Re:Howard Stern Is My Cousin (Score 1)

It always bugs me when uninformed people blast Memory Stick (the normal sized one) as proprietary. Its just as propeirtary as SD cards are, if not less. Multiple manufacturers produce memory sticks (Lexar, Sandisk, etc.), and more than one company employs them in their products (Samsung, Acer, etc.). Most new photo printers and multi-format flash card readers support Memory Stick. Capacity is catching up to and exceeding SD, and other features (price, reliability, etc.) reall stand out in favor of the MS, in my opinion.

However, the new Memory Stick Duo found on the P800 (the "smaller version" talked about here) is a horrible proprietary format with approximately equal size to (but not compatible with) SD cards, with lower MB sizes, higher prices, and only works in a standard MS slot with an adapter (which most likely be sold as an extra). I'd much rather get any Clie with bluetooth (even the TG-50 with the useless thumbboard... http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=49 31) than get an SD or MS-Duo device of any kind.