Article: Matsushita to introduce mobile audio player rivaling iPod.

Mar. 17--OSAKA -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Thursday it will put on the market April 8 the D-snap, a mobile digital handset that can play music transferred from compact disks onto an SD card.

Unlike Apple Computer Inc.'s iPods that store music on a hard disk, the D-snap, measuring 7 centimeters by 2.2 cm by 1.4 cm, features a range of SD cards with memory capacities of up to 1 gigabyte.

An SD card is an ultra-thin memory storage device the size of a postage stamp.

Music is transferred to an SD card from CDs using a personal computer with an SD card slot. An SD card with 1 gigabyte memory capacity can carry data equivalent to 500 ...

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