Impulse Buy Of Near Doom... (Palm, SD, Ipaq)

[ZATZAi]

So, I'm walking home and spot this PC store I never saw before, I go inside and they got some cool stuff. I walk out with a D-Link USB Bluetooth Adapter (DBT-120), and two Sand Disk 128MB SD cards.

I head over to the office to install the Bluetooth software, and load some WMAs on the SD cards. I take out the Box and 'GASP' the packaging says "Designed For Palm Handhelds" ie not my iPaq! 8O

I screamed an inner scream of doom that would ahve driven a man insane if heard outloud...

"Nooooo! Its FOR Palm.... And I got TWO!!!!!! Arghhhh!" :x

But, then I though, well, might as well try... So I plugged one into my Compaq Ipaq 3875, and tried to transfer a file...

...It worked! :D

And my WMA play just fine on it, thank goodness. Damn impulse buying, not reading the label and assuming the clerk knows what he's doing... :twisted:

(I'd alwasy heard that the Palm SD cards didn't work on PPC, did that change with EUU 2 :?: )

[ghoonk]

Hey, SD cards are SD cards. That's why they're called a STANDARD. Anyway, the part about 'Designed for palm handhelds' is simply a marketing thing to sell more cards.

From a marleting perspective, it's easier to make a sale if people had the reassurance that a certain product worked wth their gear.

However, it's quite well-known that SANDisk cards plain suck. In my experience and that of many others in my user group (PPCSG), it's slower, more unreliable, and has less space (due to the UNIQUE way that SANDisk measures their bytes), among other not-so-positive comments.

:)

[ZATZAi]

Really SanDisk is bad?

I had no idea, these are my first SD cards actually. Oh well, I'm happy with them so far, I can always give them away as X-Mas presents anyway write them off on taxes as a gift and get new ones... (I better ask my lawyer on that one)

What company makes good, and/or the best SD cards? (128 and 256MB)

EDIT: Bad Spelling

(Now I need to get my dang Bluetooth to work on Win Me....)

[Pony99CA]

Hey, SD cards are SD cards. That's why they're called a STANDARD. Anyway, the part about 'Designed for palm handhelds' is simply a marketing thing to sell more cards.

I haven't used any "Palm" SD cards, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were formatted differently or something, similar to Apple vs. PC floppy disks (at one time).

Does Palm just use the FAT file system beneath their own database system? If not, you could probably just format the SD cards on your PC anyway.

Steve