SanDisk Reveals Tiny New Memory Cards for Phones
Stupid idea!
With users of the P800 and P900 discovering to their horror that these phones cap the memory stick memory to a max of 128Meg, we now have yet another miniature storage 'standard' that offers nothing new and in fact sends us backwards. People want at least a Gig of storage for contact info, music, photos and even computer backups. And the physical size of this new media is pointless. For a phone to be practical, it needs to be of a certain physical size and today's storage media such as Memory Stick (full size), SD Card and even compact flash offer massive capacity and would fit in most phone form factors. This is once again an example of the industry trying to introduce a new format for their own profit. SD card is the most aesthetically ple...
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If you read the article, it states that INITIAL capacity. Just like hwen SD first came out it only had 8, 16 and 32 meg. Now if 32 was the largest and now its up to 512... what about this starting at 128 and in the future possibly 512...1024 etc... I'd personally like 128 in my phone. Wwould a gig be better... yeah..cost efficient for me...NO who the hell needs a gig in their phone when the pictures and ringtones are only 20-50kbs. Thats(if i do my math right) 100-100000 things.. just 2 years ago palms only had 4mb and that held 6000 contact and 5 years of appointments. So 128 in a phone is more than enough.. let's face it.. how many people keep their phones over a year? Not me.. so why spend for the extra memory that you wont even use! Just...
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