The tiny Secure Digital memory card is beginning to loom large on the consumer electronics landscape.
Stick a Secure Digital memory card in a slot, and you can have it record video thumbnails at regular intervals as you shoot.
The Secure Digital (SD) memory card will hold up to two hours of video on 64 megabytes.
It also incorporates an eight-megabyte memory card and a digital video-disc player.
There's also an FM tuner, integrated digital voice recorder, a microSD memory card slot that can handle microSDHC cards up to 8GB in size, support for playback of MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files, and enough battery life for playback of at least 30 hours of audio and 6 hours of video.
And, using the handy SharePort Mobile app for mobile devices, USB and SD card file sharing or expanded device storage, it's easier than ever to record and share a video with friends, send a corporate presentation to people in the audience, or transfer digital photos from a camera's memory card to a computer in the field.
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As mentioned, it also features two USB ports for such things as memory card readers (for importing your digital photos, naturally) and USB WiFi adapters, in case you don't want or can't get a wired connection.
But still it's got room for a Secure Digital storage card, the postage stamp-sized flash memory cards that are showing up in all kinds of electronic devices.
Eye-Fi, a wireless memory card that can automatically upload photos from a digital camera to a computer or Web site, will be on display at the Las Vegas show.
With a slot for Sony's MemoryStick memory card, users of the company's digital still cameras will be able to view images directly on the Clie and, unlike the Palm devices, the machine also includes a video viewer.
It's also 100 percent digital albeit with a paltry 256 MB of flash memory and no flash card slot.
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Likewise, the company's FlashTrax looks just like an audiocassette: Stick in a multimedia card or memory stick, and you can play digital music on a car stereo or boom box.
So I grabbed a compact flash memory card I've been using with other PDAs and digital cameras - but it didn't fit.
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While the Micro-SD card slot extends memory up to 32 G, guaranteeing even more room to your digital life.
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The player supports several types of discs including DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW. There's also an SD Memory card slot, so you can look at photos you may have saved from a digital camera.
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