Little technical specifications is available on the format used to store the songs, but the card will include the entire album in "quality comparable to that of a CD" plus some video content. Priced at £29.99 the card will be available at 600 Carphone Warehouse stores across the UK from November.
The product is apparently aimed at mobile phone and PDA users, but I personally see little market for this type of a physical media for storing music. I would much rather use my existing MMC/SD/CF/whatever card to store the music I want, and purchase the songs some other way. Of course there is no way of purchasing songs from the DRM crippled online music stores for playback on a "third party" mobile device -- such as my mobile phone or my iPAQ PDA.
Sources:
Press release
BBC
Written by: Jari Ketola @ 18 Oct 2004 17:37
