Personally, I think that Secure Digital flash cards are plenty small. They are no bigger than a postage stamp, and their biggest shortcoming, in my mind, is that you have to be careful not to lose them! However, in the world of electronics, smaller is always better, and SanDisk is moving in that direction.
At the Las Vegas CES, they are introducing the miniSD card, available in a 2 GB capacity. If that is still too large of a form factor, then the microSD, is even smaller, and will be released in a 1 GB capacity.
Why do we need these smaller cards? Expect them to be used in a new Verizon Wireless broadband multimedia service which is debuting next month. The cards are to provide storage for the Verizon cell phones and their multimedia content. Both miniSD, and microSD can be used in regular SD slots via an adaptor.At the rate we're going, I expect the nanoSD to be introduced at CES 2007.
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