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Has anyone heard of this yet?

http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/e...?action=details

Search for the Innogear product using the menu on the page.

These tiny drives allow you to store 500 meg of data and are each around the size of a quarter. Innogear appears to have a concept model for a Springboard module that allows them to be read by the Handspring devices. Maybe it will include the features of the MiniJam too.

G. Scott Taulbee

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PDABuzz.com had a mention of a Dataplay compatible minijam spotted at CES this week, so either that one has the capabilities or they're retrofitting the Minijam to allow Dataplay storage instead of MMC. This sounds like a killer idea, and it appears that Innogear isn't hyping it yet, so maybe they've learned from their Sixpak fiascos.

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I hope thats a very early prototype becuase that thing is HUGE looking.

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DataPlay Module

TWICE (This Week in Consumer Electronics) reported in this week's CES issue that HandSpring was developing a DataPlay SpringBoard, but there were no specifics. Elsewhere, it's mentioned that the DataPlay hardware (for any capacity) won't be available until September (Q3).

My question is - since DataPlay is a disk-based medium, wouldn't the power requirements be the same or simlar to a Microdrive?

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It probably has it's own internal power supply, that's why it's so big. I bet it either has rechargeables or uses AA's or AAA's.

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Re: DataPlay Module

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Originally posted by critic
My question is - since DataPlay is a disk-based medium, wouldn't the power requirements be the same or simlar to a Microdrive?

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If it also has the same functions as the minijam (and possibly other functions) , I'd bet it pushes it way over the power limits of the springboard slot specifications. My minijam draws a lot of power just by itself.

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I was interested by this springboard till I read James's review and discovered it has "ContentKey�" -- Forget it now, unless it's going to be sold dirt cheap (which I also doubt).. I try not to support devices with built in copy protection hardware. Just another DIVX (although not nearly as bad).

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Since its from Innogear, I'll believe it exists when I see it on store shelves.