10-13-2003, 02:00 PM
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Secure Digital To Become Leading Format by 2005
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=109711
"According to recent reports by leading industry analyst organizations, the SD Memory Card will gain in global market share and consumer acceptance in 2003, and is well on its way to dominance of the international flash memory market."
Now, this is a press release by the SD Card Association, but if you look around, there are more and more devices each day that have SD support. I can't think of a modern Pocket PC that doesn't have an SD slot. Now, if the SDIO market could get its act together to have one standard that works, we'd be set. 
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10-13-2003, 02:59 PM
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Sage
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Agreed. SD is slowly becoming more and more popular. In the old days, it used to be CF; but not many of the current PPC's use it, nor can use it through cradles and adapters. Like the Ipaq 1915 that I have.. I can only use SD for memory, so obviously, more and more people have to use it, whether they want to or not.
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10-13-2003, 03:11 PM
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Sage
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Where the heck are those bigger MMC cards that some company named ATP was promising? Nothing against SD card as I have 3 of them myself but why do I need to pay for the "SD" when" I don't necessarily need what secure digital does?
UPDATE: Looks like some of those MMC cards from ATP are available.
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10-13-2003, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by CTSLICK
UPDATE: Looks like some of those MMC cards from ATP are available. |
Hey, that's cool. Thanks for the heads up. I assume like SD they'll be compatible with with PPCs, despite the larger size? It seems I used to have a digital camera that only supported memory up to a certain size.
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10-13-2003, 03:46 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Oct 2002
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SD/ MMC.....I don't know what the difference is. If both of them allow me to store files, music, etc. and both fit into the SD slot on my Axim, then I'm going with price. The only reason I own SD is because I thought it was the only option available for the SD slot. I don't even know what the heck "Secure Digital" means. My data is "secure" as long as no one steals my card. I don't want to pay for any "security" features beyond that. If MMC plays my music, stores my files, and does it for LESS money, long live MMC.
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10-13-2003, 04:00 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
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This is largely driven by the camera market abandoning CF and Smart Card for the SD/MMC form factor. I don't think the market is nearly as big for PDA cards as for camera cards. I could be wrong.
Anyway, the same is happening in PDAs. Personally, I can't figure out why all the manufacturers went this way. I prefer CF. But, try to find a PDA that uses it. At best you find them using both slots. The Asus A620 is the notable exception and it proves that size is not the reason to go SD. It is just as small as the Toshiba E300s, Dell Axim X3s, and Viewsonics.
The larger advantage of CF is that there are already a ton of peripherals out for CF AND THEY WORK. Palm, Asus, and others are flatly stating that SDIO is not at all like CF for expansion other than memory.
But, SD is what we are getting. Guess we will just have to deal.
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10-13-2003, 04:03 PM
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Pontificator
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What??? No memory stick? :treadmill:
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10-13-2003, 04:10 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 64
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Wrong! Memory stick is the...
That's wrong :soapbox:
The dominating memory card will be the Memory Stick by Sony. It already is dominating int he PDA and consumer electronics arena.
Roberto
Self confessed Soniasta.
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Just Jocking. SD is the way to go!
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10-13-2003, 04:19 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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I don't really care who has the dominant standard - CF or SD (As ling as it isn't menory stick that is! :roll: ), as long as there IS a dominant standard. Fragmentation is bad with many differnt formats. One bigger market is best - so we can all stock up on the same cards.
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10-13-2003, 05:00 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
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HA HA! Die you memory stick POS! :2gunfire: :snipersmile: :twak: :bad-words:
Ahh that was therapeutic. Seriously though. As much as I believe that SD will rule the world some day you are always going to have CF as a player. Simply. If you can fit X storage in a SD form factor you can generally double or triple that in the CF form factor. For those devices that need massive amounts of space or requires a larger form factor to fit electronics in a space that SD won't do CF will be around.
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