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SanDisk launches the high-performance Ultra II Mobile Line, consisting of the microSD, miniSD and Memory Stick PRO Duo formats

SanDisk introduced its high-performance Ultra II Mobile line of flash memory cards for mobile phones. The new line consists of three memory card formats: microSD, miniSD and Memory Stick PRO Duo. The introduction of Memory Stick PRO Duo was actually announced on February 26.

The Ultra II Mobile line provides a combination of high transfer speed, low energy consumption and high storage capacity for meeting the demand of the new mobile phones with integrated MP3 players and high-resolution digital cameras.

The Ultra II memory cards have faster read and write speeds than standard flash memory cards, the minimum write speed is 9 MB/sec and read speed 10 MB/sec, and will have extended warranties in all regions of the world. The cards will be offered only in high capacities, ranging from 1 GB to 4 GB.

The Ultra II Mobile line will be available in mobile phone stores and other retailers in spring 2006. The suggested retail prices are listed below:

microSD, 1GB                               $89.99 U.S.
miniSD, 1GB                                 $79.99 U.S.
miniSD, 2GB                                 $119.99 U.S.
Memory Stick PRO Duo, 1GB           $99.99 U.S.
Memory Stick PRO Duo, 2GB           $179.99 U.S.
Memory Stick PRO Duo, 4GB           $359.99 U.S.

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Source: www.sandisk.com

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SanDisk announces a 4 GB storage capacity regular Memory Stick Pro Duo card

After introducing on February 26 the 4 GB Ultra II Memory Stick PRO Duo, high-performance memory card, SanDisk introduced today the 4 GB regular Memory Stick PRO Duo. The announcement was made at the CeBIT Show in Hannover, Germany.

The move to a larger capacity Memory Stick PRO Duo regular cards is good news for Sony PSP owners, SonyEricsson mobile phone owners but also for owners of Sony digital cameras since the majority of Sony’s new-released digital cameras have Memory Stick Duo slots rather than Memory Stick PRO slots.

The new memory card is expected to ship in April 2006 and the suggested retail price is $ 299. SanDisk is making a colour change for its regular Memory Stick PRO Duo line, from pale blue to deep blue.

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Source: www.sandisk.com

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Pretec introduces the largest capacity RS-MMC/MMCmobile memory card and 1.5 GB versions for some of its memory cards

Pretec has released a 2 GB RS-MMC/MMCmobile, the largest storage capacity RS-MMC card in the world.

Pretec also demonstrated new versions of SD Memory Card, MMC card and CompactFlash memory cards with the odd storage capacity of 1.5 GB. Those are lower cost version, compared to the 2 GB, memory cards that are expected to be used by corporations which are using bundled software such as digital map, where more than 1 GB is needed yet less than 2 GB of storage capacity is required. Pretec’s 1.5 GB memory cards are ideal choice for such applications.

Since low cost content memory cards, bundled with particular applications, are on the rise Pretec will provide memory cards with different storage capacities and content upload services for it’s customers. A prototype of the automatic content uploading/duplication machine for the most of the memory card standards will be demonstrated at CeBIT convention. Pretec will also offer memory cards with storage capacities of 1.2 GB, 1 GB and 0.8 GB.

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Source: www.pretec.com

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