12-20-2004, 10:00 AM
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Swami
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Samsung and Lexar Spawn Two More Flash Card Formats
"Samsung has launched a new multimedia card for camera phones that is one third the size of RS-MMC. The MMCmicro has been designed as a response to the decreasing size of mobile phone cameras. The card has exceptionally good read and write speeds for such a small device at 10MB and 7MB per second respectively. Production of the MMCmicro will begin early next year with 32MB, 64MB and 128MB capacities."
Yup, it's yet another Flash Card Format. That 242-in-1 card reader is looking more feasible by the day. Discuss. ;-)
Update: Darius just pointed out that Lexar have just released another format called UFC. This one has a built-in USB connector so you can plug it directly to your computer to copy over files, so it's basically a tiny USB flash drive. Joy. :|
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12-20-2004, 11:44 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Oct 2004
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well at least the speeds sound good but the Industry should get down to 2 standards at most.
I think SD is the best in size and most popular for normal use, and i can understand that its too big for mobile phones. So we have rs-mmc and rs-sd but another format will just end up like the not wide spread xd-card.
So why do it? Maybe to got Sony style to bind the consumers to Samsung ? or to finally have the 242-in-1 card reader and 5-Slot PPC and Mobile Phones with 20 different Wireless Protocols?
But its still better than if we only had the one microsoft memory stick right !? 
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12-20-2004, 11:52 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Re: Samsung Produce Yet Another Flash Card Format
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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins
Yup, it's yet another Flash Card Format. That 242-in-1 card reader is looking more feasible by the day. Discuss. ;-) |
There's also the new Lexar UFC. That 242-in-1 card reader may not be *enough* in the future! 
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12-20-2004, 11:55 AM
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Swami
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Originally Posted by Dopeman
But its still better than if we only had the one microsoft memory stick right !? |
Sure, but why do you need more than CF, SD and mini SD? :wink:
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12-20-2004, 12:04 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins
Sure, but why do you need more than CF, SD and mini SD? :wink:
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Exactly I think those 3 have everything anyone could want and they are the 3 formats which will stay.
CF for microdrives and big IO Devices (PROsumer stuff digital cameras)
SD the perfect format for all day use and IMHO the only format spread wide enoug to stay a long time
RS-SD the small mobile format for everything that is too small for sd (maybe successor of sd?)
Why is there still MMC ? are the patent costs from Panasonic for SD still so high?
Any way im sticking to SD! And Im not going to jump on that Sony Memory kind of train :wink:
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12-20-2004, 12:22 PM
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Swami
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Re: Samsung Produce Yet Another Flash Card Format
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
There's also the new Lexar UFC.
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Duly updated. Ta.
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
That 242-in-1 card reader may not be *enough* in the future! |
:cry:
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12-20-2004, 12:37 PM
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Re: Samsung Produce Yet Another Flash Card Format
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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins
Duly updated. Ta.
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Interestingly, the UFC is royalty-free so any Average Joe company can start mass-producing these. It may mean lower costs for consumers...perhaps? I've been wondering for many days whether these will ever be incorporated in PDAs.
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12-20-2004, 01:02 PM
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Intellectual
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From my perspective, it's more like 'Why is there still SD?' It's just another form of MMC with some features added that your PDA can't use.
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12-20-2004, 01:13 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by dlangton
From my perspective, it's more like 'Why is there still SD?' It's just another form of MMC with some features added that your PDA can't use.
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Which features? the write protection :?: Why cant you use it on a PPC?
but SD cards are faster than MMC cards or not !?
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12-20-2004, 01:33 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by dlangton
From my perspective, it's more like 'Why is there still SD?' It's just another form of MMC with some features added that your PDA can't use.
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Which features? the write protection :?: Why cant you use it on a PPC?
but SD cards are faster than MMC cards or not !? |
SD have a host of features that have made it a more preferred format over MMC. SD has the edge of MMC in terms of speed. It also features a write protection switch, which for the consumer, has its ups and downs, but FWIW, if you don't use it, ignore it. SD cards are said to be more durable and electrostatic resistant than MMC. The other feature is the cryptographic security which helps with copyright protection. Companies would obviously prefer a format which has better copyright protection, which is probably another reason why adoption of SD has been more widespread than MMC, even though a lot of devices using them tend to be universally compatible with both formats. Anyway, the surge in demand of SD has led to a drop in prices, and SD is now the cheaper of the two formats.
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