Here we have another upcoming mobile battery charger from Buffalo, the BSMPB08CA. Designed specially for your digital camera, this travel-friendly battery charger is equipped with a 4 stage battery level indicator LED light, one USB 5V 1A output port, a micro-USB charging port and a high-capacity 2200mAh rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The BSMPB08CA will go on sale from late August for 3,465 Yen (about $34) in black, white and pink color options. [Product Page]
Buffalo is releasing the portable battery “BSMPB08CA” for digital cameras in late August.
3 regular digital cameras can be charged up with the 2,200mAh rechargeable lithium-ion battery built-in. Other than a digital camera, the portable battery is compatible with devices with a microB terminal such as a smartphone, iPod, game device etc.
Price: ¥3,465
Color: black, white, pink
Size: 72×25×30mm
Weight: 67g
Buffalo is set to drop a new dual-band WiFi router, the WHR-600D. The device is equipped with two built-in antennas, one Internet LAN port, four LAN ports and supports for dual-band WiFi access point (11n/g 2.4GHz – 300Mbps and 11n/a 5GHz – 300Mbps). The WHR-600D will begin shipping from late July for 8,925 Yen (about $91). [Buffalo]
Buffalo is releasing a new card reader “BSCR16UD2 series” that is compatible with 45 different kinds of media such as SD card, microSD, memory stick etc. It will be out in mid July.
Also, it features “Docchimo USB connector”. It’s a USB connector that can be inserted into the USB port smoothly regardless of which sides of the USB connector part is facing up. This makes it fast, easy and smooth.
You can use the product for both Mac and Windows.
Price: ¥1,228 (including tax)
Color: black, white
Size: 17.5×10×75mm
Weight: 16g
Buffalo has introduced a new Bluetooth 3.0 keyboard ‘BSKBB19BK’ which is designed specially for your iPad. Powered by a built-in rechargeable Lithium polymer battery, this Bluetooth 3.0 keyboard comes with a 2.4GHz radio frequency (works up to 10 meters), 83 keys and an integrated iPad stand on the rear side of the keyboard, and also serves as a protective cover for your iPad. The BSKBB19BK will start shipping from mid-June for 9,765 Yen (about $100). [Product Page]
Buffalo has showed off another one of its upcoming wireless LAN cordless handset, the WI-U2-433DM. Corresponding to the ‘Draft 11ac’ (the new standard for Wireless LAN IEEE802.11ac), the WI-U2-433DM comes with a USB 2.0 connection interface and supports for dual-band WiFi access point (2.4GHz – 150Mbps and 5GHz – 433Mbps). The WI-U2-433DM will hit the market in July for 4,410 Yen (about $44). [Buffalo]
Buffalo is preparing to launch a new Bluetooth 3.0 keyboard, the BSKBB13BK. Powered by 2x AAA batteries, this compact keyboard features a 2.4GHz radio frequency (works up to 10 meters), 86 keys, NFC pairing function and is compatible with Bluetooth 3.0 enabled devices. The BSKBB13BK will go on sale from mid-June for 8,400 Yen (about $84). [Buffalo]
Buffalo is releasing Bluetooth 3.0 compliant portable keyboard “BSKBB19BK” for iPad in late June.
When using the keyboard, you are able to use the attached cover as an iPad stand to set the iPad against and to use the iPad as if you were using a regular laptop. When not using the keyboard, the cover becomes a portable protection cover in your bag.
“BSKBB19BK” has English keyboard layout that is suitable for iPad, and has 15 kinds of functions such as copy, paste, and cut set to function keys, which increases its operation performance.
Because of its built-in lithium polymer battery, once it’s fully charged, the battery life will last for about 2 months.
Price: ¥9,765 (including tax)
Size: 277×24×195mm
Weight: 460g
Buffalo has unveiled another one of its upcoming 2-port AC outlet USB charger, the BSMPBAC03. This travel-friendly USB charger has two USB 5V output ports (3A maximum output), a status LED in each port for checking the current amount is installed and comes with a retractable plug that plugs directly into a household AC outlet. The BSMPBAC03 will hit the market from mid-June for 3,780 Yen (about $37) in black and white color options. [Buffalo]
Buffalo has revealed its latest external drive, the DriveStation DDR HD-GDU3, slotting more RAM into the USB 3.0-connected enclosure so as to rival SSD speeds, allegedly, with HDD pricing. The new drive, available in 2TB and 3TB capacities, uses traditional spinning-platter disks to keep prices down, but Buffalo claims that thanks to a combination of caching and other tweaking it’ll reach write speeds of up to 400 MB/s.
That’s a pretty impressive number for an HDD-based external drive, if Buffalo can sustain it, while the quoted read rate of 330 MB/s is also ample. In fact, Buffalo claims, it’ll take around 3.5s to shuttle 800MB of photos from a PC to the DriveStation DDR.
So far, high-speed has generally been synonymous with SSD, with solid-state drives cropping up in models like LaCie’s Little Big Disk. That uses not only solid-state storage for performance, but hooks up via Thunderbolt.
Buffalo has stuck with USB 3.0, which is theoretically a “narrower pipe” than Thunderbolt, but arguably makes up for it by being more commonly available (plus backward-compatible with USB 2.0, albeit with a speed hit). It’ll work with both PCs and Macs.
The DDR’s trick is more cache than you’d usually find in an external drive: in this case, 1GB of DDR3 memory. Buffalo is being coy with the details, but says that by buffering files during larger jobs, it can bypass the bandwidth limits of traditional HDDs and push content through the USB 3.0 connection more readily.
We’ll have to wait until we can test the DriveStation DDR out ourselves before we know how accurate that all is – in our experience with drives that use caching systems, we’ve generally found that the performance isn’t necessarily consistent across all content stored. The drive is shipping now, priced at $159.99/£129 for the 2TB model and $209.99/£169 for the 3TB model.
Buffalo DriveStation DDR claims SSD speeds with HDD hardware is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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