SanDisk pre-launches slotMusic

by admin September 22, 2008 at 7:28 pm

To push up Samsung bid price?

DRM-free music for your mobile phone and MP3 players sounds a good idea but not when an announcement is rushed out by SanDisk eager to to push up Samsung’s bid price.

The SanDisk slotMusic announcement is a 1GB, fingernail-size, microSD-format card preloaded with DRM-free music from one of four music companies. It should be available, before Christmas, both online and in Best Buy and Walmart, with European availability to follow. Music will play at 320Kbit/s. An accompanying USB sleeve will enable PCs to store and play the card’s music.

Read more: theregister.co.uk