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DVR

Incar VR-950

One of the best video quality DVR available at the moment. With Omni Vision 2560×1080 video image sensor (CMOS 1/3″ Omni Vision OV4689, Ambarella A7LA70, 2″ TFT LCD, LiIon 500 mAh, 1080/60p, USB 2.0, HDMI).
Incar_VR-950

Price ~150$
hotline.ua

Official Site:
www.intro-incar.ru

Video Quality
Suuny Day
Sunset
Night

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GSM iphone

Kyivstar 3G in Kyiv

Kyivstar DC-HSPA+ 3G network launched in Ukraine.
Since today (2015-06-16) in Kyiv.

First speed tests looks good:
2015-06-16-Kyivstar-3G-speedtest-net

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Devices

5 year old Ink Jet Prints

Did some test prints about 5 years ago (September 2010) using Ink Jet Printer. Prints was stored inside room without album and with minor expose to sunlight. There is an adhesive tape on a left bottom corner of each photo. To see how impact light compare to air contact. Also top left corner was immersed in water.

Original photo.
GRAND STEP

Printed using: Canon PIXMA iP1900.

5 Years old prints:
Print on HP Premium Premium Plus photo paper. 0.40 $
HP_Photopaper_Premium_plus
Print on Canon Photo Paper Plus II (PP-201) 0.24$
Canon_PhotoPaperPlus_Glossy_PP-201
Print on Canon Photo Pro (PR-101) ~ 1$ (not available now)
Canon_PhotoPaperPro_PR-101
Print on Canon Photo Pro Plus II (PR-201) ~ 1$ (not available now)
Canon_PhotoPaperPro_II_PR-201

Need to mention that HP Everyday photopaper (not participating in test) was faiding out like that in about 6 months.

others less expensive

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Devices

Gigabyte BRIX i7-5500

New Gigabyte BRIX GB-BXi7-5500 is the only nettop available now on Ukrainian market with Intel Core i7 CPU. Intel NUC 5i7RYH still not there. Therefore, I decide to get Gigabyte BRIX i7-5500 and among other compare it to my old Intel NUC D54250

Box

GB-BXi7-5500 BOX

Device

It is actually very similar to Intel NUC.
GB-BXi7-5500 front
GB-BXi7-5500 back

Categories
Devices SSD

Samsung SSD 840EVO 1TB

New 1TB SSD from Samsung. For mSATA. Very small.
Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA
Speed test by CrystalDiskMark 3
Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA 1 TB CrystalDiskMark 3
Speed test by CrystalDiskMark 4
Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA 1 TB CrystalDiskMark 4

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GSM

3mob, Kyivstar, MTS and others in portmone.com

Update from 2023-04-19. Some links updated, some with the fee right now

To avoid extra transactional fee using VISA or MasterCard top-up of Ukrainian mobile operators (Kyivstar, MTS, 3mob) next direct link to Portmone and branded pages may be in use:

3Mob
https://www.portmone.com.ua/r3/uk/3mob

https://www.portmone.com.ua/r3/en/3mob

Kyivstar
https://www.portmone.com.ua/r3/new-kyivstar/ 
MTS

https://pay.vodafone.ua/en/top-up

https://www.portmone.com.ua/r3/mts/

Life

https://oplata.lifecell.ua/en

https://www.portmone.com.ua/r3/lifev2/
Intertelecom (CDMA Ukraine)
https://www.portmone.com.ua/r3/intertelecom/

Пополнение счета МТС, Киевстар, 3Моб, Life и Интертелеком

Categories
Flash SD

SanDisk Ultra MicroSDXC 128 GB UHS-1

Now 128 GB MicroSDXC available.

SDSDQUAN-128G-G4A

CrystalMark results

128GB_Sandisk_MicroSD_speed_

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GSM

3G tender results

3G Spectrum Licenses Tender is over. All GSM providers got IMT-2000 UMTS frequencies.

Start prices (millions of UAH) was:

lot 1 lot 2 lot 3
Astelit 2702,5 2702,5 2702,5
Kyivstar 2705,0 2710,0 2700,0
MTS 2708,0 2715,0 2705,0

final prices (millions of UAH):

Astelit 3355,4
Kyivstar 2705,0 2710,0 2700,0
MTS 3220,0 2715,0

Now licensed 3G bands looks like:

Company Astelit 3Mob MTS Kyivstar
RF band 1920-1935
2110-2125
1935–1950
2125–2140
1950-1965
2140-2155
1965-1980
2155-2170

UAH/USD official exchange rate 28.29 (real about 31.50)

 

Categories
Devices Wi-Fi

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260

Wireless speed of Intel NUC with DualBand (TX/RX 2×2) 802.11ac Wi-Fi + Bluetooth Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260.

Access point Apple Time Capsule AC. results:

2.4 GHz (802.11n)
3962170797

5 GHz (802.11ac)
3963199458

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Devices Flash

Some USB 3.0 flash drives speed comparision

Verbatim Store N Go Mini Metal USB 3.0 32GB
Patriot Memory Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 32GB
SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 32GB

Verbatim_32_150px Patriot_32_150px SanDisk_32_150px
Read speed
Sequential Read (MB/s) 130.534 171.560 202.369
Random Read 512KB (MB/s) 117.856 137.535 154.432
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) (MB/s) 6.666 8.750 15.531
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) (MB/s) 6.881 8.127 11.704
Write Speed
Sequential Write (MB/s) 29.276 51.995 113.030
Random Write 512KB (MB/s) 20.669 1.678 30.921
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) (MB/s) 0.582 0.215 9.074
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) (MB/s) 0.490 0.234 2.951