If you don't recognize this symbol, I would kindly ask you to leave this page, coz it will be very boring for you in that case :)

But most probably you know!! After all, your camera or your phone or your pen drive, at least your mouse / keyboard uses this. Probably the most popular connectivity to your computer so far !!

Did you know that USB 3.0 spec is ready?

If you remember how fast USB 2.0 grabbed the market, this should be an exciting news. Specially if you can transfer4.8 Gbits per seconds where 480 Mbits/s is the current USB 2.0 speed. Consider this, if you try to transfer a 27GB HD movie it will only take 15 minutes with your current USB 2.0 drive, and USB 3.0 will copy jet-fast in only 70 seconds!!! Another example so that you can get the idea that you should now say "woooo", a data drive based on USB 3.0 can move 1G byte of data in 3.3 seconds, compared to 33 seconds with USB 2.0!!

The guys who designed it, noticed the growing number phones and other devices we charge from USB. So now USB 3.0 will provide more efficient, yet more power!!

Well, the cable will be noticably thicker, since USB 3.0 is gonna have 5 more new lines and upload and download lines are no longer the same, rather separate. So I think next time while downloading a big chunk of data to my external drive (well, in my future drive i mean), I can also watch a HD movie without lagging.

Hmm, but for all these we gotta wait until 2010 I guess. Good things come late !!

Gagan