Nokia and Sony Ericsson Join SD Card Association

The SD Memory Card continues to be the leading semiconductor memory card for the wireless communications industry, as cellular handset marketing giants Nokia and Sony Ericsson join the SD Card Association (SDA). Nokia joined SDA as a member of its Board of Directors. Sony Ericsson is the world's largest producer of mobile networks and third largest handset supplier. Sony Ericsson and Nokia join Motorola, Samsung, palmOne, Sharp, Panasonic, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu, Kyocera and other leading marketers of SD and miniSD-enabled mobile phones around the world.





The SD Memory Card is the number one semiconductor memory card in use worldwide today, and is found in a wide array of consumer electronics products such as digital cameras, camcorders, PDAs, laptop computers, digital audio players and many other products. In total, 2,877 models in 31 product categories by 238 brands supporting the SD standard have been shipped to date.

Mobile phone users increasingly demand more sophisticated applications from devices. Handset manufacturers are looking to add capabilities such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and more to next-generation handsets. The SD Memory Card and miniSD Card are uniquely poised to support these functions, especially through SDIO.

In addition to the Mobile Phone Task Force, the SD Card Association established a Mobile Commerce specification, smartSD, that adds "smart card" security and other functionalities to the format. The SDA also approved the SD Map Specification that will help enable Location Based Services.

Source: press release

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