“The SD Association, the body representing manufacturers of SD memory cards, announced SDXC, its next-generation (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification, providing for up to 2 terabytes storage capacity and SD interface read/write speeds up to 104 megabytes per second this year, with a road map to 300 megabytes per second,” Stuart Corner reports for iTWire.
“At its maximum 2TB capacity, an SDXC memory card will store an estimated 100 HD movies, 480 hours of HD recording or 136,000 fine-mode photos,” Corner reports.
“Also at CES, wireless chip developer Atheros demonstrated WLAN technology that will allow client devices such as PCs, handsets, cameras, MP3 players, wireless printers and set-top boxes to connect directly to other each other without the use of a WiFi access point,” Corner reports. “It added: ‘This technology also provides smartphones with soft [WiFi access point] capability, which supports multiple clients…and will become an industry standard within the next year.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
Of course, your phone will still have a bandwidth cap, so you’ll be able to access and download WAY faster, but only for the first couple of days each month.
Once you go over, you’re speed is either severely downgraded (ie, slower than 2G now) OR you are paying $$$/every megabyte over their cap.
I will be able to store the entire 2025 version of Wikipedia on one SD card! Can’t wait….well guess I gotta wait till 2025 but after that….!
ATT will keep their unlimited data plans…
if ever Apple was interested in getting into the netbook, it would be to leverage this technology.
Lets look at the evidence:
1) Apple is creating a full featured yet light weight version of OS X (snow leopard)… perfectly suited for netbooks
2) Apple is pushing its way into cloud computing
3) Apple needs technologies to push large amounts of data wirelessly and now has it with this technology
For that, I would upgrade from my first gen iPhone
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And of course apple wont jump on board for this “industry standard” .
skate to where the puck will be.
Like I said- the iPhone is setting ready to replace the iMac. Reason for the display port interface.
WLAN sounds great on paper. But honestly, it’s going to be a nightmare to setup.
Having a hub, means that all devices must obey that hub/router’s protocol, ie DHCP. If you want to do adhoc, you’ll need all sorts of complex algorithms to figure out QOS packets, etc… and by the time the consumer sets one of these things up, s/he’ll end up buying a router.
It’s not going to happen anytime soon. The model we have now is good enough, no point making it shitter…
100 HD movies? For God’s sake, READ A BOOK!!!
The growing capacity of media, like SD cards, is demonstrating that the CD/DVD/Blu-Ray are short lived. This type of technology is likely to reign supreme in the long run.
Only if (or at least helped by)… companies can agree on either DRM free (not likely), or a universal DRM technology.
Of course the data on these is highly susceptible to loss. So I guess we will all have 10 or 20 TB networked storage in our homes too. Where does the madness stop!
exFat? Big mistake. Time will show this…
…Of course the data on these is highly susceptible to loss. So I guess we will all have 10 or 20 TB networked storage in our homes too.
No; we’ll have optical media to back it all up to. Plastic discs such as CDs, DVD, and Blu-ray. They’ll continue to be reliable, robust and, most importantly, extremely cheap, per GB of storage.
As convenient as solid state media is, for random-access type of storage, optical will continue to be the archival solution (along with good old tapes) for a long, long time.
So how is what Atheros doing any different than Apple’s Bonjour?