I desperately want the new Sony Ericsson P800 phone, but a single obstacle stands in my way: I hate memory sticks.

This has to be the worst form of media. Not only that, but the phone uses the MS Duo format, which is about two times as expensive as SD media. This makes absolutely no sense to me. I can either buy a 128MB MS Duo card (that horrible Magic Gate stuff) for about $80, or I can get a 256MB SD card for $70. I wouldn't mind AS much, but you can't get higher than 128. This is incredibly frustrating, as I don't want to carry around multiple cards for storage, and I definitely don't want to spend so much money on it!

So my questions are:
1) what are your own impressions of MS media? how large do you think they will get in the Duo format?
2) does anyone know of any phones comparable to the P800 coming down the line? This phone would be ideal for me if it weren't for that damn memory stick.