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According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Sandisk is expected to announced a new digital music player products and price cuts today in an effort to battle Apple’s iPod supremacy, notes Reuters. “Sandisk, which holds the second-largest market share in digital music players behind Apple, plans to introduce a US$249.99 MP3 player with 8GB of storage capacity,” notes the article.

SanDisk Corporation today announced that its 512MB microSD card is bundled with the new Motorola ROKR phone with iTunes that was introduced this week. The new iTunes-enabled Motorola phone can store approximately 120 songs — the equivalent of eight CDs worth of music — using the included SanDisk flash storage card.

SanDisk Corporation today introduced what they say is the world’s largest capacities of Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick PRO Duo and SD cards with 4GB, 1GB and 2GB capacities respectively.

SanDisk Corporation today introduced what it says is the world’s first 6-in-1 PC Card Adapter. The new adapter requires no software and works with six different memory card formats: SD, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, xD-Picture Card, and SmartMedia. To read a card, users insert it into the adapter and then slide the adapter into any computer with a PC Card slot.

SanDisk has introduced the 2 GB SanDisk Extreme and SanDisk Ultra II CompactFlash cards, the largest capacities available in the company’s line of CompactFlash cards for digital photographers. The cards are targeted mainly at the professional digital camera and prosumer markets where 4 megapixel or higher resolution digital cameras require faster digital filmcards. Each of the new cards features a minimum write speed of 9MB per second and a minimum read speed of 10MB per second.

SanDisk has introduced the ImageMate 8-in-1 media card reader, which has four slots that accept all industry-standard storage cards including CompactFlash Type I and II cards, SmartMedia, SD card, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and the xD-Picture Card. The four slots can be used simultaneously to transfer data between individual cards and/or your Mac.

SanDisk today introduced the SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash and SD line of high performance memory cards designed for professional photographers. The cards deliver a minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and a minimum read speed of 10MB/sec. throughout their extended operating temperature range, making these “the fastest flash memory cards in the world,” according to the company.

SanDisk Corporation today introduced its Cruzer Mini, an embedded USB 2.0 hi-speed “key chain” flash drive about the size of a lipstick case. Cruzer Mini is one of the world’s smallest flash memory drives and uses the latest USB interface technology to achieve the maximum data transfer rates possible today, according to the press release.

SanDisk Corporation today introduced a new line of single slot ImageMate card readers for a variety of popular flash memory cards. The new readers are available in four models that fit a variety of storage cards: CompactFlash Type I & II, MultiMediaCards and SD, Memory Stick and Memory Stick PRO, and SmartMedia and xD Picture Card.

SanDisk today introduced the Ultra ImageMate Reader, a new FireWire CompactFlash card reader. The device features high-speed transfer rates for larger capacity media, a blue LED light that indicates the reader is properly connected, and accepts both Type I and Type II CompactFlash formats. The FireWire ImageMate Reader works with both Macs and PCs, and will be available in October, priced at US$69. Read More

SanDisk today introduced the ImageMate 6-in-1 memory card reader utilizing USB 2.0. The reader has slots for CompactFlash Type I/II, SmartMedia, SD, Memory Stick and the MultiMediaCard. It is also backward compatible and can be used with computers based on USB 1.1. The new reader has a suggested retail price of US$49.99 and will be available in October.