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| SanDisk Preloaded SlotMusic Cards—MicroSD Cards |
 The world’s four largest music companies and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading seller of MP3 players and flash memory cards in the United States, today unveiled the full list of artists joining the inaugural slotMusic line-up. Starting this week, music fans can purchase slotMusic cards—microSD™ cards with pre-loaded, high quality, DRM-free MP3 music—featuring new release albums from favorite artists like Coldplay, Katy Perry, Leona Lewis, Rihanna and Robin Thicke and catalog titles from Elvis, Abba and more. Within days of shipping, slotMusic cards will arrive on the shelves of Best Buy and Wal-Mart in the United States, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of US$14.99.slotMusic makes today’s hottest music available on interoperable microSD cards that let fans instantly plug and play albums into their microSD slot-enabled mobile phones, portable media players, computers, and an increasing number of car stereos More than just your typical music albums or single downloads, slotMusic cards boast 1GB1 (gigabyte) of capacity to offer artists a compelling new way to express themselves to their fans. In addition to songs, slotMusic cards may hold liner notes, album art, videos and other creative content that an artist may choose. Grammy™-winning recording artist Robin Thicke, is utilizing the additional space on his card to add exclusive videos, behind the scenes footage and photos, personally chosen by Thicke to share with his fans. Dozens of popular artists from EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group are making their debut on slotMusic cards in time for the holidays, including: * ABBA * Chris Brown * Coldplay * Connie Talbot * Daughtry * Don’t Quit Fitness Bundle * Elvis Presley * Five Finger Death Punch * Jimi Hendrix * Jimmy Buffet * Katy Perry * Keane * Kelly Clarkson * Kiss * Leona Lewis * Lynyrd Skynyrd * Metro Station * MIA * Nelly * New Kids On the Block * Ne-Yo * Nickelback * Pussycat Dolls * Rihanna * Rise Against * Robin Thicke * Saving Abel * Shwayze * Solange * Sugarland * Tim McGraw * Toby Keith * Usher * Weezer * Young Jeezy Consumers can expect additional releases from other artists before the end of the year. slotMusic has an unparalleled, pre-existing installed base at launch: hundreds of millions of multimedia-phones. slotMusic cards are packaged with a tiny USB adapter (a US$9.99 value) ensuring seamless interoperability with all computers – Windows, Linux and Mac—and enabling music fans to move their music to any music management software program or MP3 music device. The MP3-based music tracks will be played back at up to 320 kilobits per second (kbps), offering a high quality audio experience. slotMusic cards are expected to be available in Europe in 2009. SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), inventor of the ubiquitous microSD format, is leading the technology development behind slotMusic. For more information regarding slotMusic, please visit www.slotmusic.org. |
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About Sandisk
Founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari, an internationally recognized
authority on non-volatile memory technology, SanDisk has grown to
become the world's largest supplier of innovative flash memory data
storage products.
Serving both consumers (with more than 200,000 retail storefronts
worldwide) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), SanDisk
designs, develops, manufactures and markets flash storage card products
for a wide variety of electronic systems and digital devices. SanDisk
also licenses its technology to a number of other industry-leading
companies.
With flash memory's capability for storing large amounts of data
in a compact, removable format, SanDisk's products have helped drive
the exponential growth in sales of digital cameras, multi-function
mobile phones, USB flash drives, digital audio/video players, and other
digital consumer devices.
SanDisk currently has approximately 780 issued U.S. patents, and
more than 400 foreign patents, and is the only company, worldwide, that
has the rights to both manufacture and sell every major flash card
format, including CompactFlash®, SD™, miniSD™, microSD™,
MultiMediaCard™, Reduced Size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC™ ), Memory Stick
PRO™ and related Memory Stick® products, xD-Picture Card™ and USB flash
drives.
SanDisk became a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:SNDK) in November 1995, and in 2006 revenues grew to $3.3 billion. With more than 2000 employees, worldwide, SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
