According to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, Sprint is looking to bring in some extra money by renting out the use of its excess capacity to consumer electronics makers. Sprint is in active talks with companies such as Garmin, SanDisk and Eastman Kodak, and will allow for the wireless delivery of information to [...]

Today SanDisk announced a new initiative that is aimed at allowing mobile network operators to deliver and control content via microSD cards. The SanDisk Service Delivery Card (SDC) will allow carriers to offer custom branded service discovery experience while also giving them a physical delivery mechanism to get operator-branded services onto a multitude of different [...]

Twelve new companies, including HP, Qualcomm and MySpace, are joining the Nokia-led Symbian Foundation. Nokia bought Symbian in 2008 and plans to create a new, open-source base for the mobile platform. It has gathered 78 member companies into the Symbian Foundation. Other firms joining today are Atelier, Bank of America, Gemalto, Imagination Technologies, Mobica, Nanoradio, [...]

LG and SanDisk have created a new content protection service that will allow mobile network operators to disseminate or preload content onto removable memory cards — such as microSD or M2 — in mobile phones. The content could not, however, be played in phones and/or devices that are not part of the the operator’s network. [...]

SanDisk and Sony are collaborating on the next generation of Memory Stick products. The Memory Stick HG Micro is a format expanded from Memory Stick Micro (M2). This new format features an increased interface clock frequency, which enables 60Mbps data transfer speed. This is three times faster than current M2 cards. Capacities are also being [...]

SanDisk has revealed the ship dates and price points of its 16GB memory cards. The 16GB SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) have MSRP’s of $119.99 and $129.99, respectively. They will begin shipping by the end of January.Read more from the sourceRelated Keywords for this posts:cell phone batteries, international call, store, prepaid [...]

SanDisk has revealed the ship dates and price points of its 16GB memory cards. The 16GB SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) have MSRP’s of $119.99 and $129.99, respectively. They will begin shipping by the end of January.Read more from the sourceRelated Keywords for this posts:cell phone batteries, international call, store, prepaid [...]

Candy bar phone with a face that slides up to reveal a numeric keypad and down to reveal integrated stereo speakers
Built-in clickwheel for easy navigation of menus and music
GPS, Bluetooth, and high-speed EVDO data connections
Two-megapixel camera
Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV compatible
Includes 1GB microSD card and 3.5mm headset w/ microphone
MSRP of $99 after two-year agreement [...]

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 [...]