Kingston unveils DataTraveler Micro Reader to make mobile phone memory card use more flexible
By Dusan Belic on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 2:04 PM PST In Accessories, Announcements, Mobile World Congress 2008
At the Mobile World Congress, Kingston showed us a neat accessory for data porting between a mobile phone and a computer. The so called DataTraveler Micro Reader is an all-in-one USB Flash drive and reader that can store, transfer and read content on mobile memory cards.
With dimensions of just 64×19.8×10.4 mm, weight of 8.68 g, and with its own storage capacity of up to 4GB, the tiny device is just perfect to carry around. All popular formats are supported, including microSD, microSDHC, and Memory Stick Micro (M2).
Unfortunately, we don’t know how much the DataTraveler Micro Reader will cost once it’s released later in the month — we only know the 1GB version will be released first, followed by the 2GB and 4GB versions soon after…
Just today I bought for around 10 € the MSI StarReader mini II. Ok, it has no build in memory. But It is designed to be portable and can read several card types, including SD(in all available sizes and also HC) and SIM/M2…