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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Another John who wrote (26518)	8/16/2004 9:37:59 AM
From: NHP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

John, Thanks for the information on SIM. It enabled me to do an internet search for more information. This is what I found, of all places, on the SanDisk site: TransFlash is designed to store personal content such as digital images, MP3 music files, video games and other applications, phone settings and personal data. Due to its very small size and substantial storage capacity, it is likely to remain in the handset for extended periods; however, it can easily be removed and inserted into another phone when consumers want to upgrade their phones. This usage model is similar to the SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards used in most mobile phones worldwide that can be transported by the subscriber from one handset to another. However, SIM cards have very limited flash memory storage and suffer from a very slow data transfer rate that is not suitable for tens or hundreds of megabytes stored. TransFlash has approximately half the footprint of SIM cards. NHP