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Sony Ericsson ditching Memory Stick Micro; future handsets will use microSD

The handset maker finally veers away from Sony's exasperating proprietary storage format.

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Mobile | by Barb Dybwad | Wed Jun 3, 2009 4:06PM | 0 comments

Ding dong, the proprietary storage format is (almost) dead — Sony Ericsson will be abandoning Sony's ever-loving proprietary Memory Stick Micro in favor of microSD in all future handsets. Great news... except the PSP Go is still going to be using this infernal format. (PSP) Go figure.

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