Filed under: Storage

We know that you’ve been barely able to sleep since the new miCARD memory card format was announced — who would be the first manufacturer to get these out the door, you wondered — so you can finally rest easy with the news that Pretec is showing off its own version of the multi-functional little wafers (pictured larger than actual size, of course) at Computex in Taipei. The company’s S-Diamond line already tops off at an impressive 8GB (with theoretical capacities of 2TB, but we’re not holding our breath), and like the flood of other miCARDs soon to hit the market, will work with regular SD/MMC-capable devices through the use of an adapter. Pretec still isn’t being forthcoming with any pricing or release info on these, but since there’s no miCARD-specific hardware on the market yet anyway, we doubt that many of you care.

[Via Everything USB]

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Features, Misc. Gadgets

Day 1 at Computex has drawn to a close and Engadget’s lovely sister site in China was at the heart of the action. First order or business: blow out the booths with all the photos and video they could shoot. Funny enough, even though the show is being held in Taiwan, favored son HTC arrived without their new Touch — go figure. Don’t be shy now, the important bits have all been translated into English. Hell, you might even get lucky and see a girl.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Hi-fi gets a long-overdue splash of colour.

Filed under: Cellphones

If you’ve been keeping a keen eye out on the FCC findings of late, you wouldn’t find it surprising at all that two of Samsung’s latest are officially headed to the US of A. Turns out that the Samsung SGH-T729 and SGH-T419 are both slated to make their US debut on T-Mobile, and while there’s not a whole lot here for the high-end customer, the lower-end crowd should certainly appreciate what they’re packin’. The T729 slider dons a somewhat stylish exterior, 1.3-megapixel camera, 220 x 176 resolution display, sports the SureType keyboard, and reportedly includes BlackBerry Connect as well. The T419 bargain phone doesn’t do much outside of accepting and dialing calls, but does manage to include a 160 x 128 resolution display internally, a simple greyscale LCD on the exterior, a paltry VGA camera, and a hint of the modern world with the inclusion of Bluetooth. No word just yet on pricing nor availability, but at least you’ll know where to look.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

It’s the car of choice for Arnold Schwarzenegger. And now there’s a mobile that goes by the same name…