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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2006
Report predicts growth for handset
memory cards
A new report highlights the rapid adoption of small format removable memory cards in cellphones and details the 160% growth in global slotted phone sales between 2004 and 2005.
The latest report from the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service: "MicroSD dominating demand in slotted phones", highlights the rapid adoption of small format removable memory cards in cellphones and details the 160% growth in global slotted phone sales between 2004 and 2005 Over the next five years, sales of slotted phones - cellphones with a removable memory card slot - are expected to grow at an annual average rate of 52%, with almost three-quarters of all new phones sold in 2010 likely to include a slot
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Meanwhile, sales of memory cards for cellphones are expected to grow at a rate of 53% over the next five years, reaching almost 1.1 billion cards by 2010.
According to Stuart Robinson, Director of the Handset Component Technologies service: "MicroSD has rapidly become the format of choice for new mobile phone designs, with design wins far exceeding those for MMCmicro and Sony's new micro-sized format, the M2".
"While the M2 will quickly replace the larger Memory Stick formats, it will remain a long way behind the microSD format and some way behind the MMCmicro format in cellphones".
Commenting on the trends in card capacity, Stephen Entwistle, Vice President of the company's Strategic Technologies Practice, added: "In 2005 the average capacity of memory cards sold for use in cellphones was 112Mbyte per card".
"By 2010 we predict that this will have increased to around 1.6Gbyte, equivalent to an annual average growth rate of over 70%".
The report provides detailed forecasts for each of the 11 card formats currently used in mobile phones, together with installed base estimates of phones and memory card sales by format in unit and revenue terms.
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