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Nokia Embraces SD Card Format

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About time..

corporate

Sep 14, 2004, 1:20 PM
This is awesome, I've been wanting SD support for a long time now (works well with my PPC).

This is almost too late, though - we'll be seeing a lot of hard drive based phones and PDAs in the next 6-12 months, I think. Memory cards are a slowly dying breed, at least in their current state and capacity.
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muchdrama

Sep 14, 2004, 4:14 PM
corporate said:
This is awesome, I've been wanting SD support for a long time now (works well with my PPC).

This is almost too late, though - we'll be seeing a lot of hard drive based phones and PDAs in the next 6-12 months, I think. Memory cards are a slowly dying breed, at least in their current state and capacity.
Fortunately, Nokia is a large enough company and has enough assets to make the transition from SD format cards to miniature hard drives without assuming too much risk.
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Rich Brome

Sep 14, 2004, 11:33 PM
I really don't see hard drives ever becoming that popular in phones. Even the very newest generation micro-size HDDs are still relatively large, expensive, and consume their fair share of power.

At the rate flash memory seems to coming down in price and size, I really don't see hard drives ever cutting seriously into the flash memory market when it comes to phones.

Plus, according to IBM, MRAM could very well overtake both technologies before hard drives have chance to gain any kind of serious footing.
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