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WiQuest Media Event Hints Imation's New WUSB Drive

  September 17th, 2008



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A rather grim economy outlook doesn't stop WUSB advocates from making a big push for Certified Wireless USB. Tomorrow at Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City, WiQuest will be hosting a media event showcasing a number of Wireless USB products - in fact only the ones that are powered by the company's reference designs. Among them are Dell's WUSB notebooks, D-link WUSB hub, Kensington WUSB video docking station, and surprisingly, Imation Apollo Pro WX WUSB hard drive.

It would be interesting to see how the Imation performs as it would be first ever retail native WUSB personal area storage device. Anything below 20MB/s would certainly guarantee a wave of bad reviews. Even if the drive is proved to be fast enough for incremental backup, it still needs to boost good wireless range to be of practical use. The drive however could cost in excess of $150 (w/o a drive), at which price would still be a tough sell during the current economic climate.

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