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SanDisk made a number of new flash memory product announcements in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. The company showed a new line of cards for video games, a SD card with built in USB 2 flash drive and announced that their new TransFlash will be used in some upcoming feature phones.

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That's Nice, but...

bigfoot @ 1/10/2005 2:01:51 PM #

I'm still waiting for the 2 Gig Ultra II SD chip they announced last fall!

How about releasing what you promised before announcing new products or announce that the 2 Gig SD is vaporware.

Cheers,

RE: That's Nice, but...

LiveFaith @ 1/10/2005 3:39:27 PM #

Bigfoot,
Had they kept quite about it @ CES, then you would not have an article to comment on.

Pat Horne; www.churchoflivingfaith.com

RE: That's Nice, but...

jasondeno @ 1/11/2005 10:04:11 AM #

I agree. I've been limping along on my 256MB UltraII because the 2GB card was supposed to be out in 'early Q4 2004'. Well its now early Q1 2005 and I'm still waiting.

Unfortunately they pretty much corner the market on SD innovation. It looks like I have little chice but to wait for their product if I want 2GB...

More SanDisk vaporware? Or Tungsten 5 killer?

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 1/11/2005 10:03:05 PM #

More vapors from a craptastic company? Great idea if they can pull it off without making fragile, self-destructing cards.

Makes Palm's whole Tungsten 5 "PDA as file transporter" idea seem pretty weak...

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RE: That's Nice, but...

mikecane @ 1/12/2005 8:34:41 AM #

The *entire point* is that they are breakable. Research has shown people don't lose them enough to keep buying more.

RE: That's Nice, but...

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 1/13/2005 10:57:41 PM #

What "research", Mike?

Bottom line: We'll soon have more storage than almost EVERYONE needs, just as PCs are already more powerful than what research shows 99.997% of users need. Tech companies are victims of their own success and they're failing to find convincing reasons for users to upgrade.

Your four year old CLIE S320 and a 32 MB Memory Stick is as cutting edge as Joe Average needs. This is part of the reason PDAs "jumped the shark" in 2004.

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RE: That's Nice, but...

Gekko @ 1/13/2005 11:09:31 PM #

Dear Voice of a Fool -

Parkinson's Law: "Work expands to fill the time available." Initially postulated to explain workload and time, Parkinson's Law has been applied to and found valid in many realms. "The amount of stuff one has expands to fill available cupboard space" is one familiar application. Information technology also has its applications. Parkinson's Law of data: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage". Parkinson's Law of Bandwidth Absorption: "Network traffic expands to fill the available bandwidth".

By the way, Mike Cane:

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 1/13/2005 11:15:18 PM #

Where are the PalmOS powered micro laptops?

Where are the PalmOS-powered multimedia players (iPod + video player)?

Where are the PalmOS-powered always-connected Internet machines?

Where are the PalmOS-powered cellphones?

These are the kind of devices that could have taken PalmOS to the next level and justified the type of hardware (fast processors, slick screens + huge storage cards) that will be available before the end of 2005.

Sony's UX50, TH55 and VZ90 and Handspring's Treo 600 were several baby steps in the right direction. Now, hardware innovation is dead, taking PalmOS down with it. I think your S320 is a lot better device than any regular PDA pa1mOne is selling right now. Makes me wonder what the he11 people like Jeff Hawkins and Palm's so-called visionaries are doing. Tungsten 5 and Tungsten E2 are products I would only expect from a cynical company that's just trying to milk the remnants of its 15 minutes of fame for all it's worth.

Does ANYONE at Palm actually care about the platform? The silence is deafening. As usual.

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While I praise SanDisk for something good....

vesther @ 1/10/2005 3:48:19 PM #

While I praise SanDisk for coming up with a SD Concept that allows us to use "them" just like we would with a Thumb Drive, they have a lot of catching up to do IMO because I still remember the major controversy behind the "Tungsten T3 the Toaster" days, which a SanDisk card would become destroyed if a SanDisk card is inserted inside a Tungsten T3 and activated--all data would be lost afterwards.

I just don't want another "Handheld the Toaster" episode come new SanDisk SD Card releases, that's the most important thing--Two things that made me despise SanDisk as I know it--Worked well with an m125, but began dying out on my Tungsten T. Lexar-rebranded SanDisk card just "tore apart" after some use--durability issues.

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San Disk cards on Zire72

Anthony1 @ 1/10/2005 6:20:41 PM #

I just bought a SanDisk 1 GB Sd card, and looking around here it looks like alot of people have had trouble on SanDisk cards. Does anyone know how well the Sandisk 1 GB card works on the Zire72?

USB Built-in: Ingenious!

phoneboy @ 1/10/2005 6:52:22 PM #

Sometimes the simplest ideas are...

Bad news for T5 sales...

Captain Hair @ 1/11/2005 1:56:15 AM #

Quote=Sandisk:
SanDisk introduced an innovative SD flash memory card with built-in USB connectivity.
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Well, yet another T5 feature struck down (flash drive). And yet another nail in the T5's lead casket, assuming this makes it to the market. I know I'll buy one in a heartbeat.

"People who think they're smart annoy those of us who are."

RE: Bad news for T5 sales...

smap77 @ 1/11/2005 11:44:28 AM #

If the idea is that this was "introduced" with a screenshot from Solidworks (and they didn't even have a physical prototype), I would guess that Q1 '05 is quite ambitious. Any CAD-jock could mock up that shot in 2 hours.

RE: Bad news for T5 sales...

Captain Hair @ 1/11/2005 3:16:01 PM #

True, but this SD/USB card would sell like hotcakes if they market it well enough.

"People who think they're smart annoy those of us who are."

RE: Bad news for T5 sales...

vesther @ 1/12/2005 1:25:42 PM #

About the SanDisk SD Card with USB Connectivity, I just don't want yet another episode of toasted cards again, as I have realized that much of the cards SanDisk produce are of inferior quality.

If the quality of these newer SanDisk SD Card turn out to be inferior, then it looks like their ideas might backfire...

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