It looks like 100 MB MP3 players are on their way.
<<Music On New MP3 Internet Music Player
July 26, 1999 10:15 AM
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999--SanDisk Corporation SNDK announced today that it will supply Baromtec, a Korean consumer electronics company, with its MultiMediaCard for use with Baromtec's new MP3 internet music player.
A SanDisk MultiMediaCard will be included with each Muz.M BMP-100 internet music player sold. Each unit is designed with a specific slot for MultiMediaCards to be used for the storing and play back of downloaded internet music.
Nelson Chan, SanDisk vice president of marketing, said, "With the introduction of Baromtec's ultra small and sleek MP3 internet music player, we believe that the MultiMediaCard form factor is proving to be the best storage solution for the new internet players. MultiMediaCard is the world's smallest removable flash data, image and audio storage device. The Muz.M BMP-100 required a small, low-power storage card solution and we're delighted that Baromtec selected the SanDisk MultiMediaCard."
Baromtec's Muz.M BMP-100 is the industry's fourteenth announced new internet music player to use SanDisk's MultiMediaCard to store and play back music.
The Muz.M BMP-100 weighs only 0.95 ounces (without battery) and measures 1.89 x 2.5 x 0.63 inches and includes a built-in voice recorder which consumers can use as a memo device to store about four minutes of voice recording per megabyte. Operating on only one "AAA" battery, the very small, light and easy-to-use internet music player can offer up to eight hours of continuous play back. Baromtec's Muz.M BMP-100 will be available to the Korean retail channel next month. Baromtec plans to sell the Muz.M BMP-100 through the OEM channel in other countries, including the United States.
James Lee, president of Baromtec, said, "The MultiMediaCard is quickly becoming the industry standard for storage used in MP3 players. This market will grow rapidly and we are pleased that we have teamed with SanDisk, the market leader in flash memory, for data, image and audio storage, to provide a portable music player which we believe will be extremely popular worldwide."
Semico, a leading market research firm, recently produced a forecast for solid-state music players. Semico concluded that nearly 3 million units would be sold worldwide next year, 7.8 million units in 2001 and more than 13 million players would be sold in 2002.
SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.>>
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