NTT DoCoMo has developed its first “FOMA” compact flash card, which will enable 3G videophone and other wireless data communication via PCs and PDAs. The card supports packet transmissions of up to 384 kbps for downlinks and 64 kbps for uplinks, as well as 64 kbps for circuit-switched data transmissions.
NTT DoCoMo Develops FOMA Compact Flash Card
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You just read about Flash. Here is what it replaced:
EPROM (UV-erasable) served 1971–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
EPROM (UV-erasable) floating-gate ROM erased by shining ultraviolet light through a quartz window, then reprogrammed on a special programmer. Its job passed to Flash — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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