[Rob Alexander]

I'm happy with tiny formats, like transflash, for under-the-battery semi-permanent use, but for working (i.e. removable) memory, SD is about as small as I'd like to go. Anything smaller than that and I'd just end up losing it anyway.

[Rob Alexander]

I'm happy with tiny formats, like transflash, for under-the-battery semi-permanent use, but for working (i.e. removable) memory, SD is about as small as I'd like to go. Anything smaller than that and I'd just end up losing it anyway.

[wshwe]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

I'm curious how you know that - I don't have any proof to disagree, but do you have proof of this?

My slim Sony TH55 has a standard Memorystick slot, not the Duo. The Treo 600 and 650 manage to find space for regular SD slots. I will avoid devices with miniSD, Transflash, MS Duo or xPicture slots.

[webdaemon]

I loved CF when it came out. I thin that is the perfect size for portable flash memory. When SD came out I thought it was too small and to fragile since you can touche the contact points on an SD card and ruin it with the static discharge from your body.

I have a Dell x50v that takes both CF and SD, and I had a x3i that only took SD before that and an x5 that took only a CF before that.

I still prefer CF to anything that has come out since that is smaller. Not only have I ruined one SD card by touching it in the wrong place or in the wrong way, they are so much easier to lose than CF cards.

I know CF cards are more bulky than SD and these newer cards but they are able to take much more abuse than the newer smaller cards.

[wocket]

Orange gave me a Free C500 a couple of weeks ago as an upgrade from the E200. I did'nt even realise it at the time that it used miniSD 8O

So there's me sitting with a new phone looking for the SD slot with the manuals still in wrappers. ops: I really like the idea of having it under the battery. I know i'll never lose it.

So anyway i've been boring people in work showing them a 256mb SD card and then a 256mb miniSD in an SD adaptor and going is'nt that amazing!

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by wshwe

The Treo 600 and 650 manage to find space for regular SD slots. I will avoid devices with miniSD, Transflash, MS Duo or xPicture slots.

The Treo is HUGE compared to my C500 Smartphone, and compared to some of the tiny phones out there, the C500 is pretty big...remember miniSD and Transflash were designed for phones and ultra-small audio playback devices, not PDAs like Treos which have the space for full-size cards.

[lapchinj]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

...remember miniSD and Transflash were designed for phones and ultra-small audio playback devices, not PDAs like Treos which have the space for full-size cards.

Will these smaller cards use card slots like the SD slots now found on PPC's (spring loaded) or will they be laid in like the SIM card found in my Motorola Nextel phone? Are they being made to be handled a lot or just put into the phone and forgotten about?

These small cards give me the same vibs as contact lenses in that they seem big enough to sell but too small to find.

Jeff-

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by lapchinj

Will these smaller cards use card slots like the SD slots now found on PPC's (spring loaded) or will they be laid in like the SIM card found in my Motorola Nextel phone? Are they being made to be handled a lot or just put into the phone and forgotten about?

They're like SIM cards - you put them in and forget about them. They're really not designed to be taken out again and again. Install once and forget about it...so that's why the size doesn't matter much at all.

[wshwe]

Any speed penalty when starting programs residing in internal memory vs. memory cards? There often is in Pocket PCs. Don't know if the same applies to WM Smartphones.

[lapchinj]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

They're like SIM cards - you put them in and forget about them...so that's why the size doesn't matter much at all.

Yeah I could go for that. Then size doesn't matter at all like you said. If they add a slot on the same idea as the Nextel you end up saving a lot of realestate. Having this in a PPC would free up the slots for other things like swapping music cards or add-ons like GPS or barcode readers.

Once they start coming out with multimegabyte cards we'll be able to use our phones for an iPod. Just imagine the ringtones we could get - the entire Beethoven's 5th for an incomming call 8) .

Jeff-