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Indie Music Offered for Free On MicroSD Cards


SanDisk yesterday launched Sansa Sessions, a music distribution effort that uses microSD cards, which are those tiny little pieces of plastic that fit into (and expand the storage capacity of) cell phones. As of this week's launch, the microSD cards contain DRM-free tracks from over 50 indie rock bands, including Nada Surf, Of Montreal, Ladytron and more. This music sampler comes for free with the purchase of SanDisk's 8GB Sansa Fuze MP3 player, which has a built-in slot for reading the card.

While a microSD card loaded with tunes sounds like a good idea, we're not sure if it could actually take off as a popular format. Sure, file transfer to phones, MP3 players, and computers is easy, but the cards are physically tiny and extremely easy to lose.

From SanDisk and Engadget

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Turn Your BlackBerry Into an iPhone


By the end of this year, the iPhone won't be the only smart phone with a Nano's worth of memory (8-gigabyte, which holds about 1,000 songs and a couple of movies).That's because SanDisk plans to launch 8-gigabyte (GB) microSD High Capacity (microSDHC) memory cards by the end of the year.

This means phones such as the BlackBerry Curve, the BlackBerry 8800, and the Pearl will be expandable to 8GB, and, presumably, more as the memory card sizes increase (the maximum memory card size on the market right now is 4GB). Right now, just a few phones have the capability to accept these high capacity cards, but the situation should improve by the end of the year.

So, if you purchased a Curve or a Pearl, you don't need to kick yourself in the pants for not having waited for the iPhone. Chances are that the sizes of microSD memory will grow as quickly, if not faster, than the sizes of the iPhone's internal memory.

From SanDisk.



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