Splash in Flash Memory

Flash Memory And Their Beloved Gadgets

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Nearly every cell phone made include some sort of flash memory port, adapter or storage area in the device and GFM’s Cell Phones category highlights some of my findings.


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01.11.07

Then End of MMC

Cell Phones| Flash Memory News| MicroSD| MultiMedia Card

It’s very possible the end of MultiMediaCards or MMC flash memory is at our front door. Over 62% of new cell phones in ‘06 used a smaller format like MicroSD and only two known phones where introduced exclusively with MMC expansion slots (Nokia N72 and BenQ M81).

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“Between them, Samsung and LG introduced 65 new handsets with removable memory card slots in the last nine months, all of them using the microSD slot format,” comments Stuart Robinson, Director of the Handset Component Technology service at Strategy Analytics. (more…)

12.12.06

RIM Sues Samsung Over Black

Cell Phones| Flash Memory News| MicroSD

Research In Motion, creators of Blackberry have their arms up in the air for Samsung marketing a Blackberry looking mobile device called the BlackJack.

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RIM is stating in the lawsuit that Samsung is projecting false origin and unfair competition of the trademark name, Blackberry. BUT, the BlackJack does have some notable features the RIM folks are near offering, like 1.3mp digital camera and MP3 player. The BlackJack, like Blackberry has a MicroSD slot for expanded memory. Despite the lawsuit, Cingular (more…)

12.07.06

Nokia E61 Gets Bigger with MiniSD

Cell Phones| Flash Memory News| MiniSD

Take the 75MBs of internal flash memory and jump another 2GB with MiniSD expansion slot makes the Nokia E61 one heck of a power SmartPhone. Considering the Nokia E61, it is a 3G handset with quad-band GSM support. With WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and the 320×240 pixel display in 16 million colors gives you a great wires free multimedia entertainment and work phone. Big downer, the Nokia E61 doesn’t consist of any camera - I guess too many businesses have issues with digital camera proliferation.

Nokia E61

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Currently In Category:
Cell Phones

Nearly every cell phone made include some sort of flash memory port, adapter or storage area in the device and GFM’s Cell Phones category highlights some of my findings.


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