Ever felt the craving to pack your smart device with enough storage capacity to store all your luggage, games and DVD collections? Well, today is your lucky day cos SanDisk is gallantly riding to your rescue.
SanDisk, the storage company nearly everyone must have at least heard of or handled its ubiquitous Flash storage devices, has just launched two goodies for Indian tech consumers. They are the 256GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-1 Premium Edition card and the SanDisk Ultra Dial Drive m3.0 pen drive, with both possessing USB and micro-USB connectors.
The enormous 256Gb Ultra micro-SDXC UHS-1 card is just the thing Android movie and game buffs have been looking for, as it will enable the installation and use of a truly staggering number of apps, videos, music and pretty well anything you please. Additionally, you can use it to record up to 24 hours of full-HD video without worrying about exhausting its capacity or its capability to handle such strenuous tasks. Data transfer speeds are impressive and rated at 95MBps. It gets way better as the card is also advertised as being waterproof, shockproof, temperature proof, X-ray proof and nearly everything except bullet proof. It will be available as from next month, exclusive to Amazon, with a price of Rs, 13,390. Later, wider availability is expected on other offline and online retailers.
It’s pretty partner in crime, the SanDisk Ultra Drive m3.0 is also an Android user delight. It comes with two physical connectors: a standard USB 3.0 Type-A and a micro-USB port, more commonly found on smartphones. It, therefore, allows for USB-OTG functionality with suitable Android phones and tablets as well as the seamless transfer and sharing of files to and fro any suitable device to any PC. The drive additionally features a sliding design which conveniently covers and protects either connector always, as well as being able to be used on any key-chain. Available storage capacity ranges from 16GB, 32GB, 64GB to a gargantuan 128GB. Transfer speeds are rocket fast at 150MBps when utilizing the USB-3.0 connector. It will be available on Flipkart only for the time being, with other online and offline retailers to stock it later on. Prices range from Rs. 650 for the 16GB model to Rs. 3,600 for the 128GB ogre.
Both products additionally come covered with a 5-year manufacturer warranty and can be used with the extremely versatile SanDisk free Memory Zone app for Android.