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To: John F Beule who wrote (18204)	1/12/2001 1:32:54 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) of 60323

There has been some criticism of the lack of flash memory standardization. This week I found an order form for the entire Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) on digital media. Franklin Books, the guys who have had digital books, bibles, and encyclopedias for sale at RadioShack for many years, offer four alternatives to the hard cover edition of the PDR... a) Franklin's proprietary card module b) a Handspring Module (Springboard) c) a CD-ROM version which is written for the Palm OS or WinCE d) an MMC version which can be read on their PDA, the eBookman The text itself is several thousand pages in length. It must be irritating to have to support all of these form factors. It is every bit as annoying to have each manufacturer coming up with its own solution. Handspring wanted a proprietary module that has all the basic pin connections of CompactFlash, but in a slightly larger form factor with two of the connectors reversed. Sony wanted their own proprietary form factor. Palm wanted no removable memory at all. Franklin is supporting their old standby. Garmin created their own flash modules for their map software. And WinCE lets you download to any media supported by your PDA. Add Clik!, microdrive and now DataPlay to that mix. And don't forget SmartMedia either! Although biased I still feel that CompactFlash had the best potential for being a universal standard. Now I am thinking that there will always be divisions between OEM's. I continue to support CF and SDMC/MMC and the devices that utilize these form factors. My only regrets have been that I have avoided Olympus and Sony digital cameras, as well as the Palm OS-based PDA's and the Diamond Rio! devices. Despite this I have been extremely happy with my consumer electronics purchases to date. Let's hope a few of the form factors fall by the wayside in 2001 with more manufacturers designing around SanDisk's products. Aus

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