Sony Ericsson finally wises up and ditches Memory Stick Micro for microSD

If the newspaper headline sounds bitter, it’s because we are. For thirster than we maintenance to remember, Sony (and its mobile earphone manufacturing joint speculation, Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE)) has been push their proprietorship Memory Stick formatting on the worldly concern – only to find that their branch-spin tactics did little more than frustrate and annoy the mass marketplace. Thankfully, it looks like struggling Sony Ericsson isn’t going to net ball the mis-managed memory formatting puff down its bottom line anymore. Sony Ericsson has confirmed that they’ll be ditching the Memory Stick Micro (M2) format in favor of microSD circuit board slots in all its future French telephone.

The newsworthiness isn’t all that surprising, presumption Sony Ericsson’s new Yari, Aino and Satio handsets lineament a microSD circuit board one-armed bandit in place of the Memory Stick Micro slot that has plagued past tense Sony Ericsson phones. And, we’re expecting future Sony Ericsson phones to use the microSD formatting as well. In fact, Sony Ericsson volition be shifting their entire handset batting order away from MemoryStick, opting instead to manipulation the more widely-adopted (compared to the Sony-only MemoryStick format) microSD formatting in future phones.

Now, if only Sony would wise up and put option Memory Stick out to eatage. Would anyone miss Memory Stick?