Patent ID: 8862821

Claim:
A method of managing external memory cards, the method comprising: receiving, via an input device of a portable device, the input device at least partly disposed within a body of the portable device, a selection of one of n electrical sockets in the portable device where n is an integer greater than one, each of the n electrical sockets being configured to accommodate and to electrically engage a removable external memory card, wherein the input device is a single selector with n+1 physical positions, the single selector being one of a rotatable selector configured to be rotated by a user to one of the n+1 physical positions or a slidable selector including a slidable member configured to be slid by the user to one of the n+1 physical positions, and wherein one of the n+1 physical positions is useable to switch off the portable device and each of a remaining n physical positions of the n+1 physical positions is associated with a respective one of the n electrical sockets; responsive to the selected electrical socket being electrically engaged to a removable external memory card: reading data from the removable external memory card; transferring information related to or derived from the read data to a speaker of the portable device, the speaker at least partly disposed within the body of the portable device; and presenting the information via the speaker, wherein the data is transmittable via a communication interface of the portable device to external device; and responsive to the selected electrical socket not being electrically engaged to a removable external memory card, presenting an error message via the speaker.