The Multimedia Card (MMC) is a cards, but still see significant use because MMC cards can be used in any device which supports SD cards.

Typically, an MMC card is used as storage media for a portable device, in a form that can easily be removed for access by a Personal computer. For example, a digital camera would use an MMC card for storing image files. With an MMC reader (typically a small box that connects via USB or some other serial connection), a user could copy the pictures taken with the digital camera off to his or her computer. Modern computers, both laptops and desktops, often have SD slots, which can read MMC cards.

MMC cards are currently available in sizes up to and including 2 gigabyte, and are used in almost every context in which memory cards are used, like cell phones, mp3 players, digital cameras, and Personal digital assistant. Since the introduction of Secure Digital few companies build MMC slots into their devices, but the slightly-thinner, pin-compatible MMC cards can be used in any device that supports SD cards. A handful of companies, most notably Nokia, still support MMC exclusively, however.

=Reduced-Size Multimedia Card (RS-MMC)=

MMC cards also come in a smaller form factor, of about half the size: 24mm x 16mm x 1.5mm. This alternate form factor is known as Reduced-Size Multimedia Card, or RS-MMC, and was introduced in 2004. RS-MMC cards are simply smaller MMC cards; by using a simple mechanical adapter to elongate the card, an RS-MMC card can be used in any MMC (or SD) slot. RS-MMC cards are currently available in sizes up to and including 1 GB.

The only significant hardware licensor of RS-MMC cards is Nokia, who often uses RS-MMC in their Series 60 Symbian smartphones. Newer RS-MMC cards, used in Nokia s newer phones (like the Nokia 6630 and Nokia 6680), support a lower voltage (1.8 V instead of 3 V) mode to reduce battery demand, and these lower-voltage RS-MMC cards, known as Dual Voltage Reduced Size MMC, and can be marketed as MMCmobile when they meet the MMC mobile card standards. These low-voltage cards are backwards compatible with older RS-MMC devices. The dual voltage cards, and the MMC mobile are part of the MMC 4.x standards.

=MMC 4.x and secureMMC=

Standard 4.x (4.0, 4.1, etc) was released in 2005 (MMCA System Specification 4.1). This new standard involves the higher performance MMC4 (with the same basic MMC form factor but more pins) and called MMC plus and RSS-MC4, marketed as MMC mobile . MMC mobile mirrors the old RSS-MC in that it has the same connections and connection standard, but is about half the size as regular MMC cards. Also in the works is secureMMC, which will feature encryption features similar to Secure Digital or MagicGate Memory Sticks.

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