That would be pretty decent for the specs we know so far: 4.5-inch qHD IPS gapless display, MSM8225Q quad-core chip, dual-SIM support, an eight-megapixel main camera (which produced reasonably good photos, from what we could see), a two-megapixel front-facing camera, and Baidu cloud service integration with 15GB of storage for life, plus another 15GB free for one year.
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Storage and battery life have both been doubled: The e-reader stores 4 gigabytes of books (enough for 3, 500 titles) and its battery can last a full month when wireless is turned off, or up to 10 days with its 3G connection turned on.
But it also promised a higher-contrast screen, faster page turning, more battery life and storage and, most importantly, a sleek new design that erases the clunky-looking asymmetry of Amazon's first crack at the gadget.
There's a meter tab that gives you a great view of what the current status of CPU, Battery Life, Memory Storage and Memory program.
With its slim form factor, the "A-Drive" could fit into tablet devices, greatly expanding its storage space while extending battery life by up to 30%.
It offers photos of everything from toilet brushes to storage sheds and real-life tales like that of a Maine angler who fell through the ice this winter and floated to safety on an Action Packer cooler.
"By incorporating Seagate's SSHD technology into our product offerings we are able to address customer demand for greater speed, shorter boot up and response times, optimum storage capacity and better battery life, all at a lower price point, " said Jerry Gross, vice president, Lenovo global procurement.
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None of these storage devices are rated for a life of more than about 10 years although some will live longer and some shorter. 50 years is well beyond that 10 year period.
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And every shoebox, every discarded Manhattan Mini Storage vessel had the potential to change my life.
Another issue is that our insatiable demand for more storage leads to denser storage technologies on media that has a finite life and also leads to our using data and hardware formats that may last for an even shorter time than the media.
Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver more than 400, 000 random write transactions per second, scale up to more than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces.
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Offered in the colour 'Slate, ' it has great battery life and expandable memory for even more storage.
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What now lays in storage is an assemblage of garments that reflects a full life.
Likewise Seagate has greatly improved their personal mobile wireless device, now called the Wireless Plus with up to 1 TB of storage capacity, WiFi access and reported 10 hour battery life.
For users dead set on expanding that capacity, an optional keyboard dock will be made available that not only augments the S2110's storage via full SD slot, but also extends battery life by an extra 10 hours.
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The device has two English language and four translation dictionaries built-in and provides up to two months battery life(with wireless off) and 2GB of storage.
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If that's not enough, Google's ahead of you, and is throwing in 1TB of Drive storage with every Pixel for three years -- what it expects the life of the machine to be.
The updated model doubles the memory to 4GB RAM, expands the hard drive storage to 320GB, and packs a 6-cell battery with a rated life of 6 hours.
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"On-the-go storage and retrieval of digital image files has become a day-to-day fact of life for busy photographers, " said Johannes Bockemuehl-Simon, JOBO's CEO.
It weighs only 185 grams, has a battery life up to one month, and holds up to a thousand eBooks, with storage of up to 30, 000 books with expandable memory.
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