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Add 8GB of Storage to Your Cell Phone
gd writes "MobileTechNews is reporting that a company called US modular has put out a device that taps into your existing mobile phones microSD or Tflash slot to add up to 8GB of storage. The Stik&Stor adds a memory chip to the back side of the battery pack and only costs $199 to add 8GB to your music phone."
I have one of the listed phones (V635) that takes transflash, and I can play any MP3 in the player, use any MP3 as a ringtone, re-encode any video I want to .3gp format in mplayer and upload it - including full movies. I have re-encoded whole DVDs into 20 MB .3gp files and watched them on my phone while on the bus.
There is no DRM issue whatsoever. You can plug a transflash card into any SD reader to download or upload whatever the hell you want on it. It's no different than CF or SD or XD or any other memory card, there is no DRM involved.
The parent poster is pretty ignorant to this technology. Personally I can't wait to get one of these - the highest storage transflash card right now (I am aware of) is only 512 MB. 8GB would rock.
Don't know about Samsung phones, but Motorola phones have transfer cables that are easy to come by... $10 or so on froogle. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=samsung+transf er+cable&btnG=Search+Froogle (16.99 for the first result ... I don't know what model you have ) thats how I moved stuff onto my v265. I'm a Verizon customer too. Good cell phone forums for this kind of thing are www.howardsforum.com (may be misspelt, google it, I don't look up this kind of thing at work).
Next PSP generation will be able to make phone calls, I'm sure!
Yes, and the PSP phone will have:
1. a cost that's twice as much as the other cell phones
2. Downloadable games, at $29.95 each.
3. A proprietary memory card slot that won't have readers/writers available for it
4. A compilcated sync system where you have to give funny names to upload video files, ringtones
5. firmware upgrades every 2 months to prevent homebrewing
6. Dial a wrong number? You just bricked your psp-phone.
Not if you buy the right phone, I have the rokr - people that hate it have never really looked at what it can do, Right now I have 150 songs on it - that's right not 100, "one five zero" The 100 song limit is the number of iTunes songs. 4 hours of TV shows and a few dozen pictures of my grandkids. I have custom ring tones for each of my family members and haven't paid for a single one yet, When I use the cam, I just download via USB no cost to me for that ether.
Maybe you should do a little bit better job of comparison shopping next time you look at phones.