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Apple iPhone certified for use in Ukraine

Some resarch in ukrainian legislation shows next Apple devices allowed to use in Ukraine:

Apple iPhone 3G (A1241)
Apple iPhone 3GS (A1303)
Apple iPhone 4 (A1332)
Apple iPhone 4S (A1387)

Apple iPad 2 wi-fi (A1395)
Apple iPad 3 wi-fi (A1416)
Apple iPad 2 wi-fi,3G (A1396)
Apple iPad 3 wi-fi,3G (A1430)

Apple Airport Express (A12**, A13**)
Apple Airport Extreme (A12**, A13**)
Apple Airport Extreme (A14**)
Apple Airport time Capsulе (A12**, A13**)
Apple Airport time Capsulе (A14**)

Apple iPod Touch (A1213)
Apple iPod Touch (A1288)
Apple iPod Touch (A12**, A13**)

..also computer, notebooks keyboards and mouses.
Information from registry version 04.10.2012. See full list:
http://www.nkrzi.gov.ua/uk/1297075853/
http://www.nkrzi.gov.ua/img/zstored/File/2012_10/Reestr%20v%202012-21.pdf

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app apple GPS iOS iphone

iOS 6 map with navigation in Kiev

KYLV fixed.

20121005-110418.jpg

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apple iphone

iPhone 5 price in Norway

iPhone 5 price compared with iPhone 4S year ago (about 5% growth because of Norwegian Krone exchange rate changes).

iPhone 4S (2011) iPhone 5 (2012)
16 GB 4890 NOK 5190 NOK
32 GB 5790 NOK 6090 NOK
64 GB 6690 NOK 6990 NOK
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Devices HDD Synology

Synology DS209+ backup to external disk speed

NAS Synology DS-209+ with External Drive Zalman ZM-HE350 U3E (with Seagate ST2000DL003 5900RPM). Compare speed of external connected disk  using USB 2.0 and eSATA.

Read Write
USB 2.0 24 MB/s 22 MB/s
eSATA 125MB/s 100 MB/s

 

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app apple GPS iOS

iOS6: Background navigation

iOS 6 new maps navigation working on background of another application (i.e. Yandex maps). With both voice and text notifications:

See also how it work on locked screen:

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apple iphone Soft

iOS 6 map with navigation in KYLV (Kyiv, Kiev)

Some screenshots of new iOS map application. No traffic info seen on map yet. Navigation is here, but Ukrainian streets names reading is absolutely terrible. And mistake in name of Ukrainian capital (Kyiv) is something very unexpected from Apple product.

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Devices Flash

Sandisk Cruzer USB 2.0 vs SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0

To get understanding of why cheap USB Flash are cheap and some expensive are expensive. Let’s compare two 32GB flash drives from SanDisk. Cheap one is SanDisk Cruzer 32GB SDCZ36-032G. Expensive one is SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 SDCZ80-032G.

Sequential Read (MB/s) 16,452 91,141
Sequential Write (MB/s) 3,828 76,589
Random Read 512KB (MB/s) 16,371 83,097
Random Write 512KB (MB/s) 0,548 6,252
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) (MB/s) 2,788 10,368
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) (MB/s) 1,795 9,994
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) (MB/s) 2,693 9,12
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) (MB/s) 0,22 2,936
Price (approx.) 20$ 40$

 

Speed test done with CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1

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Devices SD

Another SD Cards speed test (Transcend, Sandisk)

Yet another SD cards to test:
Sandisk MicroSD 16GB Ultra
Trnscend SD 32GB Class 10

Sandisk-MicroSD-16GB-UHS1-U30
Sequential Read (MB/s) 20,628 20,216 20,483 17,485 20,161 20.339
Sequential Write (MB/s) 18,589 12,979 20,064 11,23 16,82 8.532
Random Read 512KB (MB/s) 19,633 19,618 20,104 17,781 19,707 19,726
Random Write 512KB (MB/s) 4,911 1,465 1,56 1,858 0,681 6.851
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) (MB/s) 3,223 3,323 3,713 5,01 3,627 3,433
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) (MB/s) 0,046 0,012 1,382 0,017 0,006 1.692
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) (MB/s) 3,937 3,562 3,449 4,976 3,674 3.394
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) (MB/s) 0,049 0,013 0,448 0,018 0,006 0.449

* usual notebook embeded SDHC cardreader was used (without Sandisk proprietary 30MB/s or standard UHS-1 mode support)

tested with CrystalMark 3.0.1

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Devices SD

SanDisk ImageMate SDDR-289 (UHS-1 USB 3.0)

Reading some old posts:

SanDisk Extreme 30 MB/s SD Card
SanDisk SDDR-199
SD Cards test with SDDR-1999

Now I know what was wrong with 30MB/s SanDisk Extreme SD cards. 30 MB/s was not standard bus speed for SD. So it is seems like only (one?) card reader from SanDisk was supporting that speed. And it was not a good idea to buy 30MB/s cards. Actually theoretical maximum speed for normal and high speed SD cards was 12.5 MB/s and 25MB/s (read as 10MB/s and 20 MB/s in real life). And, by the way, USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s) has reallife speed for cardreader/hdd/etc ~ 30 MB/s at maximum.

New SD card standards are UHS-1 with 50 MB/s and 100 MB/s (read as 45 MB/s and 90 MB/s) and UHS-II with 156 MB/s and 312 MB/s.

So now some examples of UHS-1 standard in use:

SanDisk ImageMate SDDR-289 (USB 3.0)

SanDisk 16 GB UHS-1 45MB/s

USB 2.0 is not enough to get 45+ MB/s that is why UHS-* cardreaders must be USB 3.0 or other modern high speed interface.

Card formated to exFAT. Cardreaders setting “optimized for performance” in Windows 7.

USB Reader Card Read MB/s Write MB/s
USB 3.0 UHS-1 UHS-1 45MB/s 39MB/s 24MB/s
USB 2.0 UHS-1 UHS-1 45MB/s 26MB/s 16MB/s
USB 2.0 non UHS-1 UHS-1 45MB/s 18MB/s 14MB/s

Card Formatted to FAT32 by SD Formatter 3.1

USB Reader Card Read MB/s Write MB/s
USB 3.0 UHS-1 UHS-1 45MB/s 36MB/s 32MB/s
USB 2.0 UHS-1 UHS-1 45MB/s 25MB/s 20MB/s
USB 2.0 non UHS-1 UHS-1 45MB/s 18MB/s 17MB/s

speed tested with Flash Memory Toolkit “File Transfer (5MB)”

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app apple iphone

Fieldrunners 2

One of the best tower defence game ever. Fieldrunners 2. For iPhone.

Subatomic Studios