Thread: If you could change some things on the 505, what would it be?
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Old 10-21-2008, 02:37 PM   #59
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Originally Posted by ProDigit View Post
I agree 2 slots already is a bit much; many readers do with only one single SD card slot.
By the way, if you have the money, try buying a 16GB or 32GB (costs around 180 for the 32GB) SD card and see if it works in the reader!
I've read online SDHC cards have a theoretical limit of 2TB, but due to cost and probably marketing has limited it to 32GB.
I have 2 8GB cards, I've heard that a 16GB worked, but the real problem is the software not being able to handle the storage space. I definately would not want only 1 expansion slot, that's one of the things that turned me off of the Kindle. More expansion is always a good thing.

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Originally Posted by ProDigit View Post
The only reason the reader has 2 cardslots is because Sony was probably hoping it could push new life into it's dying multi media cards.
I still have a 128mb mmc card laying around from my psp, so I can test which one works the fastest (SD or MMC)!

I'd not really go for extra cardslots, but just keep it with 1 SD cardslot, and perhaps a bigger internal SSD drive. I mean, prices of SSD drives have fallen about half the price for a 4GB drive since 1,5 years ago, so equipping the reader with a faster 4 to 8GB drive would do no harm. And also support for greater than 8GB SD cards!
For books it wouldn't make much sense, but sony gave it an audio player.
If sony would remove the indexing process when inserting an SD card in the slot, I think many people would be happy with that and just 1 SD slot. Then it's just replugging an SD card, and there you go! an additional 8GB of data (that'd be around 10.000 books, or 1.600 mp3 files!, calculating books to be around 800kb per ebook, or 5 minutes per song, 144kbits MP3 or 1MB/minute)
I have an ipod, which plays mp3s quite nicely. I don't use my ipod to read books, nor do I wish to use my book reader to play audio. Give me the books!!
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