BlueProton USB 2.0 6-in-1 Single Slot Memory Card Reader Writer for SD SDHC MiniSD MMC rsMMC (BLACK)

by BlueProton

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0019447JQ
• Item model number: BPSDRBLK
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 7, 2008

Product Description

The BlueProton USB 2.0 6in1 Card Reader/Writer is a high speed device that will enable you to quickly transfer photos and other digital files from a variety of flash memory card formats. Compatibility includes SD, SDHC (high capacity 4GB), miniSD, miniSDHC, MMC, rsMMC.

Customer Reviews

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133 of 143 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BlueTron a true rip off, free with a SDHC card then charge $16, February 13, 2009

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HSLee "Laughter brings happiness" (Global Trotter) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BlueProton USB 2.0 6-in-1 Single Slot Memory Card Reader Writer for SD SDHC MiniSD MMC rsMMC (BLACK) (Personal Computers)

I have ordered two 4gb SDHC cards and this was a special offer(free) to go with it. When I checked them out, they charged $16 for s/h. Then I realized that it wasn't free after all.

Last time I shopped the similar one, they offered the blue card reader, with a red LED light that shows the transfer of your files to USB port. This black one does not have that simple feature.

This one or the blue one, while plugged into USB, the cap is being separated and hence very easy to be missing.

When I contacted BlueTron to explain about the overcharge, they ignored my question for 14 days, and, when I left a negative feedback to their profile, they wrote me back, still refusing to explain why but to simply ask me to return them if it was faulty. I never said neither item was faulty. It shows how poor they run their business. Don't get fooled like I did. Spend money for something better, not for this deceptive freebie offer.

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not free OR a good product, September 6, 2009

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L. Ryffel "Photog Italia" (AUBURN, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BlueProton USB 2.0 6-in-1 Single Slot Memory Card Reader Writer for SD SDHC MiniSD MMC rsMMC (BLACK) (Personal Computers)

This "freebie" actually turned out to cost me more in shipping that the full price product. Not only that, I got two of them and neither work.

I'd consider this product a class A ripoff, and couldn't see recommending it to anyone.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok if free or cheap, works but has design problems, February 16, 2009

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Catherine Michael "catherinemichael" (Sacramento CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BlueProton USB 2.0 6-in-1 Single Slot Memory Card Reader Writer for SD SDHC MiniSD MMC rsMMC (BLACK) (Personal Computers)

I got this as "freebie" with a 16GB card. Mine has the red "working light", which is handy to remind me I've got a removable device attached.

Vista reacts a bit strangely to it with requests to "insert media", but if you ignore that (like you ignore most of Vista's overkill granny messages), it works fine as a removable drive. (I don't swap cards when it is in the laptop, so don't know if that in fact works.) Mostly use it with the same card in it.
Seems to be quite fast and reliable.

However, like others, I'm a bit queasy about the construction: the plastic case is extremely thin; if you even lightly pinch the case in the middle over the circuitry, it gives and "crackles". The edges where the caps fit and card is inserted are also very thin and look like they'd be easily chipped.

The caps are easily lost/misplaced (I've had to search through the covers when using laptop in bed and absentmindedly put cap down on the bed instead of night table. Thankfully, I don't have a cat, which would probably think the cap was a great toy.) Also the caps pull off very easily; I keep the device in a small pocket in my laptop case, and sometimes the cap comes off when I pull the device out and it happens that I've only got hold of the cap.

I also tend to try to insert it in the port upside down half the time.

And it was just shipped in a light bubblewrap envelope, little protection considering how the thing probably wouldn't survive much pressure on the sides. Like other reviewers, I'm not impressed with the shipping practices.

I might get another if it were a freebie again, and the shipping & handling weren't outrageous.