It has signed up 136 companies to use its product, which was introduced in 1998. Last year Sony also sold about the same number of items that take the memory sticks. And while the size difference between the two standards does not seem to be that much when considering that they hold 64Mb, Sony has announced it would be halving the size of its Memory Stick, complete with a little holder, so the smaller one would be backward-compatible. One of the Gadgets that captured Gadgetman's attention was the Panasonic e.wear SD audio player. The picture above shows the exploded view of the unit, which with a 64Mb memory card can play about an hour of music.
Prices are sure to drop as the competition for a dominant format continues.
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