SanDisk bumps memory card capacities

Today SanDisk hit us with three separate capacity boosting announcements. First, they doubled the capacity of their Extreme III Cards for professional digital photographers. Available in March, the new cards include the Extreme III 8GB CompactFlash for $560, the $200 2GB SD, and the 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo for $420 green. The CF and SD cards both feature a minimum read/write speed of 20 MB/sec while the Memory Stick PRO Duo cards manage 19MB/sec minimum read and write speeds. Likewise, SanDisk also announced a capacity doubling 2GB SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus Card (pictured) due in June for $135. Lastly, SanDisk announced their high-speed 4GB Ultra II Memory Stick PRO Duo card available in March for $240. Thanks for the updates SanDisk, and more importantly we appreciate you not introducing any new memory card formats on us.

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i-mate's PDA-N Windows Mobile Pocket PC with GPS

The HTC Galaxy wasn't ever much of a looker, and i-mate's branding and color scheme for their new PDA-N isn't helping much, but all the Windows Mobile 5.0 and GPS goodness is still here, along with the WiFi, Bluetooth 1.1 and 300MHz processor. Unfortunately mapping software isn't included, so you'll have to bring your own in order to fully enjoy the GPS capability, but otherwise the Pocket PC is all set to join the recently added i-mate JAMin in the current i-mate crop of Windows Mobile devices.

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