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.