It always bugs me when uninformed people blast Memory Stick (the normal sized one) as proprietary. Its just as propeirtary as SD cards are, if not less. Multiple manufacturers produce memory sticks (Lexar, Sandisk, etc.), and more than one company employs them in their products (Samsung, Acer, etc.). Most new photo printers and multi-format flash card readers support Memory Stick. Capacity is catching up to and exceeding SD, and other features (price, reliability, etc.) reall stand out in favor of the MS, in my opinion.
However, the new Memory Stick Duo found on the P800 (the "smaller version" talked about here) is a horrible proprietary format with approximately equal size to (but not compatible with) SD cards, with lower MB sizes, higher prices, and only works in a standard MS slot with an adapter (which most likely be sold as an extra). I'd much rather get any Clie with bluetooth (even the TG-50 with the useless thumbboard... http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=49 31) than get an SD or MS-Duo device of any kind.
You people crack me up. Contrary to your idealistic view, the vast majority of cellphones have simple monochrome screens. And while color PDA's (like Sony's N610C) are starting to get cheap enough to be widely used by average consumers (as opposed to 'prosumers'), many people still use monochrome PDA's. I have both a cellphone and monochrome PDA; the Treo makes perfect sense for consolidating the number of devices I need to carry around. Also, instead of having two different address books, I'll have all my contacts in one unified book. What's not to love?
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It always bugs me when uninformed people blast Memory Stick (the normal sized one) as proprietary. Its just as propeirtary as SD cards are, if not less. Multiple manufacturers produce memory sticks (Lexar, Sandisk, etc.), and more than one company employs them in their products (Samsung, Acer, etc.). Most new photo printers and multi-format flash card readers support Memory Stick. Capacity is catching up to and exceeding SD, and other features (price, reliability, etc.) reall stand out in favor of the MS, in my opinion.
9 31) than get an SD or MS-Duo device of any kind.
However, the new Memory Stick Duo found on the P800 (the "smaller version" talked about here) is a horrible proprietary format with approximately equal size to (but not compatible with) SD cards, with lower MB sizes, higher prices, and only works in a standard MS slot with an adapter (which most likely be sold as an extra). I'd much rather get any Clie with bluetooth (even the TG-50 with the useless thumbboard... http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=4
You people crack me up. Contrary to your idealistic view, the vast majority of cellphones have simple monochrome screens. And while color PDA's (like Sony's N610C) are starting to get cheap enough to be widely used by average consumers (as opposed to 'prosumers'), many people still use monochrome PDA's. I have both a cellphone and monochrome PDA; the Treo makes perfect sense for consolidating the number of devices I need to carry around. Also, instead of having two different address books, I'll have all my contacts in one unified book. What's not to love?