We too were groaning when the Multimedia Card Association approved yet another memory card standard dubbed the miCARD. But after seeing Pretec’s S-Diamond up close, we can kind of see why it’s useful.
Similar in theory to the Kingston microSD bundles we looked at yesterday, the miCARD comes with its own USB adapter. In this case, the USB adapter looks like the size and shape of an SD card, but fits directly into your USB port. Quite handy.
Still, another memory card format means we have to shell out even more money, but that’s the price of innovation.
Pretec S-Diamond – First miCARD Customer [Everything USB]
Adz
Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 9:55 AMI’m happy with them releasing new standards, but this should mean that one of the old media becomes totally defunct.
It’s just like when my wife buys a new pair of shoes. She buys a new pair and an old pair must leave Shoe City; a mass of shoes under our bed.
Matt Ford
Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:51 PMHow is this standard any different (or new) than the card Sandisk have been producing for nearly 18 months. http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1239)-SDSDPH-1024-SanDisk_Ultra_II_SD_Plus_USB_1GB.aspx
Jared
Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 9:22 PMYeah i would like to see the XD format get flushed.
Just as SD starts getting cheaper and they aren’t making as much money they have to bring something new out to fleece the consumer!!