I have no idea what SanDisk was thinking of when they sent out emails to the press on Friday when they let the cat out of the bag by confirming what the topic of today’s Microsoft announcement was going to be. Microsoft never told anyone what the announcement was about, even though speculation pretty much confirmed what we were going to hear about. Still, a company like SanDisk should know better than to send out such a note before the official announcement. The funny thing is there isn’t even a microSD card slot on the new KIN devices so SanDisk was just trying to gain attention when they don’t even have a product that works with these new cellphones.
Here is what they sent out on Friday:
As you know, Monday marks a big day for Microsoft as the company will be unveiling its long-awaited “pink” mobile phone. As you gear up to cover this news, I wanted to remind you that SanDisk microSD cards are the ideal companion for mobile devices and provide phones with room for just about anything.
That was pretty classless for SanDisk to send out such a notice like that and I am sure a few Microsoft people were angry with it. It actually makes them look pretty stupid too since the KIN devices actually cannot work with their products.
Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.
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Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
