New Mobile Phone Flash Memory Format Announced by Pretec

[Mike Temporale]

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=4188

"Pretec Electronics Corp. is introducing a new generation of flash memory card and module called C-Flash. With physical size of 17mm x 12mm x 1.0mm, about 1/3 the volume of RS-MMC or miniSD, C-Flash is one of the smallest form factor flash memory cards in the world, competing with the Transflash format. The new card also supports smart card (SIM card) technologu, allowing multimedia mobile phones utilizing C-Flash to use a smaller footprint for the memory card allowing for new designs not previously possible."



Enough with the new memory formats already. :evil: How many different types of removable memory do we need? Pretec will provide various different adapters allowing you to use C-Flash memory in SD, miniSD, MMC, and USB, to name a few. And while that's great, it doesn't allow me to use my existing memory cards in any device that comes out supporting just the C-Flash format. Once again, I'll need to buy all new memory cards. :roll:

[Mike Temporale]

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=4188

"Pretec Electronics Corp. is introducing a new generation of flash memory card and module called C-Flash. With physical size of 17mm x 12mm x 1.0mm, about 1/3 the volume of RS-MMC or miniSD, C-Flash is one of the smallest form factor flash memory cards in the world, competing with the Transflash format. The new card also supports smart card (SIM card) technologu, allowing multimedia mobile phones utilizing C-Flash to use a smaller footprint for the memory card allowing for new designs not previously possible."



Enough with the new memory formats already. :evil: How many different types of removable memory do we need? Pretec will provide various different adapters allowing you to use C-Flash memory in SD, miniSD, MMC, and USB, to name a few. And while that's great, it doesn't allow me to use my existing memory cards in any device that comes out supporting just the C-Flash format. Once again, I'll need to buy all new memory cards. :roll:

[vincenzosi]

Just on a lark, I decided to see how many of my current devices use the same memory standard.

The answer? None.

My PPC uses SD/MMC and CF.

My digicam uses Smartmedia.

My Old MP3 player uses Smartmedia also, but 3.3v Smartmedia.

My phone uses MiniSD.


I'd love to say that at some point this is going to get better, but it just seems to keep getting worse.