[Gllug] [OT] CF card mp3 players?

Mike Leigh MikeL at hornbill.com
Thu Oct 14 12:57:57 UTC 2004


Can I ask where the source of these prices comes from please.

Thanks

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Rev Simon Rumble [mailto:simon at rumble.net]
Sent: 14 October 2004 13:56
To: Greater London Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] [OT] CF card mp3 players?


This one time, at band camp, farnsaw at stonedoor.com wrote:
> No suggestion on the MP3 player, but with MMC/SD cards about 60 quid for
> a 1 Gig card, I would look that way unless I had a ton of CF cards
> sitting around.  Most MP3 players have build in memory that is not
> upgradable.  Interestingly enough, the Nokia 6230 phone has an MP3
> player built in and it uses MMC cards (which is how I know the price of
> the 1Gig MMC cards).  While the player software is not perfect, it is as
> good as most other no-name mp3 players out there and there is hope that
> nokia will improve it.

Any reason why you would suggest these formats over CF?  In my 
experience, CF is always cheaper and it's certainly more ubiquitous in 
devices.  And besides, I already have two of them for my digital camera.

Scan's Today Only prices for 512M (inc VAT):
CF:  31.14
MMC: 39.07
SD:  34.37

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