FYI: 512M SD Getting Reasonable...

[artemido]

Please take this for what it is: an IPAQ user pointing out a good deal to his fellow enthusiasts. I have absolutely no connection to eCost.com other than the fact that I'm a frequent customer and recipient of their nearly daily spam... eCost is running a decent deal on 512M SD media which might be of some interest to you guys. Check it out...

http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?DPNo=253350&adcampaign=email,ewb04081

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Thanks for the tip. I saw the price on the SMART SD. Is that any different from SANDISK? Is it just another name brand? If it is that is screaming!:D

[artemido]

Smart is yet another manufacturer of memory that complies with the Secure Digital/Multimedia Card (SD/MMC) "standard". Compare with Mushkin vs. Crucial in the conventional SDRAM arena. Other manufacturers that I've seen include: PNY, Kingston, etc.

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I have heard that you can use MMC in secure digital slots but not the other way. Can you confirm this?

[artemido]

MMC cards can be read in SD slots.
SD cards can NOT be read in MMC slots.

If you try to go the upsupported direction you'll note that SD has 1-2 too many pins and is just a hair too large for the MMC slot. (Personal experience based upon shoving an SD card into my old Nokia 3650 phone...heh...)