Very small gigabytes and other 21st century pleasures

[ellarien]

Last week I ordered a couple of 1Gb mini-SD cards -- on sale at about $9 each -- and they arrived today. The cards are not much bigger than my thumbnail, smaller than a postage stamp and not that much thicker, but the boggling thought is that even smaller versions -- microSD -- exist as well.

I've been having more fun with the new toy, including getting 530 words into it one way and another. It's probably more computer, in some ways, than my 1997 laptop, and more than adequate for plainish text editing with the keyboard in place; even with the stylus I can manage a few sentences in an odd ten minutes, but I'm not very good at Graffiti yet. It was also fun to sit at the bus stop this evening and check the weather forecast thanks to the University's public wireless network.

I'm up to 23,251 words on Ambassador, and hoping for more this weekend; it's at the brain-eating stage. I'm off to Phoenix; we'll see if the Palm keyboard will work on the shuttle.

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

My phone/walkman uses the microSD cards, and you have to be careful not to lose them.

How much are those, and will they ship to the UK?

And I thought I was doing well to get another 256MB card for my camera (XD) for £14, which is a pretty decent price locally...

[ellarien]

The cheapest on Amazon.com is $7.89 for a 1Gb microSD, but unfortunately they don't ship to the UK. (Even in the US the shipping is fairly steep.) Amazon.co.uk has some for under 10 pounds, though. The prices on flash memory have really dropped in the last couple of years.