SANDISK SLOTMUSIC CARDS NOW AVAILABLE AT SELECT BEST BUY, BEST BUY MOBILE AND CRICKET STORES NATIONWIDE
New Artists
Available on Plug-and-Play Flash Memory Cards Include Kanye West,
Keith Urban, P!nk, and Latin Sensation Wisin Y
Yandel
Milpitas, Calif., September 17,
2009 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global
leader in flash memory cards, today announced that its slotMusic™
entertainment cards are now available at mobile retail outlets
across the United States, including Best Buy stores, stand-alone
Best Buy Mobile stores and Cricket Communications, Inc. stores.
SanDisk slotMusic offerings give consumers the ability to instantly
load their favorite artist's album onto a mobile phone or other
microSD™ compatible device for a fast and convenient listening
experience.
SanDisk also announced that the
slotMusic catalogue is set to expand with popular albums from a
wide spectrum of artists, including Lady Gaga, Keith Urban, Black
Eyed Peas, Incubus and P!nk.
The new slotMusic cards are now
available in approximately 111 Best Buy Stores where they will be
merchandised with media and in 39 Best Buy Mobile stand-alone
stores that will carry six titles each on their accessory walls.
The new cards have also made their way into 65 Cricket stores in
Texas, Colorado, Arizona and other markets over the same time
period. Title selection and availability vary by store.
"With their knowledgeable staff and
vast selection of compatible phones, mobile retail stores allow
consumers to experience how fast and easy it is to load slotMusic
cards into their phone," said Hugh Cooney, senior director,
business development, SanDisk.
"Our customers have always relied on
their mobile phones for more than just communication, Cricket
customers truly utilize their phone as a portable entertainment
device," said Matt Stoiber, vice president and general manager,
devices, Cricket. "slotMusic entertainment provides our customers
with a new method of enjoying their favorite music on their Cricket
phone."
New albums announced on
slotMusic this month include:
- Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
- Incubus - Monuments and Melodies
- Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
- Keith Urban - Defying Gravity
- Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
- Keyshia Cole - A Different Me
- Lady Gaga - The Fame
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol. 31 - Compilation featuring
Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, The Ting Tings & more
- P!nk - Funhouse
- slotMusic Best of the 70s, featuring hits from Cheap Trick,
Blue Oyster Cult, Lou Reed, Santana & more
- slotMusic Best of the 80s, featuring hits from Rick
Springfield, Adam Ant, Bangles, Hall and Oates & more
- Wisin y Yandel - La Revolucion
Introduced by SanDisk and associated
record labels last fall, slotMusic cards contain full albums
encoded as high-fidelity, DRM-free (non-restricted)
MP3s.1 Many slotMusic cards also include liner notes,
album art, videos and other bonus content. The cards' simple
plug-and-play compatibility means consumers can quickly swap their
favorite music content between any compatible device with a microSD
slot, including mobile phones, MP3 players, car stereo systems and
personal computers.
slotMusic cards, slotMusic players,
and a host of accessories for both cards and players are also
available at associated click-and-mortar including MyCricket.com,
BestBuy.com, and slotMusic.org. Additionally, the music cards are
sold in stores, including at Best Buy (general retail) stores
throughout the United States.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards,
from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer
branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio
includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and
camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for
consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices;
and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500
company, with more than half its sales outside the United
States.
1 The slotMusic MP3-based
music tracks play back at up to 320 kilobits per second
(kbps).
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded
from:
http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/media-kit.aspx
SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
© 2009 SanDisk Corporation. SanDisk
and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation,
registered in the United States and other countries. slotMusic is a
trademark of SLOTmedia Group LLC. microSD is a trademark SD-3C LLC.
Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes
only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder (s).
This press release contains certain
forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product
introductions, specifications, applications, markets, and customers
that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous
risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking
statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these
forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others:
market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our
expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these
products in new markets that we are targeting, our products may not
perform as expected or may not be available at the prices, in the
regions or at the time expected and the other risks detailed from
time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and
reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent annual
report on Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form
10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this
press release.