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    SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/01/s...favor-of-micr/

    Nice!

    Sound like CEO Howard Stringer wasn't just mouthing off last month.

    http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/s...-technology-f/

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Ah good news. I never understood why they wanted to push their own format in the first place.. the original memory sticks were pretty much limited to the Vaio laptops and a couple digital cameras - I thought Sony were trying to pull an Apple

    But it seems an odd move to me, with every card reader under the sun able to handle the 20-odd formats we have these days, to pull the plug now.

    I'm assuming Sony are still looking at their first loss in 14 years and thinking - "maybe people will be happier to buy our cameras and phones if they can reuse their SD/flash cards from their other items".

    I hate proprietry stuff, and this is coming from someone who has a Dell I'm glad to see more open standards, especially since the SD/MiniSD/MicroSD format is cheap as chips to buy cards of.

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Muppets, i wish they included microSD in to my W910 then i wouldnt had to spend a fortune in to paying for a 8gig M2, i mean K850 was exactly the same time phone and it had it
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    I can't believe it's taken them this long to realise they were wrong. Don't they know you're not supposed to antagonise customers? Or make their life more difficult? It's such short-term thinking pinning people to your own format just so you can make a few extra quid. I'm glad it's finally biting them in the ass.

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    In other news hell hath frozen over. Good god - I never thought i'd see the day!
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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    To defend Sony a little bit, I can understand why they created MemoryStick to start with: there was nothing else comparable on the market at the time.

    You either had CompactFlash, which wasn't very compact, or SmartMedia, which wasn't smart at all (and limited to 128MB).

    Hell, at least it's better than XD cards!

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    To defend Sony a little bit, I can understand why they created MemoryStick to start with: there was nothing else comparable on the market at the time.
    Fair enough, but if they'd made it an open standard, they wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. We'd have memory stick instead of SD.

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Very true. I only said a little bit

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Worse part was when they introduced the M2 cards for their phones... Nothing else uses them!

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    Hell, at least it's better than XD cards!
    +1 to that. Sadly though, I am quite a fan of my Fuji F31fd compact camera, so I am quite stuck with it.

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Quote Originally Posted by u6c View Post
    Worse part was when they introduced the M2 cards for their phones... Nothing else uses them!
    Quoted for truth.

    I'm close to having two 4GB ones filled with photos and I don't know what to do with them. :/

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    Re: SonyEricsson ditching MemoryStick

    Quote Originally Posted by Greenlizard0 View Post
    I'm close to having two 4GB ones filled with photos and I don't know what to do with them. :/
    get a couple of tiny little card readers and use the as ped drives?

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