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In News From The Wire on Thursday, I made quick mention of the slotRadio+ microSD card, which comes with 1,000 songs and an additional 4GB of storage for $50. I mentioned it to a few friends and acquaintances this weekend, and a few wanted to hear a bit more, so I thought I would expand on it today. On Thursday I mentioned that for $50, each song works out to 5 cents, with the card coming free. But, looking further into the card, it’s not quite that easy. It’s still a good deal, I think, but you’re limited in what you can do with those songs.

The slotRadio+ card comes from SanDisk, and it comes in two varieties, Decades and Hits. Each contains 1,000 songs broken down into eight playlists. The catch, and why the songs cost so little, is that you must play the tracks in playlist order. You can skip songs whenever, and you can change playlists at will, but you can’t put them on shuffle or rearrange them.

The songs reside in a read-only section of the memory card, so no matter what you do with the other 4GB you’ll always have the original 1,000 songs. To play the songs you have to download the slotRadio player, which connects to Verizon’s V CAST Music. Here they’ll try to sell you the ringtones and ringback tones for the songs on the memory card — they even try to sell you the songs themselves, so you can own them.

Clearly this isn’t for everyone, but I can see why some BlackBerry users would enjoy something like this. You can get the slotRadio+ for the Storm, Storm 2, Curves 8530 and 8330, Tour, Pearl 8130, Pearl 8230, and Tour. The HITS and DECADES cards are available at Verizon’s website.

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