SanDisk intros "Premier" high-speed microSD cards
It's about time high speed sub-SD storage cards came to the market, and SanDisk appears to be leading the way (for now). The ubiquitous memory card manufacturer has introduced the "Mobile Premier" line of mobile-oriented memory storage cards. The new line was announced at CeBIT as SanDisk showed off new 1 and 2 gigabyte microSD cards that can read / write at crazy fast speeds of up to 10 and 9 megabytes, respectively. Although there is no firm date set on when these fast and small beauties will start shipping, the MSRPs will clock in at $44.99 and $69.99. While these capacities are certainly not new in the microSD space, the speeds have us salivating on how fast we can load these MP3 phones with a day or two worth of MP3 playlists.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James Rainey @ Mar 21st 2007 6:20PM
Would we actually see a performance increase for reading/writing to these cards? Aren't we really constrained more by the CPU in all the Smartphones & Devices?
jason @ Mar 21st 2007 10:48PM
Of course the performance of the would speed things along. If putting mp3's on the card less time, taking pictures would be faster, less write time, faster load times from the card etc etc. The card is usually the slowest link on any device.
Badonkadonk @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:36PM
It's all well and good that the card can support 10MBps, but if the controller in your phone will only support 3MBps? what about bandwidth of your processor between USB and the uSD? I seriously doubt these cards will give you much improvement in today's (SD1.10 compliant) devices.
Johan Krüger-Haglert @ May 16th 2007 6:11AM
Same speed as Ultra II, + TrustedFlash DRM shit, just get the Ultra II instead of supporting this shit.