SanDisk Combines Flash, WiFi
Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:03 EST
SanDisk Corp. said it would begin shipping a Secure Digital card combining flash memory and WiFi connectivity beginning next month. The SanDisk Combination SD Card requires a Secure Digital I/O slot as well as either the Windows PocketPC 2002, 2003, or Windows Mobile 2003 OS, meaning that the technology will almost exclusively be tied to handhelds. The card, which combines 256 Mbytes of storage plus 802.11b, will retail for about $129, SanDisk said.
SanDisk designed the card because PDAs typically contain a single expansion slot, and may not have WiFi built in. "Either you have SD or you have WiFi, but not both," said SanDisk spokesman Mike Wong. "Now, there's no reason not to. In addition, you have the ability to download files without the need to store them in the (PDA's) system memory."
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