- To: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] SIM cards as cheap data storage?
- From: "Martin Visser" <martinvisser99@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:55:18 +1000
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You haven't mentioned a physical size requiment. Untethered SIM cards
(and probably SD cards) are a tad small - and too easily lost.
Also is security/privacy and reliability an issue?
Rather SIM - what about the phone itself. In 1st world countries we
are approaching 1:1 ratio. Provide you connect to the phone
(Bluetooth/GSM/IR) it is a pretty good storage device that people tend
to look after. (bCode uses this principle for it's ticketing scheme)
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am looking for a cheap data storage solution for many people. The
> requirements are as follows:
>
> * CHEAP (very important)
> * storage space isn't important - maybe a couple of hundred kilobytes max.
> * media can be lost and replaced without much trouble/cost
> * media can be easily read/written by an ordinary Linux computer
> * media and media reader must be reasonably durable
> * scalable: the media should be distributable to millions of people
>
> Flash memory is too expensive - I'm looking for cards that cost <$1
> each. I was thinking that SIM cards (like what you get in your phone)
> would fit the bill. Is it possible to use these as a generic storage
> medium? All the information I could find on USB SIM card readers
> mention that the SIM is accessed as a serial rather than a storage
> device.
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Regards, Martin
Martin Visser
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