shuyin198x - yes, they do, but it's not a consumer friendly move, and consumers will react, leading to Sony having to, say, not require proprietary software to copy songs, or include dual MS / SD options.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly huh, but I just letting you know that you can just drag and drop MP3 files onto the K850. No need for any software whatsoever.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly huh, but I just letting you know that you can just drag and drop MP3 files onto the K850. No need for any software whatsoever.
DAZA, that was my point. Sony had to concede to popular demand and not require proprietary software, unlike their earlier mp3 offerings. Perhaps I was being too subtle.
@huh I think you are incorrectly under the impression that SE phones require the disc2phone app for file and music transfers. This might have been the case with the very first model, but of the three I have owned in the last 2-3 years, all have supported drag and drop file transfers. It might also be that you are confusing SE phones with Sony mp3 players that did until very recently require the user to download music to them with Sony's proprietary software (and in some cases, music codec) and didn't allow drag and drop transfer through windows explorer. In any case, Sony has already announced along with a few other leading portable device makers that it will be developing a unified flash storage format. I don't exactly see how this is a good thing, as variety breeds competition, and competition drives innovation forward and prices down. SD cards wouldn't be 10 pecent cheaper then MS cards on average if they were the only medium on the market now, would they?
Cash, once again, I guess my point was missed, that by inference if Sony is now supporting non-MS formats they are also supporting, by capitulation (have to use the big words so people will bow down, otherwise one gets "lowest ranked") non proprietary data transfer. In fact I have a Sony phone that supports drag and drop. My point was ironic, a bad strategy word to word in the crowds of Engadget.
I agree competition breeds the best products. But it's a market that could use some higher level than USB compatibilities, that is plug in form factor. So you can plug in the latest memory card in your notebook, cell phone, whatever, and expect it to work, rather than the cheesy consumer brand experience Sony was trying to project.
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can you just add a feature to engadget that ignores anything that uses memory stick? seriously.
Whats wrong with them? If its their brand they have every right to use their own branded memory.
Actually, the K850i uses a dual Memory Stick Micro/MicroSD card slot.
shaliron - interesting! Glad to hear Sony is finally conceding to the more popular standard.
shuyin198x - yes, they do, but it's not a consumer friendly move, and consumers will react, leading to Sony having to, say, not require proprietary software to copy songs, or include dual MS / SD options.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly huh, but I just letting you know that you can just drag and drop MP3 files onto the K850. No need for any software whatsoever.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly huh, but I just letting you know that you can just drag and drop MP3 files onto the K850. No need for any software whatsoever.
DAZA, that was my point. Sony had to concede to popular demand and not require proprietary software, unlike their earlier mp3 offerings. Perhaps I was being too subtle.
@huh
I think you are incorrectly under the impression that SE phones require the disc2phone app for file and music transfers. This might have been the case with the very first model, but of the three I have owned in the last 2-3 years, all have supported drag and drop file transfers. It might also be that you are confusing SE phones with Sony mp3 players that did until very recently require the user to download music to them with Sony's proprietary software (and in some cases, music codec) and didn't allow drag and drop transfer through windows explorer. In any case, Sony has already announced along with a few other leading portable device makers that it will be developing a unified flash storage format. I don't exactly see how this is a good thing, as variety breeds competition, and competition drives innovation forward and prices down. SD cards wouldn't be 10 pecent cheaper then MS cards on average if they were the only medium on the market now, would they?
Cash, once again, I guess my point was missed, that by inference if Sony is now supporting non-MS formats they are also supporting, by capitulation (have to use the big words so people will bow down, otherwise one gets "lowest ranked") non proprietary data transfer. In fact I have a Sony phone that supports drag and drop. My point was ironic, a bad strategy word to word in the crowds of Engadget.
I agree competition breeds the best products. But it's a market that could use some higher level than USB compatibilities, that is plug in form factor. So you can plug in the latest memory card in your notebook, cell phone, whatever, and expect it to work, rather than the cheesy consumer brand experience Sony was trying to project.