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Add 8GB of Storage to Your Cell Phone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sticky-storage dept.

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."

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  1. WTF? Do you own one of these phones? Obviously not by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:WTF? Do you own one of these phones? Obviously by everphilski · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

  3. Re:JUST CALLS? by British · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.