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To: Jim Greif who wrote (1363)	11/6/1997 12:59:00 PM
From: Sandra Simon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

I haven't seen anything mentioned here before, but I do believe NCII is partnered with SanDisk. I've heard they are going to be in the SanDisk booth at Comdex. FYI check this out - may answer some questions: norriscomm.com

To: Jim Greif who wrote (1363)	11/6/1997 1:16:00 PM
From: Gary Spiers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Jim, >>Another question: will the SNDK chip handle voice messages? I see that as probably the largest possible application initially. Not everyone is concerned with faxes and other data transmissions.<< Flashram just stores data - and voice messages are as valid a form of data as any other. All it requires is for someone to build a device to store voice messages and voice messaging built into phones seems like a pretty obvious one to me. Perhaps I should introduce myself - I am newto SI and have been reading the Sandisk thread here for the last couple of weeks. My interest in them arose about three years ago when I purchased a palmtop computer. It became clear to me that this was a growth market and as I learned of Sandisk's increasing dominance of this market place it was clear that technically they were poised for great things. Some (mostly uninformed) comments for anyone : The Nokia palmtop/phone appears to be an outgrowth of some development work they did with Hewlett Packard several years ago which resulted in the HP700LX palmtop with built-in GSM card and a docking mount for a Nokia phone - this was never sold in the US but was available thorughout the rest of the world. Obviously Nokia took what they learnt from HP about palmtops and applied it to the integrated phone/palmtop unit displayed yesterday. The OEM pricing for the new memory modules appears to be very low compared to the current consumer pricing for a 10MB Type II ATA flashcard. Pricing has always been what has limited the growth of the use of these devices in the consumer market - as an 'early adopter' my first flash card (20MB) cost over $400. Gary