SanDisk introduced a 4-gigabyte M2 memory card

SanDisk expanded its Memory Stick Micro (M2) line by introducing a 4-gigabyte M2 card, which is compatible with Sony Ericsson's latets generation of slim line, multimedia mobile handsets such as the Cyber-Shot and Walkman series. 4 GB M2 card can hold up to 1000 songs, 2000 high-resolution photos or 20 hours of MPEG4 video. The new M2 card will ship to OEMs in May, and will be available in retail stores later in the year. Pricing is not yet determined.

“This new card, and other SanDisk cards for mobile phones such as our 4GB microSD™ High Capacity (SDHC™), are reshaping the wireless landscape,” said Norm Frentz, director of marketing for SanDisk’s mobile consumer solutions division. “This is the threshold at which mobile phones provide enough capacity to become the user’s all-in-one portable music player, camcorder, photo album and video player.”

The M2 format was co-developed by SanDisk and Sony Corporation to meet the growing storage needs of highly compact, multimedia mobile phones. M2 measures 0.59" long x 0.49" wide x 0.05" high, or 15mm x 12.5mm x 1.2mm, making it the second smallest flash memory media in the world, behind the microSD format, which SanDisk pioneered.

29.03.2007. 18:06