BARCELONA -- Here come the USB-C flash drives.
SanDisk announced at Mobile World Congress a new USB flash drive called the Ultra USB Type-C Flash Drive that uses the new tiny and reversible USB-C connector.
The flash drives are compatible with new computers like Apple's new MacBook,Google's Chromebook Pixel 2 and Dell's XPS 12, XPS 13, XPS 15 and Latitude 7000 series laptops, which all sport the new USB-C port.
Users will get USB 3.1 performance with read speeds of up to 130MB/s for the 16GB flash drive and up to 150MB/s for the 32GB to 128GB drives.
SanDisk also says the new USB-C flash drives work with the SanDisk Memory Zone app available for Android devices. When the drive is inserted into an Android device with a USB-C port, the app automatically launches to let users manage their files. There aren't many Android devices with USB-C ports available yet -- OnePlus 2,Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P and the Nextbit Robin come to mind -- but expect that to change this year when smartphone makers embrace the port.
SanDisk's new flash drives are available immediately at major retailers including Amazon. The drives are priced accordingly: $20 (16GB), $30 (32GB), $50 (64GB) and $80 (128GB).
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