Samsung develops 8GB microSD card
Wow, it seems like we were just marveling over the introduction of the world's first 8GB SD card a few moons back. Ah, that's right, we were. Alas, Samsung took it to heart that SD doesn't cut it for your average cellphone (they run a bumpin' mobile business, after all), announcing that it has managed to pack a full eight gigabytes into the microSD form factor for mid-2008 production. That's particularly timely considering that 4GB examples haven't even gotten into widespread circulation yet -- "8GB" just has a nicer ring to it -- not to mention that the new card handily surpasses SDHC guidelines with 16MB/s reads and 6MB/s writes. For the record, a microSD card rocks a little over 20 percent of the surface area of its SD counterpart, so does this mean we can expect 40GB SD cards, like, now? Not quite.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Monica A. Hernandez @ May 17th 2007 8:08AM
What about miniSDs? Are they going to make an 8GB miniSD? Why are micro SD favored? Are they better?
Badonkadonk @ May 17th 2007 12:41PM
You won't see a 40GB SD card possibly ever - the current standard (SD2.0) tops out at 32GB.
Randy @ May 17th 2007 7:34PM
Compared to MiniSD, MicroSD cards are smaller and better suited to cell phones.
MiniSD and (Standard) SD are relegated to Digital Cameras and MP3 players.