The big players in digital camera flash memory are Sandisk and Toshiba .
Sadly, the iPod, iPhone, Zune and Windows Mobile aren't supported yet, but the rest of the device list is pretty decent: it includes the BlackBerry Pearl, Storm, and Curve, the G1, Sony Ericsson Cybershot and Walkman phones, the Kindle, Nokia N and E-series phones, and most digital cameras and flash-based camcorders.
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Most of the discussion around cell phone cannibalization focuses on PDAs or digital cameras, but flash-based MP3 players are lower-hanging fruit.
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How do you tell who has long-term digital eminence from the flash-in-the-pans?
The increased use of flash memory storage has lead to new storage interfaces that can take advantage of the higher data rates that NAND flash based digital storage can provide.
Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
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In short: you no longer have a pull-out settings menu, but the basic settings -- brightness, geotagging, white balance, flash, and digital zoom -- are along the right-hand side of the viewfinder.
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Falling prices for everything from the DRAM memory used to make PCs run faster to the NAND flash memory powering digital media players--have sent Micron's shares down 59% over the past year and about 74% over the past two years.
The factories that crank out the flash memory used in digital music players cost billions of dollars each.
Scads of companies are using postage stamp-sized flash memory cards in digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 audio players and cell phones.
Globally, it remains a solid number one, or at least a number two, in digital TVs, LCD screens, flash memory, DRAM and other products.
At the very moment we look at those new clothes in that store window, a special offer for the clothes will flash up on the digital interface of our Google Glass.
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MP3 digital music players hadn't yet hit the market to any real extent, and removable flash memory cards were limited to use in digital cameras.
SanDisk's diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market.
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The NVMe interface includes facets of memory as well as digital storage and includes features designed for flash memory optimized performance.
Its flash cards are ubiquitous in digital cameras and its memory chips are found in notebook and netbook computers, smartphones and digital music players.
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The company already has a major stake in the digital video industry, given that its Flash technology powers a growing percentage of the Web's video.
Intel's shares tumbled in January, when it said lower-than-expected demand for the NAND flash memory chips used in digital media players and other gizmos would weigh down earnings (see "Intel's Stock Slammed"), and investors are counting on Otellini to fix that business.
Virtually all Kodak digital cameras have a few token megabytes of flash memory.
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It's also 100 percent digital albeit with a paltry 256 MB of flash memory and no flash card slot.
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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.
The flash MP3 market is more vulnerable than digital cameras or even PDAs because, despite all of the media attention around the iPod, the market is less mature.
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But whether Iomega likes it, the momentum, at least as far as digital music and photography goes, seems to be with flash-based cards, regardless of cost.
Our ability to take photos and erase them, to change ringtones, or to acquire digital music is the direct result of the use of flash storage over the past quarter-century.
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Flash memory offers fast ways to cache and serve up digital content to support high usage virtual machine environments.
Gamestop has been making big moves in the digital arena lately, including the seemingly smart decision to pick up flash game site Kongregate and the seemingly less smart decision to start selling DLC from their stores.
The Lytro is an exciting and novel leap in digital photography, but because it still has some missing features, like flash and a file format that works in other software, buyers should consider it a second camera, at least for now.
For every thousand people who watch a Flash clip online or fill out an online Adobe Acrobat Reader tax form (without paying), there's a Web programmer or graphic designer who paid several hundred dollars for the right to create that digital content using Adobe's multimedia production and editing tools such as Flash, Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop.
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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As can be seen, traditional film use is 15% or less with digital technologies such as optical discs, hard disk drives, magnetic tape and flash memory are the bulk of modern recording media.
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