Give your mobile phone a memory boost...to 8 friggin gigs! No idea why you would need 8 gigs of memory on your cellphone but if you were so inclined, now you can go nuts thanks to US Modular's Stik&Stor memory modules. Now you can hold a bajillion useless pictures and songs that you will probably not listen too all that much, why? Because who listens to music on their cell phone? No one yet, that's who. Some of the features:

* 32-bit RISC core

* Integrated on-chip components

* MicroSD mechanical interface

* Compliant to the SD standard rev. 1.01

* Hardware support for the C2 encryption and decryption routines (CPRM)

* On-chip ECC

* Data transfer rate to flash memories: up to 40 MBytes/s

* Sophisticated software for wear leveling

* Automatic power-down mode and sleep mode

* Optimized pre-formatting

* Re-programmable firmware

Available: February 2006

1GB: $79 (flash)

2GB: $99 (flash)

4GB: $149 (micro drive)

8GB: $199 (micro drive)

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