Samsung Devices with Memory Sticks

Posted By: Ed Friday, August 3, 2001 7:36:54 AM

Samsung and Sony have announced that Samsung will begin adding Memory Stick slots to its future products. A formal agreement hasn't yet been made but they have signed a memorandum of understanding.

While its almost certainly too late to see a MemStick slot on the SPH-I300 Palm-based smartphone, which is expected out in September, the companies did say Samsung would be adding Memory Stick slots to future handhelds.

Samsung also intends to put MemStick slots on digital audio products, digital camcorders, DVDs, mobile phones, PCs, and TVs. Samsung is currently aiming to introduce Memory Stick adapters for their notebook and desktop PCs in the second half of this year. Beginning next year, Samsung’s PC products will be equipped with built-in slots for Memory Sticks.

This is a big victory for Sony in the on-going flash memory war. The company is working hard to have its Memory Stick format become the standard, over its rivals Compact Flash, Smart Media, and Secure Digital/MMC.

As part of this competition, earlier this week Sony dropped the prices for its entire line of Memory Sticks and last month Panasonic made a similar move with its SD cards.

Over the past year, the Memory Stick has gained ground on its rivals, though both Compact Flash and SmartMedia have larger shares of the market.

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This makes me ill.

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 8:00:09 AM #
I wish consumers were more educated on what they're buying into when they purchase Memory Sticks. Sony is just looking for its' chance to be the next Microsoft.

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 9:00:36 AM #
Isn't that the object of going into business. Make a product and sell it? Palm does the same thing with their SD cards.

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 9:02:16 AM #
Except that Sony now allows OEM's of memory sticks. I could care less whether SD, Memory Stick, springboard, CF, MMC, or whatever wins out. All of them are taking steps to be manufactured by multiple companies, all of them are fairly close in functionality and their prices are equalizing as well. I just want *one* standard, I don't care what it is (especially since I've got a visor, which can use all of the above except memorystick).

RE: This makes me ill.
mikecane @ 8/3/2001 9:57:56 AM #
At one time (according to a VisorCentral interview), Innogear (of MiniJam fame) was planning a Springboard to use MS. Did they cancel that project?

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 10:00:48 AM #
Being a photographer myself and a palm/visor/clie whatever user, I prefer the compact flash format since that's what the majority of professional digital cameras use for photojournalism. Memory stick from what I seen doesn't cut it. I think Sony is barking up the wrong tree in trying to make memory stick the ultimate standard.

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 11:49:25 AM #
Technology is always changing. I think even the professionals will soon see the advantage of a storage format that is significantly smaller than CF. Heck, even pretty soon the lines between professionals and amateurs will be blurring.

People said they were barking up the wrong tree with the 3.5" floppy, the CD, the Mini Disc, the DAT. Look what happened to those. 3.5" flopps is self-explanatory. CD is as well. Mini Disc is overwhelmingly popular in Asia and Europe. The DAT is the format of choice for almost all current recording studios.

Sony is barking up a tree that they hope everyone else will follow. And they've been successful before. No reason to see why they won't again.


RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 3:54:10 PM #
Frankly, I don't understand the bitching about the Memory Stick and frankly I am tired of it.

Memory Stick is a method of storage, just like everything else mentioned in these posts. It is neither better, nor worse than anything else on the market so give it a rest already.

In addition, and regards to a previous post, how does the Memory Stick NOT cut it? What does it NOT do that, say, CF does?

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 6:33:51 PM #
well there aren't that many cool I/O related devices that you can get for CF, springboard and even SD (like that new bluetooth card). If all you want is memory then memory stick is great! Just don't expect to stick a GPS in your clie

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/3/2001 8:50:34 PM #
Granted. I really think that there will be someone who will develop a GPS memory stick when the quarterly sales figures are released on the Clie. It will probably be too expensive anyway.

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/4/2001 12:07:35 AM #
For everyone who thinks that Memory Stick is not going to make it, I provide this quote:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-Thomas Watson Senior, Chairman of IBM, 1943

In time everything will work out, bikering over whose storage system is better is useless, the best, most useful one will survive.

Technology is about looking forward 10 years, not 10 months.

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/5/2001 9:25:04 AM #
Remember guys, what wins is not the technology. It is the popularity. I don't know about in other countries, but in US, I don't think Memory Stick is ever gonna make it through.

I could buy a 128 MB CF for $60 while 64 MB Memory Stick costs more than that. True, MS is much smaller than CF, but I personally wouldn't mind to pay 50% less for something that's slightly larger, but definitely compact in my view.

Microsoft was never the best OS, but it dominates the market and became the standard. In Asia, VCD was the popular because it has S-VHS quality and cheap to make, but in the States it nevers caught up. Why? Because they're never marketed to general public.


RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/5/2001 3:29:57 PM #
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-Thomas Watson Senior, Chairman of IBM, 1943

And Bill Gates said 640KB of memory is enough for PC!

RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/5/2001 3:35:52 PM #
"Microsoft was never the best OS, but it dominates the market and became the standard. In Asia, VCD was the popular because it has S-VHS quality and cheap to make, but in the States it nevers caught up. Why? Because they're never marketed to general public."


Good point!! But it proves American don't have taste. American believe marketing rather than the technical detail, and that is why companies are putting lots money hiring MBA (who knows nothing but lying) and on advertisements. "Our stuff is no good, so what, make the look nice"!!



RE: This makes me ill.
I.M. Anonymous @ 9/8/2001 1:27:14 PM #
There are bluetooth and GPS (and also some great stuff like fingerprint recogniton) for Memory Sticks, just look hard for them.

what do the benchmark tests say?

I.M. Anonymous @ 8/5/2001 12:51:12 AM #
Which is faster at retrieving memory? CF/SD/MMC/MS?

In order to fully capitalize off of the wealth of Palm software, what's needed is more memory =in= the palm and faster processors. I've noticed that the more stuff I put in my 8 meg unit slows everything down.

I think it would be cool to have a 10x speed bump from 20mhz to 200mhz, and a memory bumb from 8meg to 128meg.

Imagine not being limited to what you can have in your palm at one time. Imagine having 100's of programs, games, data, etc in your pocket at all times.

(now I know there's one trg guy in Hong Kong who has a thousand programs on a gig ibm cf microdrive, but I'd really rather not mess with testing programs one at a time to see if they'll work with removeable storage, I'd rather have the storage built in)

RE: what do the benchmark tests say?
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/5/2001 2:14:11 AM #
The more storage there is..the more we will full up the memory and ask for even more memory. The higher speed of the processor, the more bloated and inefficient new programs will be...think Pocket PCs.


RE: what do the benchmark tests say?
I.M. Anonymous @ 8/5/2001 12:39:36 PM #
I'm not asking for more bloat at this time. I'm asking for a unit that can keep up with me using the current software. I use my palm extensively at work doing repetitive tasks like entering records. As I go tapping from screen to screen, I'd like the palm waiting on me and not vice versa. I didn't notice this when I bought my first palm, however as I've become more proficient I do notice the need for speed now.

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