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We’ve got plenty of options for would-be Cyber-shot owners coming out of the Sony press event, so let’s get right into it, eh? For those with a little money to burn, the DSC-HX5V and DSC-TX7 compact digital stills rock full HD (1920 x 1080 60i) AVCHD video, Backlight Correction High Dynamic Range (said to improve shooting in low light) and that world famous TransferJet (perfect for moving data back and forth between all those new Sony Memory Sticks and Vaio F Series notebooks). The former includes GPS + Compass and Optical SteadyShot with Active Mode, while the latter has a slim, swanky form factor. On the lower end of things, the DSC-W370 and DSC-W350 are 14MP shooters, while the DSC-W330, DSC-W310, and DSC-S2100 rock a longer zoom and wide-angle lenses. Speaking of that world famous Sweep Panorama, both the W370 and W350 Cyber-shot models can take up to 243 and 268-degree pictures, respectively, “in one easy press-and-sweep motion.” And no, this ain’t even the best part, for all the new Sony cameras support both dual-SD and MemoryStick. You’re pretty stoked, right? Prices, release dates, and PR after the break.

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LAS VEGAS — Amidst the flouncy, high-glamour at CES, where handsome middle managers trade business cards with other handsome middle managers, Eye-Fi has made a solid, down-to-earth product announcement. The Eye-Fi Pro X2 is the same old Wi-Fi equipped SD card, only everything has been dialed up to eleven.

The only problem with the Eye-Fi cards has been speed, or a lack of. While they were just great for normal use, the write speeds were nowhere near fast enough for the demanding DSLR user. This has been fixed, and the X2 has Class 6 read/write speeds, which means a minimum transfer speed of 6 MB/s. The Wi-Fi is faster, too, with 802.11n inside.

These hardware bumps are enough to make the 8GB card worth talking about, but there is an interesting new software feature, called Endless Memory Mode. This deletes images from the card after they have been successfully uploaded, freeing up card space and effectively turning the card into an infinite buffer for wireless, tethered shooting.

Add in RAW support and ad-hoc networking, which lets you send images direct to a computer without a router in-between and this is a rather useful addition to your camera bag. $150. Now we just need the Compact Flash version. C’mon, Eye-Fi!

Eye-Fi Pro X2 [Eye-Fi. Thanks, Gina!]

Last year was a relatively quiet one for Clickfree after it showed its cards at CES 2009, but it’s clear the company is looking to start 2010 off with a bang here in the desert. The recently updated C2 backup drive is seeing a significant overhaul at CES, with the C2N acting as a portable backup drive for any computer on your home network. The C2N drive is the company’s first to boast its BackupLink technology, which enables all of your networked machines (Macs and PCs) to be backed up automatically; of course, you’ll only be backing up between 250GB and 640GB of information, but we’re told that larger models are expected later in the year. Next up is the Network Edition of the Transformer, which is apt to be entirely more useful for those of you with capacious USB hard drives already looking for work. Essentially, this touts the same functionality as the aforementioned C2N, but it connects to any USB hard drive rather than providing a drive of its own. Finally, the Traveler SD is a 32GB Secure Digital card with the Clickfree backup software baked in; as you might imagine, this enables computer backups to take place on a card reader, which just might be the perfect solution for travelers who haven’t any room for a spare HDD. You can expect to find all three on store shelves between March and April, with pricing set for $159.99 (250GB) $179.99 (320GB), $199.99 (500GB and $219.99 (640GB) for the C2N, $99.99 for the Transformer Networ Edition and $89.99 (16GB) / $149.99 (32GB) for the Traveler SD card.

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Believe it or not, we first heard of SDXC nearly a year ago. Aside from a highly guarded chip spotted at CeBIT, though, we’ve yet to see any of those cards in the flesh. Thankfully for the impatient among us, it seems as if the SD Specification 4.0 is well on its way to being hammered out, with the maximum data transfer rate scooting up from 104MB/sec to 300MB/sec. The actual scheme will also be changing from parallel to serial, with an unspecified amount of pins (more than 9, though) assisting in the speed increase. We’re also told that the external dimensions of the cards will remain the same, and that backwards compatibility is of the utmost importance. We’re guessing that newer cards will be able to rely on parallel transfers when used on older readers, while newer readers will accept data via the serial scheme; unfortunately, the nitty-gritty details have yet to be made public, but we’re hoping for a serious coming-out party at next year’s CES.

Next-generation SD specification comes to light, 300MBps just around the corner originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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