Windows Phone Thoughts: One More for the Media Format Party: MicroSD

"Normally news that we’re going to have yet another flash memory card format to contend with would result in plenty of whining on our part about how there are way too many formats to deal with already, whining which may or may not be followed by some sort of plea for the manufacturers of the world to join hands and work together on common standards. But not this time around. . . . The new microSD card is going to be fully compatible with and have the same exact dimensions as TransFlash (both measure 11mm x 15mm x 1mm in size), and SanDisk has already announced plans to “transition” its TransFlash line to the microSD standard later this year. It sounds like everyone decided to spare us the pointless format war."


The Famous Four. (There are no pics of MicroSD yet, but it's the same size as Transflash).

So, it looks like we have another entrant to the overcrowded media format party. However this one is different. It looks like the SD standard has managed to swallow Transflash to produce a reasonable amount of compatibility. OK, you can only easily move smaller cards into adaptors on larger devices, but it's something. So, do you reckon we have the (W)holy Quartet then? CF, SD, MiniSD and MicroSD forever and ever amen? ;-) Will these four sizes/formats of media card be sufficient, or is there any reason to buy any other standard?