Windows Phone Thoughts: Got X-Scale? Got SD? You have SDIO!

One of my MVP buds, Jared Miniman, also of pocketnow fame, was at CES last week. He had this bit of info to share:

"Throughout CES, I had my MVP hat on. When I had the chance to speak with a marketing guy who had a great deal of engineering expertise (gasp!!), I jumped at the opportunity to get my questions out. I spoke with a rep from SyChip, who are delivering Socket's SD WiFi card to begin shipping in March (I assume most of this is under NDA). He delivered this gem of information:
1. Any XScale processor device will support SDIO without an on-SD-Card clock handler chip. Why? The PXA250 chipset has built-in support for 1-bit (SDIO) SD!
2. Any OMAP processor device will also support SDIO for the same reason. So . . . all the Smartphones announced so far with OMAP--you guessed it--can theoretically support SDIO."

Now, this doesn't mean you can stick an SD Bluetooth card in your HP iPAQ h1910, the drivers don't exist yet, but if this info proves to be correct, it means it is just a matter of drivers being written. Very cool. 8)