December 31. Here are a list of them:
- USB-C to full USB: $9 ($10 off)
- Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2: $29 ($20 off)
- USB-C to Lightning, 1 meter cable: $19 ($6 off)
- USB-C to Lightning, 2 meter cable: $29 ($6 off)
- USB-C to HDMI and USB: $49 ($20 off)
- USB-C to VDA and USB: $49 ($20 off)
Third-party USB-C accessories are also on sale by up to 25 percent, except for the SanDisk SD carder — it’s now $29 from its original price of $49.
Here is Apple’s statement on why it’s offering this sale as found through The Verge:
“We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition. We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem. Through the end of the year, we are reducing prices on all USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 peripherals we sell, as well as the prices on Apple’s USB-C adapters and cables.”
Infinite Loop’s transition prerogative isn’t completely consistent with industrial realities reflected in cameras that use SuperDrive-compatible cards as well as its own iPhones and iPads that use the Lightning connector, lest Apple refer to it as a “legacy connector”. The company and its customers either are effectively waiting on the slow wheels of change or maybe it just wants a few cheap bucks from adapter sales.
As for its progressive stance on USB-C, we consider this move a good one overall, no matter how token it may appear — quick stab discounts are fairly uncouth coming from Apple.
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The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast 200th Episode Phone Giveaway!
Is Apple Music deleting your downloaded music? What does Lenovo have up its sleeve for the next generation of Motorola devices? What are we looking forward to at this Google I/O? Plus, we’re giving away TWO phones to celebrate TWO hundred episodes!We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and phone ...
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SanDisk acquired by Western Digital for $19 billion
There’s a lot of bank to made in this memory deal.Western Digital has agreed to buy competitor SanDisk for a total of $19 billion. The acquisition combines two of the largest companies that produce non-volatile memory solutions. Western Digital, which primarily produces hard disk drives, is hoping to grab onto SanDisk’s lead in solid-state technology and microSD cards.The two have more than 15,000 patents issued or pending. SanDisk will continue to collaborate with Toshiba for vertically-integrated ...
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200GB microSD deal lets you supercharge your new phone’s storage on the cheap
Modern flash storage is an almost magical thing: with a little wafer the size of a fingernail, you can double, triple, or easily quadruple the amount of data your phone can store. And while going with as little as an extra 16GB of storage can add $100 to a phone’s selling price, doing a 16GB upgrade post-purchase with a microSD card won’t even cost you $10. But if you’re going to make that kind of investment at all, why not go big? 128GB cards have already been surpassed by 200GB cards, and today we’ve spotted a heck of a deal on them, with Amazon selling
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SanDisk’s 200GB microSD card hits retail
How much storage does your smartphone have right now? 32GB? Maybe 64GB? Or are you a capacity hound who’s taken a phone that’s already packed with tons of internal storage and have augmented that with an extra microSD card for even more space? Earlier this month we told you about the biggest microSD card yet, a 512GB monster (though one with a sky-high $1000 price tag). Second to that, the best option we knew of was the 200GB SanDisk card, announced back during MWC. While quite a bit smaller, this ...
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SanDisk introduces 128GB microSD card for a small fortune
Running out of storage on your smartphone? Is a 64GB microSD card simply not enough anymore? Flash storage company SanDisk aims to fix the dilemma more and more mobile users are facing every day: cramped storage space. The company just unveiled the world’s highest-capacity microSD card in Barcelona, Spain for MWC. SanDisk has doubled the capacity of its impressive 64GB microSDXC cards to 128GB. The cards are said to have double the write speed as your standard microSD card, or 10MBps. In order ...
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TLDR: I can get a 64GB microsd card for under $50, so why are 64GB smartphones so expensive?
Before the iPhone was born, everyone wanted an iPod. Back then you could carry around your entire music collection with you. Today, times have changed. MP3s have gotten larger and higher-quality, and individual songs are now easier to find and much easier to download. Taken together, the size of our music libraries has increased significantly since the “good ol’ days” of the original iPod. Luckily, iPods have improved as well, but now most of us use our smartphones to do that which our iPods used to. Interestingly, a good deal of smartphones still come with only 8GB or ...
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