SanDisk

June 4, 2007—SanDisk today introduced Cruzer® Professional and Cruzer® Enterprise, two USB flash drives that deliver strong security and state-of-the-art speed to business users.

Cruzer Professional is primarily for individuals and small businesses who want to protect crucial data while also making it easy to share selected files. Cruzer Enterprise is primarily for medium and large organizations that require mandatory policy enforcement, central management and regulatory compliance. Read more

April 9, 2007-SanDisk® Corporation the second largest seller of MP3 players in the United States, today announced a partnership with Yahoo! Music, Yahoo, Inc.’s music division, the number one online music destination, that involves the implementation of unique music services for SanDisk’s new Sansa® Connect™, a WiFi®-enabled MP3 player. The partnership pairs SanDisk’s new wireless MP3 player with both free and subscription-based services from Yahoo!, allowing consumers to stay constantly connected to their music, photos and friends via WiFi, with no PC required1.

The flash-based Sansa Connect MP3 player boasts several Yahoo! features that can be accessed with the simple click of a button and an open WiFi connection2. Owners with a Yahoo! ID can listen to LAUNCHcast Internet radio, browse Flickr sets and photos, and see what their Yahoo! Messenger friends and other Sansa Connect owners nearby are listening to. Sansa Connect users with a Yahoo! Music Unlimited To Go subscription are also able to discover and download music, as well as listen to or download tracks their friends are listening to or have recommended1. Read more

Jan. 9, 2007 – SanDisk just introduced its first widescreen portable media player dubbed the “Sansa® View.” The flash-based Sansa View is a sleek, yet simple video player that supports a wide array of content formats and comes equipped with a flash memory expansion slot. The announcement was made at CES, where SanDisk is exhibiting in South Hall 4, booth 36206, in the Las Vegas Convention Center through January 11.

While the Sansa View is a pocket-able player–one of the slimmest on the market today—it features a large 4”widescreen display for optimal viewing. In addition to a DVD-like quality video experience, the Sansa View can display photos (up to 16 megapixels), play music, or even combine the two in a slideshow format. The durable player also comes equipped with an integrated speaker for watching and listening to any content on the player with a friend. Read more

Jan. 9, 2007 – SanDisk just unveiled an affordable cable-less, flash-based MP3 player: the 1-gigabyte (GB) Sansa Express™. Designed for the value-conscious consumer, the compact Sansa Express stands out amongst the competition as an affordably priced device with many high-end features, including a microSD™ expansion slot, FM tuner, recording capabilities, data storage and a direct connection to a consumer’s computer – no USB cable required. The Sansa Express and other new SanDisk products are being demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in the SanDisk booth (#36206), South Hall-4 in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Read more

November 17, 2006 --SanDisk today announced that it is shipping special edition SanDisk SD memory cards to major retailers in conjunction with the release of Nintendo’s new Wii game console, which is compatible with removable flash memory to store game saves, download games and view digital photos.

The white cards, bearing the label “SanDisk For Wii,” will be available in three capacities – 512 megabytes (MB), 1 gigabyte (GB) and 2GB(1) – at gaming and major consumer electronics stores. Suggested retail prices range from $34.99 to $89.99. “We believe that the Nintendo Wii, with its physically interactive format and compelling games, will be a big hit this holiday season, and these co-branded flash cards will make it easy for gamers to purchase memory that allows for the portability of game saves between Wii consoles,” said Christina Day, SanDisk senior product marketing manager. Gail Tilden, vice president of brand management for Nintendo of America, headquartered in Redmond, Wash., said, “We’re happy to partner with SanDisk, the leading supplier of flash memory cards in the world, for our launch of the Nintendo Wii. In order for owners to use innovative features such as the Wii Photo Channel, an SD card is a vital accessory.” Read more

October 3, 2006 -- Today, Altec Lansing officially announced its new partnership with SanDisk Corporation, the inventor of flash storage cards and the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage card products that use its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. In 2004, the company expanded into the music entertainment sector with the introduction of a line of portable digital music players. And now, SanDisk has partnered with Altec Lansing, a leader in portable audio, to give users of its digital music players a way to enjoy their music out loud. The result of this partnership is the inMotion iM510, a portable speaker system for SanDisk Sansa players. Read more

Sep. 12, 2006 - SanDisk today announced a 4-gigabyte (GB) miniSD High Capacity (SDHC) flash card at the CTIA Wireless Show, where the company is exhibiting in Booth #1147.

The 4GB SanDisk miniSDHC card will be able to provide the fast speed and large capacity required to support increasingly popular but storage-intensive applications such as digital imaging, music and video record/playback functions as well as mobile television and videogames. The 4GB capacity can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures, more than 1,000 digital songs or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video. Read more

September 6, 2006 – SanDisk just introduced the V-Mate™ Video Memory Card Recorder at the IFA Show, where the company is exhibiting in Hall 2.1, Booth 103.

The ground-breaking V-Mate is a video memory card recorder, allowing users to record video from video inputs such as over-the-air television as well as cable, satellite, DVD players, personal video recorders (PVRs) like TiVo and video cassette recorders (VCRs) onto their flash memory cards. Consumers can then take their memory card from the V-Mate and insert it into their mobile phone, PDA, handheld game console like the Sony PSP™ (PlayStation® Portable), video music player or notebook computer to play back their videos on the go. Read more

September 6, 2006 – Producing big sound from a small device, the new Sansa™ Base Station from SanDisk® Corporation enables a Sansa MP3 player to become a digital jukebox and play hours of music through a home stereo system or externally-powered PC speaker set. This handy accessory, which also doubles as a docking station for recharging batteries and transferring content to and from a personal computer, was announced at IFA, where SanDisk is demonstrating its products through Sept. 6 at Booth 103 in Hall 2.1 of Messe Berlin.

The SanDisk Sansa Base Station supports the SanDisk e200 series of MP3 players, as well as the new c200 series that is being shown here for the first time. The device allows users to dock a player, connect to and play audio content through an external entertainment system instead of a headphone, operate the player with a remote control, automatically charge the internal batteries of the c200 and e200 players, and transfer data between the player and a PC. Read more

SEPT. 1, 2006 - SanDisk today introduced the Sansa™ c200 series, a stylish flash memory-based MP3 player that is loaded with high-end features -- such as a bright LCD color screen and a microSD™ expansion slot - and smashes the $100 price threshold for a 2-gigabyte (GB) player. The announcement was made at a press conference at IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics show, where SanDisk is exhibiting at Booth 103, in Hall 2.1 of Messe Berlin, through Sept. 6.

The c200 is sold in two capacities - 1 gigabyte (GB) and 2GB. However, the memory can be expanded with the addition of an optional SanDisk microSD™ card, which currently is available in capacities of from 256 megabytes (MB) to 2GB. For example, with a 2GB microSD card, a user can transform a 2GB player into a 4GB player to hold nearly 2,000 songs (at 64kbps). The c200 supports WMA, MP3 and the protected WMA DRM format that gives consumers the ability to purchase or subscribe to music from most music service providers. Read more