And because the SanDisk brand was already associated with memory cards and USB devices, it wasn't a great leap for customers to accept a flash music player from the same company.
There's no DLNA support, no support for playing media from external storage and no way to fill that 16GB of flash with music.
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Music phones are more likely to compete with cheaper, flash-memory based music players, he thinks.
The factories that crank out the flash memory used in digital music players cost billions of dollars each.
In other words, consumers have to pay about seven times more to expand their music selection with flash-based memory technology.
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We realised that if you had digital music, music that was digitised that is, then you could store it on flash memory or a hard drive and thus create a music player that could store many more songs that the Sony Walkmans or portable CD players that were the rage at the time.
Like its predecessors, the S10 uses flash internal memory chips to store the music it plays.
Integrated plug-ins now include RealNetworks RealPlayer 5.0, Macromedia Flash, and Headspace Beatnik for listening to music and other audio files.
It even pulses colorfully to the beat of music, and can be set to flash on and off when you get Twitter or Facebook notification.
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Information, music and films are regularly downloaded and shared on flash drives.
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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"Music players and phones have driven tremendous manufacturing scale for flash, " Fowler says.
Would a service such as iCloud (since it is an iMac) work best for music and then transfer Word docs and photos through a flash drive?
And her music gained hipster cachet, even fully divorced from the cultural flash of its time.
As the largest maker of flash memory products, SanDisk stands to benefit greatly from the proliferation of smart phones, MP3 music players, tablet computers and other handheld devices that use such memory.
Flash memory works best in small, low-memory gadgets such as phones, cameras and portable music players.
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.
And just like we likey, the Hydra supports USB mass storage allowing you to easily drag and drop music to the player, or any file for that matter for some good, USB flash drive portability.
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To the public, NAND-type flash memory is most familiar in the form of memory cards or sticks used in digital cameras or portable music players.
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