Our friends at fring’s Indian Blog recently posted this news:

Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson are thinking of collaborating on having a “Universal Flash Storage specification”. If this works out then we won’t be facing memory card format issues for the many memory hungry gadgets we own.

This collaboration isn’t going to happen over night though; with something estimates pointing to late next year, so don’t get too excited till the official word is out. The sad thing is that new devices that support the Universal format would still need to be developed and also that our old memory cards would be useless.

These talks of collaboration are not limited to Nokia, Samsung etc, other big players include, memory manufacturers like: Micron Technology Inc., Spansion LLC, STMicroelectronics NV, and Texas Instruments Inc.

This collaboration is long over due and I wish it would happen faster.