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Seagate have finally joined the SSD segment with their first solid-state drive.  The Seagate Pulsar packs up to 200GB of SLC flash memory into a 2.5-inch enclosure, and the company are claiming 240MB/s sequential read and 200 MB/s sequential write speeds.

The Pulsar has a SATA interface and Seagate have squeezed in some power loss protection so that, even if your system loses power, you’ll hopefully not lose everything you were working on.  They’re also quoting a 0.44 percent AFR (average failure rate).

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While there were several enticing models in the leaked HTC 2010 roadmap yesterday – it’s about time someone released an Android-based candybar with QWERTY, for instance – the most interesting was undoubtedly the HTC Bravo.  The company’s first Android device to use a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, perennial leak grabbers ai.rs have managed to find a better shot of the AMOLED smartphone.

The Bravo has a 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen running at WVGA resolution, together with quadband GSM/GPRS/EGDE and dualband 900/2100MHz WCDMA/HSPA.  Like the HTC HD2 there’s a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and a dual LED flash.  HTC have squeezed 512MB of flash and 320MB of RAM inside, together with a 1,400mAh battery and a microSD card slot.

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There are gobs of Bluetooth headsets for drivers and there are more than a few for motorcyclists as well. For some reason talking on the phone while riding a motorcycle seems more dangerous to me than driving and talking. BlueAnt has announced a new Bluetooth headset called the Stereo F4 interphone motorcycle kit.

The device allows the rider to answer and make phone calls while driving and is fully weather proof. The device is designed to connect to either open face or full-face helmets. The F4 supports A2DP for streaming music from a Bluetooth device.

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In May of this year iBuyPower unveiled its slick new custom painted Chimera gaming PC and it was really cool. The custom paint looked like it would be more at home on a show car than a gaming computer. iBuyPower has now announced the follow up called the Chimera 2.

The Chimera 2 has a new Inferno II chassis with a custom pained flame dragon that looks awesome. The custom computers have wrap around paint covering four exterior surfaces and a charcoal black interior. A range of CPU options is available including Intel Core i7 and i5 processors as well as AMD Phenom II processors.

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Nintendo said it sold more than 550,000 Wii consoles during the week of Thanksgiving, a steep drop from the estimated 800,000 or so the company sold during the same period in 2008.However, the sales figures top Sony, which said it sold 440,000 PlayStations 3s during the same period.

Nintendo also said that it sold more than 1 million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi portable players combined. The combined number tops the all-time handheld hardware sales record set by the Game Boy Advance during Thanksgiving Week 2002, Nintendo claimed.

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