The largest capacity miniSD in the World

Pretec Press Release Summary:
Taipei, Taiwan December 3, 2005 –– Pretec Electronics Corp., the 1st in the world to demonstrate MMC 4.0 card since 2004, and the 1st in the world to offer 4GB SD card since July 2005, has released 2GB miniSD™, the largest capacity miniSD card today at IT Month 2005 (Hall 3, Booth G165) in Taipei.

Mobile devices using the Pretec 2GB miniSD card can store more than 500 MP3 songs or more than 4000 digital photos. The Pretec 2GB miniSD™ card also provides a tremendous advantage for the latest multimedia mobile phones designed with a miniSD™ slot, which typically require larger capacity when hours of recorded audio and/or video data (such as MPEG4 movie) are needed; the 1st in the world, Pretec 2GB miniSD™ card can extend from 0.5-1 hour of high quality MPEG-4 playback/recording to 1-2 hours by doubling or even quadrupling the maximum capacity available for today’s advanced high quality PDA/mobile phones.

Pretec is the first in the world to provide the largest capacity SD card (4GB); now available from major retail channels in USA such as Fry’s and Radioshack.  Pretec 2GB miniSD™ is available now with retail price of US$299 each, scheduled to hit retail stores around the world for Christmas season.

About Pretec

Pretec™ Electronics Corp. (http://www.pretec.com) offers a complete spectrum of small form factor memory cards and card readers such as CF, MMC, SD, and USB Flash Drive for the digital imaging, mobile communication, and industrial control markets. As the world’s 2nd company to offer CF card since 1995, Pretec has consistently demonstrated the highest capacity cards in the world; such as CF card 80MB, 128MB, 160MB, 320MB, 640MB, 1.5GB, 3GB, 6GB and 12GB CF card at various locations around the world for the past seven years; MMC card 1GB and 4GB; USB Flash Drive 8GB; and SD card 4GB. With more than 100 patents granted or filed, Pretec has also been offering the highest speed cards in the world such as CF 80X (2004), MMC 4.0 150X (2004), USB 166X/266X (2005), SD 133X (2005), MMCplus™ 266X (2005), i-Disk Tiny (“Best Gear of 2003” by TIME Magazine) and smallest size USB Flash drive in the world such as i-Disk Diamond / Cu-Flash (2005).

*Note: i-Disk, i-Disk Tiny, CU-Flash are trademarks of Pretec Electronics Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned herein are recognized as the property of their respective holders.