Is Flash the way to go? - PBX Info :: Your Free PBX, PABX and Telephone Information Resource

**rixride** · 08-21-2006, 10:01 AM

It seems pretty convenient, You grab a flash card for your camera, then put it on your MP3 player, then slide it in your mobile phone for both pictures and music?

I think going flash may be in the future, who needs a 10LB IPOD when you can use a small flash card? I guess once the capacity starts to reach 20-50 gigs or more people will take it seriously. Fitting that much info on a little card that can be moved from device to device seems like a much better solution then a hard drive type device? Don't you think?

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SanDisk claims largest capacity MP3 player

Mark LaPedus EE Times
(08/21/2006 9:15 AM EDT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a move to expand its systems business, SanDisk Corp. unveiled what the company claims is the world's largest capacity, flash-based MP3 player. The flash-memory product company also cut the prices on its older MP3 player models. Priced at $249.99, the new Sansa e280 is the latest MP3 player in SanDisk's flagship e200 series. The new 8-gigabyte (GB) device features a microSD expansion slot, allowing expansion to 10-GB of music — or 2,500 songs — with an optional SanDisk 2-GB microSD card.
In conjunction with the rollout, SanDisk (Milpitas, Calif.) has lowered its prices on the entire Sansa e200 line of products, including the existing 2-, 4- and 6-GB models. Current pricing on the Sansa e200 product line includes a 2-GB flash-based player for under $140.
Sandisk competes in the MP3 player market against Apple, Creative, Samsung, among others.

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***JulianW*** · 08-22-2006, 06:36 AM

I love the idea of flash memory, you're taking pictures on holiday, no way to transfer them to PC or CD, just take out the full one and replace it with another "stick". The prices for the capacity are also coming down quite rapidly at the moment, I've just purchased a 1GB XD card for my camera and including delivery didn't cost quite £30 ($50).

***sepay*** · 08-22-2006, 07:34 AM

I'd wish vendor could come to improve their capacity as soon as possible, since many of the devices & systems(pabx) use flash cards. But also they must improve the quality. Known some guys who bought a 512mb, after several months, it is not usable anymore. Tried to recover it, but my card reader can't read it.

***papa-bear*** · 08-22-2006, 10:21 AM

The only problem I have found with the flash memory is when you get up over 256Mb in a camera there is more of a delay when it writes to the card. I assume it has to do with speed of the memory as well but I did notice a difference going from 256 to 512 then a bigger difference going to a 1gb card.

Otherwise, I love the idea. I used to travel with my PC so I could dump the pictures off and make room for more. Now I don't have to think about it, just change cards.

***MSYoung*** · 08-22-2006, 12:07 PM

I would also like to see one type of flash card only. There are half a dozen different types now. My camera has one type, my GPS device has another, my wife's camera has another type, and her MP3 player has a fourth type.

***rwhite*** · 08-22-2006, 12:19 PM

I concur with the comments. I have also seen them used to substitute for a floppy and HD in a single-purpose computer. It made the device pretty rugged since the mechanical parts seemed the most failure prone.

***papa-bear*** · 08-22-2006, 01:18 PM

That is a problem with the multiple types of cards. My camera takes the Compact Flash, my wifes camera and our PDAs take the SD and my PSP uses the Sony memory sticks.

I went out and bought a cheap all in one card reader for my desktop just so I did not have to worry about trying to transfer data from one to the other.

Filou · 09-04-2006, 06:03 AM

I love the idea, but MSYoung is right: the problem is that they come up with a new format every year, even in the same "family" of cards (like: SD, MiniSD, microSD, SDHC, what then?), so first I'm forced to choose a device that will accept the same family of cards as my other devices (this can be vicious: for example you have to buy all-Sony or no-Sony, but Sony is a case of its own...), and then I'm forced to buy again a bunch of cards when a new device switches to a new format (example: when I bought my new PDA-phone, I had to buy new microSD cards to be able to swap them between my PDA-phone, my camera, my PCs and my car audio system, etc.).

***bobmay*** · 09-04-2006, 08:40 AM

Thats the great thing about "standards", there are so many to chose from.

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