Tuesday 02/24/04
Panasonic has announced that they will ship yet another even smaller flash memory format, dubbed MiniSD, for use in cellular phones. It's apparently electrically compatible with regular SD memory cards, as Panasonic will provide an adapter so you can use the new cards in SD slots.
You know, I haven't really heard anyone complaining that SD cards are too big. In fact, they're too easy to misplace as it is. If you want to make a cell phone smaller, removing the completely superfluous gadgetry (camera, music player, etc.) from the phone is the obvious solution. Bonus: you probably won't need the memory card slot at all anymore, saving even more space!
There are some people who think they want cameras or other unrelated trinkets in their cell phones, true, but aside from the base profit motive, there is no imaginable reason to encourage these folks by actually producing such devices. Phones are for talking, not for taking pictures, or for playing music or games, or for anything else. That's why they're called "phones!"
You damn kids had better stay off my lawn, too.
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