Universal Card Reader

[Paraiso]

Shouldn't all PDA's (either Clie or not) have a universal card reader?

I believe it would be great, everybody could use their favorite card format, and users with a Sony MS could share files with Palmone users or any other PDA's or viceversa.

What do you think??

[SacKingsFan]

Wouldn't it take up a lot of space?

[Mayday45]

I've seen universal card readers that were less that a 1/4 inch think.

[Paraiso]

I don't think they would use so much space, I would love to share files and other multimedia apps with other PDA users.

Or maybe it would be a better idea to standarize all the memory cards, and make all the companies use the same format for all their devices.

[PBM808]

And we would then have world peace and unity among all!!!

[Paraiso]

It would be easier to have world peace than to have all the companies use the same format.

[fjl307]

Sony would never do that. They have thier own format to sell- Memory Sticks they dont want the competition to be blown away because people would use CF or SD

[Paraiso]

Could an external card reader for PDA's work? (like the ones for PC)

[Mayday45]

I'm guessing that a driver would have to be written for it by someone (official or otherwise), but it should work. In the same thinking, you should be able to hook up a hard drive to a pda (via usb - maybe?) if someone wrote a driver.

[rsavage]

Someone get to work on rigging a microdrive to work on a clie over usb... that would be a golden age of palming.