"We believe that smartphones provide the dual functionality of a music player and a mobile phone in single portable device, and hence are being increasingly preferred by consumers over a standalone devices like the iPod, Sansa and Zune.

We estimate that the global PMP market will decline from 196 million units sold in 2009 to 170 million units by the end of the Trefis forecast period."

With that, the information is not new to SNDK, or the industry in general. They're all considering that type of contraction.

With that, will SNDK enter the phone market? If not, they become a memory commodity issue only. That video maplecity linked says differently of what they want....they want to be in the business of CE devices.

What is e.Digitals game plan in naming SNDK ?????

IMO, Proving a point, that when it comes to the user device ....e.g PMP's , phones...etc....SNDK has no work around implementing and formatting its own memory.

Of all the current cases, SNDK is the most important, because it actually owns patented methods of management, be it bad memory cells or data that it can implement through virtual bit mapping. e.Digital must hit them hard in order to get the recognition.

When, or, if its proven they are not utilizing their own methods, what does that say for e.Digitals patented methods?

Are you all following the MSFT / RIMM rumors? IMO, they are true, MSFT is not stupid and they're not going to sit still and just be considered a commidity type stock...might SNDK be listening to those rumors?

IMO, big shakeups coming....everyone is sick of looking at the stagnation of certain companies.

doni

The suit against SNDK, IMO, is a