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SanDisk announced their slotMusic initiative today, bringing you tunes from EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner record labels to a brand new mobile-friendly medium. Initial reactions have been generally poor, but I remain optimistic. Plenty of phones have hot-swapping capabilities that hardly ever get used, and whole albums jam-packed with up to 1 GB of metadata seems like a worthwhile way of making use of the functionality. The cards will come with USB adapters, enabling computer access to all the files on there, as well as allowing you to pack the microSD stick with your own files. Being DRM-free is really just the icing on the cake, although one might consider it a necessity with the growing flexibility and popularity of digital distribution. It’s a bold move on SandDisk’s part, and an interesting one by record labels. What do you guys think – is solid media doomed to rot, or do they have a shot at sticking around by targeting mobile? Keep an eye out for slotMusic at Wal Mart and Best Buy in the near future.
[SanDisk via National Post]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
