Comments on: USB-based Micro Flash Drive Coming Soon

SNE has announced the release of ThumbDrive, a tiny Flash card that plugs into any USB port. ThumbDrive will be available in 16MB ($57), 32MB ($95), 64MB ($159), and 128MB ($310) versions, and will be available direct from SNE's Web site. SNE said it is preparing 256MB and 512MB ThumbDrives for release later this year, and a 1GB drive in 2001. SNE is promising drivers for the Palm OS later this year, though it isn't clear how this will work, as no Palm currently has a USB port. Is this a hint that future Palms will have a USB port?

UPDATE: More about the ThumbDrive can be found here: www.thumbdrive.com

 Visor Has USB Support

Maven @ 4/28/2000 6:00:07 PM #

...though you'd have to rig up a connector

 RE: Visor Has USB Support

Robert Zach @ 4/28/2000 9:16:56 PM #

Doesn't the Handspring Visor Modem SpringBoard module have a USB port in it...and isn't the SixPack SpringBoard module also supposed to have a USB port...

Seems these would be GREAT places for a ThumbDrive?

 RE: It does?

Ed @ 4/28/2000 11:18:42 PM #

Here's Handspring's description of the modem in question. No mention of USB.
http://www.handspring.com/products/mmodem.asp

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Here's the description of the SixPack Combo Card. It does a lot but not USB.
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 RE: Visor Has USB Support

mikecane@wildmail.com @ 4/29/2000 5:55:46 PM #

The USB port on the Visors are where the serial port is on classic Palms: the bottom/rear connections. With a driver, it would be possible to use such a "thumbdrive" as there is currently -- from Germany, I think -- some sort of solid state storage for classic Palms that uses the serial connection. mc

 usb ...nice

ulk @ 4/29/2000 3:49:43 PM #

USB ports would be great, always wanted to plug web/digicams in, and would be useful for printing via usb printers, heck you coukd even use a usb mouse ;) though keybourd support could well prove popular. Hehe....with a usb=>com converteri could even use my lie detector with the palm :))