Portable photo storage

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I always thought that since memory sticks are out in the market, there should be a compact sized card reader + storage for photo. Never occurred to me that such item does exist until a friend told me about it.

Since Junwen is coming to UK, we can take the opportunity and ask him to buy in Singapore (which is usually cheaper than buying in UK)

With the help of Junwen at Comex 2005, we narrower our search to 3 items :-
- X'S-Drive II Plus VP2160 Price S$119
- Compact Drive PD70X Price S$199
- Digimate II-PLUS Price S$99

Note : Price quoted are from Comex 2005 and without HDD.

Through long distance telephony communication across half the world, in the span of 2 hours, we managed to spend S$1,000 without touching, smelling (we mean the plasticky smell lar!) the items (how's that for shopping!!)

Items bought by Junwen :-
- Panasonic FX9 (black)
- Spare battery
- 1 GB SD card
- X'S-Drive II Plus VP2160

To comfort ourselves, these would cost us £480 if we buy them online in UK (excluding Ebay), thus we had saved about £150 by shopping in Singapore.

Too bad we got to wait for a month before Junwen is here with our new 'toys'....